My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration)

[Spike0180]

oh wow, I wasn't even looking at that. Good catch busdaddy, thanks.
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Brutis Patches Izabich: 1970 VW Transporter - 1776cc DP
Current State: Projects never truly end...
Location: Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Other cars: 2003 F150, 2003 Jetta GLI vr6-6sp

Sambastic: adj; the quality of being nit picky, elitist, expecting everyone to do things the way they believe is best with no regard to situation, "sambastic"

[Ry-dog]

Here is a good photo of a mexican doghouse fan shroud at the interface with the oil cooler. Note the area where the sheet metal is very close to/touching the side of the oil cooler (that is the section of the hoover bit that gets cut off). The other area where you see the two bolt/nuts (for attaching to the adapter) is where I saw a need for the 'partial' hoover bit.

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'70 Westy
'14 Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel

[Spike0180]

I just checked and I don't think I have a Mexican doghouse fan shroud. Too bad. Although I cant find the part number or any stamping on my fan shroud. Though it does appear to be a repaint.
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Brutis Patches Izabich: 1970 VW Transporter - 1776cc DP
Current State: Projects never truly end...
Location: Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Other cars: 2003 F150, 2003 Jetta GLI vr6-6sp

Sambastic: adj; the quality of being nit picky, elitist, expecting everyone to do things the way they believe is best with no regard to situation, "sambastic"

[Ry-dog]

My mexican fan shroud did not have any stampings. Only a VW decal that stated it was 'Made in Mexico'.
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'70 Westy
'14 Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel

[Spike0180]

Welp, I had a little more time this weekend to work on Brutis.

Findings:
1: Oil cooler mount bolts were loose, and seals were covered in oil. I cleaned and tightened those up with some loc-tite. Hopefully this time they stay nice and tight.

2: I cleaned stuff up... took a while... still plenty of that to do.

3: Pulled plugs and found #3 was running lean, # 4 was a little rich, and 1-2 were looking maybe a smidge lean, but even and I'm pretty happy with those.

#1 is closest (right side of photo), # 4 is furthest (left side of photo)

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Brutis Patches Izabich: 1970 VW Transporter - 1776cc DP
Current State: Projects never truly end...
Location: Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Other cars: 2003 F150, 2003 Jetta GLI vr6-6sp

Sambastic: adj; the quality of being nit picky, elitist, expecting everyone to do things the way they believe is best with no regard to situation, "sambastic"

[Spike0180]

I got some time to work this weekend. First thing, I got a full Hoover but installed. I did need one. So asiab3, thank you. And my fan was messed up. I got a new one of those too. I opened up my alternator because I had to get my pulley off and I noticed it wasn't spinning freely, I found my bearing destroyed! Half the bearings were in about half with flat spots all over and the others were missing. I'll post a picture of that later this week if I can get a good picture. So my current theory is that the alternator bearing failed, seized, them the fan belt ripped up and gave in. So I also got another alternator. And the lesson learned here is that cheap alternators suck. Dont buy them. Lol

I'm also replacing the oil line to my oil filter with the proper line, which I recently found out was fuel vapor line

A picture of the Hoover bit:

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Brutis Patches Izabich: 1970 VW Transporter - 1776cc DP
Current State: Projects never truly end...
Location: Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Other cars: 2003 F150, 2003 Jetta GLI vr6-6sp

Sambastic: adj; the quality of being nit picky, elitist, expecting everyone to do things the way they believe is best with no regard to situation, "sambastic"

[Spike0180]

A picture of just how many bearings were toasted. About half were missing, and you can see the remnants of a bearing there and two of the bearings have completely flat spots of them.

(The rust is flash rust from sitting outside the last couple nights. Although that bearing was dry come to think of it... probably why it failed... hmm)

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Brutis Patches Izabich: 1970 VW Transporter - 1776cc DP
Current State: Projects never truly end...
Location: Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Other cars: 2003 F150, 2003 Jetta GLI vr6-6sp

Sambastic: adj; the quality of being nit picky, elitist, expecting everyone to do things the way they believe is best with no regard to situation, "sambastic"

[Spike0180]

Progress was made today. I got my carbs put back on (I didnt get to upgrade the linkage in any way like I wanted to), fuel lines hooked up, valves adjusted (cycle exhaust was a little tight after losing the belt but nothing major), thermostat adjusted and reinstalled, lower cylinder tins reinstalled, front tin reinstalled and cover plates "fabricated" and installed, and installed and adjusted the fan belt. The only thing left to do outside of putting it back in the van is the rear main seal.

Pictures of the front "fabricated" tin plates. They're pretty emberrasingly bad. But they'll keep the air out.

Oh and It was pointed out to me that one of my oil oines was a fuel vapor line, so that got replaced. The lower oil line there is the new one.

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Brutis Patches Izabich: 1970 VW Transporter - 1776cc DP
Current State: Projects never truly end...
Location: Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Other cars: 2003 F150, 2003 Jetta GLI vr6-6sp

Sambastic: adj; the quality of being nit picky, elitist, expecting everyone to do things the way they believe is best with no regard to situation, "sambastic"

[airschooled]

Looking good!

That alternator bearing is amazing; I’m surprised it even rotated!

Robbie
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[Spike0180]

[Spike0180]

Its finally getting warm! And my engine is still on the floor! Its killing me. But the last weekend in April this thing will be all system go.

In the mean time, jack_o_trades hooked me up with the rear hatch torsion bar isolators. They're good quality. Seems to be very similar rubber, though my old one was pretty rock hard. He was very timely, with good communication as well. I believe he is selling them now. But here are some pictures.

The new ones:

And the old one(s) lol
dont act like you're not impressed.

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Brutis Patches Izabich: 1970 VW Transporter - 1776cc DP
Current State: Projects never truly end...
Location: Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Other cars: 2003 F150, 2003 Jetta GLI vr6-6sp

Sambastic: adj; the quality of being nit picky, elitist, expecting everyone to do things the way they believe is best with no regard to situation, "sambastic"

[Spike0180]

Update time. Last weekend I had some time to get stuff done. Wheelie Pete came over and lend a hand as well. We popped off the flywheel to inspect for oil leaks and found that gallery plug was flopping around loose like a flag in the wind. So we drained the oil, used a torch to clean up the residual oil, cleaned up the face of the case and everything else around. And applied some high heat gasket maker goop to stop the leak. The jury is still out on if this fixed the leak coming from behind the flywheel.

Next we slapped the engine back in. Went it smooth, took about an hour or two to get it lined up, and get all the obnoxious bolts that I cant really reach behind the fan shroud. Plumbed it all up, and waited for the gasket maker to cure. So 48hrs later (12-24 was recommended, but its a little cold and my wife had the key. So I waited.) I went to start it up. … and again... and again... no luck. I've got no boom boom boom boom (one "boom" per cylinder). I did a very small amount of investigating. I checked for spark at the coil. Check. I checked for a crimped fuel line, looks alright. So I'm waiting to do more investigating when I get time and hopefully a helping hand to crank the engine with the key.

And obviously I had to add this crappy nighttime phone picture to prove it is indeed in the van.

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Brutis Patches Izabich: 1970 VW Transporter - 1776cc DP
Current State: Projects never truly end...
Location: Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Other cars: 2003 F150, 2003 Jetta GLI vr6-6sp

Sambastic: adj; the quality of being nit picky, elitist, expecting everyone to do things the way they believe is best with no regard to situation, "sambastic"

[ccpalmer]

Might just need more cranking to get fuel built up again. Did you use Stabil over the winter? Fuel coming out of the accel. pump?

Mine started up nicely today after a few cranks. Yahoo!
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'71 Westy

[Spike0180]

[ccpalmer]

[Spike0180]

[airschooled]

Every car is a show car if you’re proud of it! Especially since you’ve done so much work yourself!!
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[Spike0180]

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[airschooled]