Repair is possible, although as Gerald points out it
should only be attempted by someone with the proper
equipment/experience to weld magnesium alloys.
I had a case with similar damage once (the car it was
in was rear-ended and the cooler got hit) - just a
tiny crack under the cooler flange that went into the
"out" passage. I used it on a race engine that was
dry-sumped - since it didn't really NEED that passage,
I simply tapped down into the passage and installed a
pipe plug below the crack. You could do the same on a
wet-sump motor too, if you were to full-flow it and
use an external cooler with a thermostatic bypass
valve.
`67 ("H0") cases weren't bad in their day (a damn
sight better'n the `68/`69 "cottage-cheese-alloy") but
after 40 years' service odds are it's not REALLY worth
investing much money in - IMO a later,
large-passage-dual-relief case is a much better
foundation to start with.--- asad ishaque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guys, > > I had recently purchased a 1300 1967 vintage > engine along with the transmission. I got a good > deal so bought the set to keep as a spare. While the > trans would come in handy soon it seems the engine > has had a tragedy. > > A car backed into it while it was lying on a > shop floor where the engine was temporarily stored. > Theres a crack/break under the oil cooler which was > hit. Can see some oil seeping out. Is it at all > possible to weld up/repair a VW case? Local people > tell me some shops specialise in special welds used > for alloys and such. Are these reliable? > > The engine is a very nice clean unit which seems > to have low miles and was being kept as a bolt on > unit ready to go into any one of my current or maybe > future cars. Breaks my heart to note the loss. Hope > it can be mended rather than junking the case and > using all the good parts. > > > Input welcome > > Asad > > Karachi, Pakistan. > _________________________________________________________________ > Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list > with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! > http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us > _______________________________________________ > vintagvw site list > [email protected] > http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
