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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:18 pm Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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Yes sir & thanks!! I know it’s an I’ll conceived pairing but… I’m an idiot that wants to get it running & will deal with the failures when they fall. My only hope to prolong its impending doom is to hamstring the torque of the engine & my desire to play with it by retaining the stock clutch…. Yeah, let the amusement & simultaneous disdain begin.
Instead of dumping thousands of dollars acquiring shit that I may or may not use, ima gonna use what I got & roll it until…. I sell it, move on to something else (yep, I have the attention span off a goldfish.), or it gets wrecked (which is a close second to that attention span thing. (I have lost 18 cars due to accidents caused by other drivers).
Besides, who doesn’t love getting to say “I told you so!”? Hell, y’all should start a side bet as to how long it actually stays together, if it gets together, and then whether it gets sold or wrecked first.
Hell, you’d think that I would have been the one to total the Ghiapet but no, that too was taken out by some dipshit strung out on “energy drinks”.
I shit you not, that dumb ass started apologizing for backing into me & I hit record on my phone. He actually told me the he was on the way to a store “looking for them Monster low carb energy drinks, I been to three stores already…”. Jesus fu%*#g Christ, he’s twenty fu%*#g years old, he’s gonna need to spike them with meth by the time he’s 30.
Y’all won’t believe this
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vwwestyman Samba Member
Joined: April 24, 2004 Posts: 5688 Location: Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:39 pm Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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I guess I did inspire you!
I saw you'd posted a couple pics in the gallery yesterday and came to look for a thread.
Have fun! And start planning for another transmission!
One thing to think about a little bit, is will you need to redo mounts you've build to reposition the engine or anything when you blow that thing up and decide to replace it with an 091? _________________ Dave Cook
President, Wild Westerner Club
1978 Champagne Edition Westy, repowered to '97 Jetta TDI
1973 Wild Westerner
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Stevo_L Samba Member
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:30 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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vwwestyman wrote: |
One thing to think about a little bit, is will you need to redo mounts you've build to reposition the engine or anything when you blow that thing up and decide to replace it with an 091? |
Eh, more like pushed me over the ledge.
I am hanging the engine where it needs to be to clear the fuel tank, this means that the transmission gets pushed back 3”-4”. Plenty of room for other transmission options later.
Huh, I guess someone does make a conversion.
But where is the fun in that?
I build shit (literally in some people’s opinion) & share it here to show that, with a bit of ingenuity, people can still build these on a budget.
That being said, here comes the mount…
With the jig made, I started clamping select pieces of scrap steel to the mounting points & then filled in the voids with more scrap. Once it was tacked together, I then drilled through the holes in the jig to copy the original mount. (And forgot to take pics along the way.)
However, once I welded it together, I removed the bracket & laid it on a piece of hobby steel sourced from a hardware store & scribed the profile of the bracket onto it.
After carving it out, I then fused it to the bracket to be.
Here is the profile of the original mount compared to the new one.
The biggest hurdle of this bracket is the fact that the oil dipstick tube wants to be in the same space.
So I decided to coax it out of the block…
I then drilled a couple holes in the bracket & trimmed out the space in between.
The dipstick tube was still a bit wider at the ends to fit through the bracket so I opened up the slot in the bracket as much as possible, & still look decent, and then trimmed the flange on the tube ever so slightly.
And slipped it through.
With that done, I bolted the bracket up & slipped the dipstick tube into place.
Now that I know that it works, I continued paring it down.
Who doesn’t love them some speed holes? _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 11:41 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 12:01 pm Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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So, onto the driver side bracket, er… ummm… passenger side bracket…. Ahh WTF ever, the passenger side bracket that is now on the driver side since the engine is turned around.
Anyway, I shnagged the other mount bracket off of the Passat BHW engine & tried fitting it but the ALH turbo was all up in the way.
The green circle shows where the lower bolt hole on the bracket is & the blue circle shows where it needs to be, there just ain’t no way that it’s gonna work.
So the only reasonable option is to lose the turbo all together, it'll still have more power than the bus did stock.
JUST KIDDING!!!
I also pilfered the turbocharger & exhaust manifold from the Passat, here it is next to the ALH turbo.
I then bolted it, and the mount bracket, to the ALH engine.
Man that Jetta mount looks like shit in there…
Let’s lose that.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
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Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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jakokombi Samba Member
Joined: August 15, 2010 Posts: 779 Location: Milwaukee
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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"JUST KIDDING!!!"
You got me, I actually said WTF! to the screen.
Nice work! _________________ 70 Sunroof Kombi
85 Motherfukinvanagon
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 9:39 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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So… before I get any further mounting this lump in the beast, I decided to continue with an engine that was going to be a bit more permanent. However, good ALH engines are pretty popular lately & I have installed four of them in customer cars in the last 3-4 weeks.
While I have several good ones laying around, Ima gonna build a mutt motor out of the usable shit that I have laying around, this is likely to trigger gag reflexes & repulse, well… damn near everyone.
I started with a short block out of a 2003 & bolted a head that was in the trunk of another car to it. It had been in there a while so the cam lobes had flash rusted.
So I buffed them off with some emery cloth…
I then hosed it all down with some brake clean & drizzled some assembly lube over the cam lobes…
And walked it through.
Once done with that, I locked the cam at TDC & tossed the valve cover back on. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:31 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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I continued to assemble the mutt motor as a few missing bits & pieces arrive. The first to get installed was a pilot bearing. True to VW nature, this bearing’s compatibility spans at least five decades, I ordered this one for a 2006 Jetta with a DSG transmission.
And stuffed it into the crank using a socket as a drift.
Next up was to swap the Golf/Jetta oil pan with one for a 2002 1.8t Passat, this also requires the matching oil pump pickup tube.
So off with the old…
And in with the Passat one.
After reinstalling the windage tray, I applied a bead of sealant to the pan…
And gave it a quick schmear…
And it was off to the races to get the pan on & tightened before the sealant cured, here it is mated with the engine.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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Alan Brase Samba Member
Joined: March 28, 2004 Posts: 4532 Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:00 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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skills@eurocarsplus wrote: |
you may want to reach out to dave cook and talk transmission longevity on these things.
his ate itself in short order, as did many others with a diseasel hammering thru one of those transmixers |
Upvote for content and also for the "diseasel" in context. _________________ Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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Meanwhile, back at the Nofucksgiven Garage, I forged ahead in my quest to assemble a rolling grenade that’s sure to annihilate small towns with the first release of the clutch pedal.
Today’s task was to modify the coolant distribution pipe. Ideally, I would have sourced one from a manual transmission car but all of the current scrap engines are from automatic cars (since the automatic transmissions are the weak link.).
This tube juts out right where the front engine seal/fuel tank shelf is, and since I try to not cut up the body, I need to modify this.
So I removed the distribution pipe…
And lopped this little bastard off.
I then pared a section off the tube that was removed.
And fused it to the pipe.
After checking that it was water tight, I shot it with some paint.
And bolted it in place.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:22 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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This morning I transferred the adapter plate & flywheel to the mutt motor.
With those attached, I liberated the clutch from the engine out of the Ghiapet.
With right at 50,000 miles on it, it was not quite completely broken in. There’s still just a bit that has not been worn enough to make contact.
Anyway, I then hung the transmission off the end.
Since the gas tank goes in first, I needed to make the necessary modifications to it before putting it all in place. The diesel needs a bit more flow than the original outlet would allow so I removed the tap & the filter sock. Fortunately, since the bung in the tank is is larger to accommodate the filter sock, it is just the perfect size to house a larger tap. I sourced a 1/2” “Sharkbite” brass fitting from a local hardware store that has this convenient little flange on it & slipped it into the bung.
Now, the only modification to the outlet is the need to hog out the retaining nut.
With the nut opened up to the correct size, I slipped it over the brass fitting & tossed an aluminum crush washer over the other end…
And tightened it up.
Now I just have to concoct a return line… _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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Alan Brase Samba Member
Joined: March 28, 2004 Posts: 4532 Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:16 pm Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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Just discovered this and I like your style. Fabricating is different for every single person and I think I might learn from you.
Having said that, I disagree with the fuel tank outlet. (Not the sock. I think the filter should be OUTSIDE the tank) But I feel that 8mm hose will pipe enough DIESEL fuel to move any bus 95mph. Ever see how big the hole in a banjo bolt is? Also, my brand new from Giles AAZ pump has a 8mm hose barb. (not sure the TDI pump size tho. _________________ Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:40 pm Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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Alan Brase wrote: |
Just discovered this and I like your style. Fabricating is different for every single person and I think I might learn from you. |
Thank you. However, you’d probably be best off learning what NOT to do.
Alan Brase wrote: |
Having said that, I disagree with the fuel tank outlet. (Not the sock. I think the filter should be OUTSIDE the tank) But I feel that 8mm hose will pipe enough DIESEL fuel to move any bus 95mph. Ever see how big the hole in a banjo bolt is? Also, my brand new from Giles AAZ pump has a 8mm hose barb. (not sure the TDI pump size tho. |
I believe that the stock early Bus hose is 5mm or 5.5mm, the ID of the original tap on the tank is closer to 4mm, THAT is why I opted to find a larger tap. The fitting I used is made to fit a hose ID of 1/2” which means that the OD is just a bit larger than 1/2”, the ID is closer to 3/8”, which is still more than enough. The only reason that I went this large is due to the fact that it fits into the bung but the flange on it is larger than the ID of the bung, giving it a sealing surface. I can step the hose ID down from there.
Yes, I have seen, literally, thousands of banjo bolts, and while the passages in them are smaller than the ID of the hose attached to them, there are multiple holes.
Just for future reference…
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:48 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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Just for shits & giggles, I pulled out my redneck bore gauges…
Nope, not .40 (or 10mm) ID.
Yup, looks like my 3/8” guesstimate was purty close. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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crownline Samba Member
Joined: September 10, 2010 Posts: 593 Location: Northwoods of WI
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:59 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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Hope that is a blank casing _________________ 1972 Bus 1700 cc Single Carb. But not a progressive.
Barelymuvin
Wish I still had the ones I got rid of.
"It"s got some dings and dents and neither of us is going to SEMA."(Update, I went to SEMA in 2019 but the Bus stayed home)
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:04 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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crownline wrote: |
Hope that is a blank casing |
Now why in the hell would one keep blanks in a mag?!?
Ain’t no strikes on them primer caps. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
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crownline Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:28 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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Well the proper way to test that tank is put a little gas in it and strike that cap. :2gunfire: _________________ 1972 Bus 1700 cc Single Carb. But not a progressive.
Barelymuvin
Wish I still had the ones I got rid of.
"It"s got some dings and dents and neither of us is going to SEMA."(Update, I went to SEMA in 2019 but the Bus stayed home)
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Alan Brase Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:46 am Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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crownline wrote: |
Well the proper way to test that tank is put a little gas in it and strike that cap. :2gunfire: |
Might want to use some PPE. the brass schrpnel would kill you. Slug would be tight in the sharkbite.
But it's a diesel tank now...
Just make sure we're on the same page here.
Diesels are the only OLD VW's that use banjo bolt connects. _________________ Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 1:15 pm Post subject: Re: Holey Cannoli |
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Alan Brase wrote: |
But it's a diesel tank now...
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But if we mix in some fertilizer….
crownline wrote: |
Well the proper way to test that tank is put a little gas in it and strike that cap. :2gunfire: |
Tell you what, I’ll set it up, you can come pop the cap. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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