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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:29 pm    Post subject: Is this even remotely possible? (pic inside) Reply with quote

Is it at all possible to install the front firewall tin (#23) in a '69 Std. Beetle with out removing the engine?

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

...you could pull the body off first... Razz
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've actually seen it done.

Personally i'd drop the engine first. And you don't even have to take it out from under the car.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

On a non doghouse earlier style it is a bear but possible... not saying it could not be done with doghouse tin but man... Like Glenn says you will actually save time and knuckles/skin just dropping the engine out and down...
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the quick replies, guys. It looks like I'll be dropping the engine. I can use this opportunity to repair the leaky oil cooler, too.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you try it with the engine in the car, it will be helpful to have fingers like a skeleton!
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Geeeez Remove the shroud, the carb(s) etc ....FIX the cooler leak AND install the plate(#23). Reassemble it all. Since its screwed in place to the cylinder tins at the backside. And rests over the joint of engine case and tranny....A LOT easier and faster than yanking it all out in my book, especially if its a doghouse cooler.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do the job on the trolley jack, half take it out..
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DrvwStevo wrote:
....A LOT easier and faster than yanking it all out in my book, especially if its a doghouse cooler.

Good Luck


it takes less time to drop the engine...especially if you've ever tried to just whip off the shroud(doghouse) with an actual full cooling system...meaning all thermostat and "flaps" assembly with crossrod... quicker to drop the engine then remove the shroud than to do it in the car.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

duhhhh too true buginva, I forgot about the cooling flaps and rods. Since I never ran with them (20 years ago)
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