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chazz79 Samba Member
Joined: August 15, 2008 Posts: 2268 Location: ohio
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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Good deal,
No baseball, softball or anything else tonight so I had time to slide the engine/trans up in it. The thing fit like a glove! I just had to remove a notch from the bell housing bridge area near the thermostat housing to get the engine to rest level.
You could avoid cutting by using a 1.9 wbx cooling system but then you can't use the easy to find a/c parts and the whole works becomes a cluster. But anyone wanting to go an easily reversed water cooled setup could slot one of these in cheap.
I re-used the side brackets I fabbed up for the for swap just flipped them over to compensate for the wider vanagon bar. Weird thing is everything lined up! I just have one hole to drill per side and it's mounted just as solid as it would be in a vanagon. I spent an hour on it today including crudely hacking out the offending crossmember chunk and there she be.
So I'm pretty happy with the fit and the work room compared to the cramped space I had to work with before. I'll be able to get right down to wiring and plumbing. This will be the most non-swap "swap" possible.
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tristessa Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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chazz79 wrote: |
No bus=crap summer |
Ain't that the truth.
No idea what the "good" boots are anymore .. for a while word was that Rockford made good ones, but I haven't heard their name in some time.
I'll still see what they've got at Osahankinta in Turku, maybe bring home a few sets if something looks promising. Unlike booze, CV boots can go in the carry-on. |
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chazz79 Samba Member
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tristessa Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 8:10 am Post subject: |
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Chazz, how soon do you need boots? I'm flying to Finland on the 18th, and there's a good-sized auto parts store not far from one of my hotels .. that I was already planning to check out. |
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chazz79 Samba Member
Joined: August 15, 2008 Posts: 2268 Location: ohio
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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No clamps at all.
If you look at the clamp collar those are completely rotten. They've been cracked since a year on so I knew they'd be torn soon enough.
The range of motion on these joints is so minimal that they should last forever!
The rubber is just substandard for the application.
You can get crap in a Meyle, lobro, and empi box so who do we go to now?
Boxes are apparently worthless as far as determining quality anymore because they tend to put whatever piece of crap they want in it. Your empis were good but who's to say the empis I order will be the same? It's a total f'n crapshoot no one knows if they got good stuff until a year later...by then that box might've changed suppliers.
I'm down for paying good money on boots made in Germany or on this continent so this is the last time I have to do this. _________________ One day as a lion, or a lifetime as lamb
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airschooled Air-Schooled
Joined: April 04, 2012 Posts: 12728 Location: on a bike ride somewhere
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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tristessa wrote: |
asiab3 wrote: |
Did you use clamps on the boots? |
^^ what he said ^^
I'm at 10 years/60k miles on the EMPI boots, still with no cracks, and I never clamped the boot to the axle. The clamp is on the boot, but not clamped down |
I'm at 2 years and 25k with them. The clamps do not allow the rubber to flex and form on their own. Clamping them down pulls and pushes the rubber unnecessarily every wheel rpm. _________________ Learn how your vintage VW works. And why it doesn't!
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tristessa Samba Member
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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asiab3 wrote: |
Did you use clamps on the boots? |
^^ what he said ^^
I'm at 10 years/60k miles on the EMPI boots, still with no cracks, and I never clamped the boot to the axle. The clamp is on the boot, but not clamped down |
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airschooled Air-Schooled
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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dugfresh wrote: |
chazz79 wrote: |
Here's these crap boots. They were lobros I'm getting tired of the questionable quality stuff. Cv boots are a garbage job to do once. I hate having to do them again less than four years and 2000 miles later.
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I installed EMPI chinese under a year ago and one of them is ripped. The other side presumably were installed in 05 and still kicking. I too am not looking forward to another CV refresh. Tho my supplier has better then the chinese this time... |
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dugfresh Samba Member
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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chazz79 wrote: |
Here's these crap boots. They were lobros I'm getting tired of the questionable quality stuff. Cv boots are a garbage job to do once. I hate having to do them again less than four years and 2000 miles later.
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I installed EMPI chinese under a year ago and one of them is ripped. The other side presumably were installed in 05 and still kicking. I too am not looking forward to another CV refresh. Tho my supplier has better then the chinese this time... _________________ 78 Riviera
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chazz79 Samba Member
Joined: August 15, 2008 Posts: 2268 Location: ohio
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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2.3 is out. Everything is way crustier and more a pain in the butt than I remember but it's done.
I removed the center mount bridge finally and re-routed the throttle cable. The Wbx seems to need the cable in the same location as the 1.7 t4 and it looks like the stock cable end will fit this throttle body. It's looking pretty positive...like this will scoot right along.
The engine is a complete drop out from a vanagon that was receiving a conversion. I gave 350.00 and it's as complete as you see here (clutch to exhaust, trans and starter are the ones from the monster). I have ecu's wiring etc from my vanagon experimentation phase so I'm good there.
So no adaptors, no bs just some boring 'ol factory stuff. I'm getting 92-ish horsepower and fuel injection. I'll also be getting back the vw flat four sound as a side bonus.
Here's these crap boots. They were lobros I'm getting tired of the questionable quality stuff. Cv boots are a garbage job to do once. I hate having to do them again less than four years and 2000 miles later.
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chazz79 Samba Member
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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Good, bad, and otherwise updates are updates.
I haven't driven it since before Christmas. My flywheel is missing half the teeth it started with so since @ October I had to pop start it everywhere it went. I'm pretty sure the kit I got off Craigslist so long ago might've been a 6v set up. Who knows? I did have a good deal of trouble eating oem style rebuild starters. I had to buy a high dollar IMI starter and it gave the big FU to the flywheel.
Starter is still good though, one tough mofo.
The new cv boots I installed disintegrated in less than three years use. They're dry rotten Chinese garbage. I have to remember which ones I got from bd so I don't buy junk again.
I've come to the realization that you just can't occasionally use a carbureted engine anymore, at least not a Holley. My new 390 cfm had to come apart anytime the bus sat more than two months. If the fuel evaporates it'll corrode any uncoated aluminum inside the carb...particularly the accelerator squirter check would seize giving me a hour pre-season tear down ritual to go through every time I forgot to occasionally start it through winter. No ford factory fuel injection will work without a custom intake manifold due to space constraints. I want turn key simplicity but there's just not a simple answer from where I am.
2.3 is almost on the ground.
2.1 wbx and digifant going in. I hope to get some good local use out of this used engine I found then use it as a core for a rocky Jennings rebuild once I have all the bugs worked out. _________________ One day as a lion, or a lifetime as lamb
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BusJunky Samba Member
Joined: February 27, 2009 Posts: 568 Location: Norwalk, ohio
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avocado_tom Samba Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:29 am Post subject: |
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chazz79 wrote: |
No, those hose barbs protrude under that plate @ 2". The scoop hangs way lower so it's not a bg deal. |
Cool, thanks! |
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chazz79 Samba Member
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avocado_tom Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:03 am Post subject: |
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chazz79 wrote: |
Pictures pictures pictures. I'm modifying the radiator pan to accept an a3 golf manual trans radiator. This radiator is physically smaller but being a dual pass radiator this puts both inlet and outlet back closer to the engine. This elimiates a few connections and cleans the mess up a bit.
^^^^^holes cut for inlet and outlet pass throughs^^^^^^
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Did you have to cut down the inlet and outlets from the radiator to get clearance? Or does it sit low enough that it's not a concern? |
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chazz79 Samba Member
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Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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I use a hobart handler 110v unit. Whatever you use make sure it isn't a flux core welder. Stay away from anything Chinese.
More metal work is coming in the way of a full sized engine hatch and a few other doo dads so I'm not done tinkering yet _________________ One day as a lion, or a lifetime as lamb
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jol_bk Samba Member
Joined: August 25, 2013 Posts: 6 Location: Joliet, IL
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Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 8:33 pm Post subject: dogleg install |
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chazz79 wrote: |
I got this bastard dogleg fitted. I don't have experience with anything but this klockerholm peice but I'd hoped for the 135.00 I have invested in it that it'd fit a heck of alot better. Fitting involved severe amounts of trimming and alot of hammer & dolly work to get it to look right. My bus has no signs of accident damage so I really didn't think it would be that rough of a job. I have to do the other side but since it's not as bad I'm just doing a skin. I also have a couple rockers and rear wheel arch patches coming.
Lots of plug welds to grind down, overall door gap is @3/8 inch where it was once 1/4....Consistant gaps are imposible with these. I'll gladly try mexican parts on my next bus.
Now in green on green on blue on brown on black on white. That's a color scheme the neighborhood society can appreciate. |
Nice work on that dog leg, I have similar work to do on my transporter.
I hope I can do as well. What kind of welder did you use? _________________ “Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments . . . ”
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chazz79 Samba Member
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:05 am Post subject: |
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With that space opened up you can use the same radiator I did. The inlet and outlet would both face rearward. In that orientation the drain petcock could be used to bleed the air out too.
I'm using two vanagon rear heaters. One will be placed in a stock location under the rear seat just blowing out into the rear area. The other heater will be under my jump seat and plumbed to blow backwards through the walkthrough so alk my dash stuff will work as intended.
When using the vanagon stuff count on the cores being crap. Vanagon folks trash these units to gain some more under seat storage space once they quit working. I'm in need of two cores (80.00) and one blower motor (65.00) so its not a cheap venture. While you nasty get the units free, they really aren't free. _________________ One day as a lion, or a lifetime as lamb
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69satellite Samba Member
Joined: January 14, 2008 Posts: 208 Location: Kerrville, TX
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:30 am Post subject: |
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man i figured you would have had a heater in it by now, why else go watercooled . I'm planning on doing a heater in the back and one in the front. Going to put one under the rear seat, haven't decided on where to put the one in the front. Since I'm putting my rad up front. Thinking something like this for mine. Probably get a rear one from either a conversion van or a vanagon, either way something from the junkyard since I'm cheap
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chazz79 Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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I've been driving the wheels off it. Lots of power and I'm getting nearly 20mpg around town. As far as low tech swaps go, this ones the ticket. I had fully intended to have it parked by now to address some issues but I gotta drive it. My dd vanagon crapped the bed and hopefully by christmas I'll have it back together.
The one irritating thing is a lack of heat but it is a great feeling to know that when I need it the monster will deliver and get my sorry but to work on time.
The first thing I'm doing is furnace work. The heater will be under the jumpseat and plumbed to blow air backwards through the walkthrough vent so the dash controls will function as stock. _________________ One day as a lion, or a lifetime as lamb
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