First stroker build 92X82

[VW_Jimbo]

Just wondering. Are you just in a holding pattern, waiting for parts?
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There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but all the time necessary the second time!

[67rustavenger]

Not really in a holding pattern. Just slow at posting.
I set the end plat and installed the PP. Just make sure things line up.
I still need to install the main seal. Picked up the delux seal install tool at Avery's yesterday. Also picked up a used pulley tin and breast plate. So I don't have to swap the ones I have from engine to engine as I change them.

Received my rocker shim kit from ACN and setup the rocker shaft side play to 0.005"
So at this point. The engine is for the most part mechanically complete. I just need to put on the ancillaries. Fill it with oil and fire it off.

I have also been working on a carb refresh for a friends 66. He doesn't know it. But he's gonna get it. I'm also going to hook him up with a 205M distributor to replace his crappy 009.
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GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo!

[VW_Jimbo]

Good to hear progress is still happening!!!

Sounds like next weekend we will read about a start up?!?!?!?!

Glad you posted. I was hoping things were going smooth. That was my concern. Good to read a good post. Thanks for chiming in!
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There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but all the time necessary the second time!

[67rustavenger]

[67rustavenger]

So, I have been a bit cautious with finishing this rebuild.

Someone earlier today posted (in a different thread) that I took over a year to build this engine. And "when the head failed I blamed everyone for the failure. Other than myself."
I did no such thing. I took partial blame for the failure.

The manufacture did indeed offer to honor his warranty. I just didn't take him up on the offer after much arguing with him.
I never returned the heads. As I felt after further consideration that I may have indeed made a build error and ate the cost of a decent set of heads.

My real issue was with the head manufacturers customer service rep. Not the product!

So I had a coworker come over and help lift the engine off the stand onto a dolly. I plan to fire it on the dolly. Hopefully within the next week.
For several reasons,
1.It's easier to see where potential leaks are coming from.
2. It's easier to fix the found leaks. If there are any.
3. Tuning on the dolly will be much less of a headache. I can get to the carb mixture screws. Without getting my hands blistered reaching around hot intake manifolds.
4. I don't plan to install the engine in my car until next spring. The weather is getting colder and the engine was built with "J" tubes.
I can wait. It's been this long. I can wait a little longer, before installing it.

If anyone has an issue with my build. Please feel free to post your gripes here. I'll be happy to address them in this thread.
Don't attack my mechanical skills in other threads when you have none to speak of. (If you're reading along and not skimming. You know that this is focused on you. Not the decent folks that have helped me on this long journey.)

To all that have helped. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You folks are the stuff that makes this a great forum.

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I have learned over the years.
Cheap parts are gonna disappoint you.
Buy Once, Cry Once!

There's never enough time to do it right the first time. But there's always enough time to do it thrice.
GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo!

[Pruneman99]

Man! This like singing 99 bottles of beer, getting to 1, then stopping lol.

Hopefully it goes great when you do fire it.

[67rustavenger]

[Xevin]

I’m in the elusive “365 Club” too
Seriously! Someone called you out on that

Can’t wait to see this in action.
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[sb001]

[sb001]

And in case you're going to go whining to the admins again trying to get my post here deleted, let me remind you and everyone else reading-
YOU linked me to this thread and told me to come over here. SO here I the fuck am. And I am posting again so that all your supporters on here know what actually happened.
I don't really give a crap who they side with, but the FACT is I hadn't said a word TO you, or ABOUT you, but you quoted my post and started shit. Just avoid that and there's no problem! Why is that so hard for you to grasp???????
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1969 autostick sedan, family owned since new
1600 SP engine
Solex 30 PICT 3 carburetor
Bosch 113905205AE autostick distributor

[Brian_e]

[rodeking]

Damn, this is better than politics...

[calvinater]

Almost anything is better than politics
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[rodeking]

not for entertainment

[sb001]

Here's some more entertainment for you: the following is the second (earlier) thread I am referencing above, where he came out of nowhere to attack me:

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...mp;start=0

Another poster (NOT the OP of that thread BTW) commented that his car bucks and jerks when he used regular E10 gas but not when he used ethanol free:

[57BLITZ]

[67rustavenger]

[Clatter]

FWIW,

Since the Carter/CB electric self-regulating pumps have a reputation for eventually failing,
And ethanol (etc.. ) in today's fuels can eat things like you never thought,
I just bought another spare pump for test and run-in use.
No doubt it will have NO trouble lifting fuel up from the ground to a stand..

FWIW, it's claimed 3.5 PSI seemed a bit higher than that on the fuel pressure gauge I bought,
And many carbs will like less than that,
So may a well get a regulator.

If you plan on doing a few more motors,
Might as well dive in..?
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What’s That Noise?!?

[67rustavenger]

Thank you for your input SB001. Duly noted.

I quoted your post to make a point to the folks posting in the thread. It was not directed at you. I likely chose the incorrect wording to make folks understand that the OP was asking about an EV conversion for his beetle. As everyone was telling the OP that it would cost $XXX. Or it would be cheaper to repair his trans.
We all come different walks of life. Some of us are cheap. Some have the funds to do a pie in the sky build.

I was trying to make a point. That it is the OP's car he can do what he wants with it.
It was not an attack on your post. Far from it. Sorry you took it that way.

I had your post deleted. Because you posted that the OP should not take advice from someone who has taken over a year to build an engine and blamed everyone but myself when the first build failed. I'm paraphrasing here, as my memory is not as long as it should be.

Did you stop to think that. Maybe in hindsight. I changed my mind on the Mofoco argument? So I did indeed eat the cost of a set of heads. But really who cares?
And your correct on this. I did give up on returning the heads because Roy was difficult for me to deal with.

Now please take note. Not one person in this forum has come to my defense. Not one in this matter. I asked you to take the fight here. So as not to stall another thread with useless fighting. That has nothing to do with the topic of the thread.
This is my thread. If it gets messed up by a pointless fight. So be it.
It's just not someone else's thread that was posted with the intention of gaining knowledge and insight. Only having it degrade into a war of words.

Have a great day.
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I have learned over the years.
Cheap parts are gonna disappoint you.
Buy Once, Cry Once!

There's never enough time to do it right the first time. But there's always enough time to do it thrice.
GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo!

[Clatter]

I'll stick up for ya..
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Bus Motor Build

What’s That Noise?!?