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earlesurfs
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 Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 5:21 am Post subject: New AS41 case review |
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| Are they as good as the original cases? |
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jeffrey8164
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:45 pm Post subject: Re: New AS41 case review |
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As good as original? Can’t say. I believe they’re made with the same tooling.
I built a 2276 out of one and it hasn’t failed.
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Dusty1
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: New AS41 case review |
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https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=798244
Post- "Supply Chain Issues" I saw cases that I believe were originally segregated for re- work or scrap. Very rough castings. Not pretty at all. It's as if they tried to shove them through the process so quickly they opened the molds before the magnesium cooled.
There is also a rumor circulating that while some cases are molded in modified original molds the oil passages are drilled to old single relief specs, that is to say some cases have smaller oil passages than German or Mexican production.
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dubman67
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: New AS41 case review |
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I need to measure my Motorav case, but it looks like the oil pick up is 9/16". So, yeah H case oiling.
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john7
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2025 9:41 pm Post subject: Re: New AS41 case review |
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| I need to measure my Motorav case, but it looks like the oil pick up is 9/16". So, yeah H case oiling. |
Brazilian cases have always been 9/16 size for 50 years except for a very small production run in early 2000s that had the large 19mm pickup. Doesn’t matter if they were branded Volkswagen or motorav, they were all cast by motorav
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heimlich 
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2025 12:20 pm Post subject: Re: New AS41 case review |
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In Brazil, VW was required to make parts for 20 years after they stopped producing the cars. Around 2020 that was the end. What I saw from suppliers was dumping of VW produced parts onto the market to sell them quick. VW Then sold off the tooling for those parts. Motorav was the company who had the mold and tooling to make the VW cases. They took the old molds/dies and put their name on them. It's a VW case with the Motorav name on it now.
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