Dan,
You want to know what I need? Well let me tell you a story
Fifteen years ago I bought a body off restored 1963 beetle. Never ran right,
only put about 1000 miles on her.
Rebuild, I believe Mofoco,1600 cc twin port engine.
Stumbled and overheated, I bought a new Bopar? carb.
Stumbling and overheating continued.
Got married (again) moved to a new house 30 miles down the road and put VW in
carport to be worked on later. Had to stop 1 time due to overheating.
Later became 2 years, bought stuff to make it a stand off lid and tried to tune
the engine. Got it to run but rough, tried time to it and decided to check TDC
on Cyl. 1, very carefully with the old pencil trick. I very carefully, broke
the pencil off. Anyway removed engine took head off and removed stub. Bolted
her up and started again. Got her running, working in the back using remote
start.
Start, stalled over and over again. etc, trying to adjust carb.
Here comes the sad but very funny part. I'm almost 70 years old now and no
longer the sharpest knife in the drawer. A thought hit me, "I wander if the
fuel pump is working properly?" Now I'm trying to white wash, remember that she
was a tough start during this attempt to tune carb? I pulled the fuel line to
the carb. off and decided to turn the motor a couple of turns to see how the
fuel pump functioned. Can you see where I'm going with this?
The engine immediately fired and there I was standing leaned over the engine
with a fuel spewing hose in my hand above a HOT engine. If I would have had
half a brain and not panicked I would have pulled the high tension wire of the
coil but I didn't, I folded the hose instead to stop the flow.
That's all good and dandy but now I'm standing right above a still running
engine with gas having been spewed all over it and can't leave, have to hold
the hose closed don't you know? My partly functioning brain told me "Rudy,
she's gonna catch on fire' and she did.
Still running, my hand had caught on fire and my belly. Luckily all I wore was
a pair of shorts if I had worn a t-shirt I may not have been able to tell the
story.
I ran off a bit, people on fire tend to do this, put out my belly and found a
rag to extinguish me hand.
Remembered that there was an extinguisher and the car and got it, at this time
engine stopped running starved from fuel but engine compartment was burning
brightly.
Pulled the pin on sprayed myself in the face, turned the exst, around and it
didn't work, 15 years is a little old for an ext.
Ran out back and got the water hose and in a manly manner put out the blaze.
Now this is all very embarrassing but the story gets worse. Like I said all I
wore were shorts, no underpants. As I'm running around, on fire, my shorts fell
down to my ankles and there I am, on fire, naked as the day I was born.
Damage was minimal considering.
Left hand one huge blister and a couple of small once on guts.
Paint burned about 10 slats of the air intake and all wiring and rubber parts.
You asked what I needed and that's my story. My back is shot can't work on cars
anymore, hmm, on hind sight that maybe safer.
This story occurred 2 years ago this Sept.I have pics.
Last year replaced the wires, fuel lines still need to be done, engine and
carbs need to be tuned, deck lid needs to be fitted.
Also need a new line from break fluid reservoir to M. cylinder and what ever
else we can find.
I'm not a cheap skate and not looking for free help but would prefer a capable
private person over a professional with hourly rates as they are.
Come one come all.
I'm far better cook than mechanic.
Rudy LI NY
Rudy,
I'm in Nassau County (New Hyde Park) and was just speaking with Sonny at S.M.
Motor Sports. I have been bringing my Porsche 914 to him for years. He has a
lot of experience with Porsche's and VW's, I would recommend him.
What is it that you need done?
Dan
S.M. Motor Sports, Inc. - Bosch Car Service
Address: 140 Lakeville Rd, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Phone: (516) 775-8655
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:46 AM, 'Rudolph Dehoogh' via VintagVW - Air Cooled
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<<<Dean, do live any where near NYC? I would be happy to help>>>
Daniel,
I live in Shirley Long Island. I'm in need of a bug mechanic.
Know anybody?
Rudy LI NY
On May 26, 2015, at 9:36 PM, Dean Johnson <
[email protected]> wrote:
I read the How to hot rod instructions and couldn't make sense of them
'Adjust the push rod so that it fits...' Not helpful and I don't have any idea
what centerlines they're talking about and what does it mean for two lines to
'coincide'? Not at all helpful.
Still looking for instructions with visuals.
On May 25, 2015 9:29 PM, "Dave C. Bolen" <
[email protected]> wrote:
Guys,
Your good old copy of "How to hot rod vw's" has excellent instructions on
this.
Although...if you have stock rocker arms and stock pushrods they really should
be close. Oh, stroked engine?
Cheers, dave
On Mon, 25 May 2015, Daniel Moy wrote:
When I did mine I made an adjustable push rod out of a stock rod. Basically
cut one in half, trim down then cut some threads
and insert threaded rod with two locking nuts.
Install the head torqued to spec. Do not install the push rods or push rod
tubes.
Install your adjustable push rod and your rockers with some spacers to account
for the swivel feet and lash caps (these are a
good idea as the provide a larger surface area for the swivel feet), check the
geometry, there should be no binding when
cycling the engine. If there is binding make the push rod shorter.
Check the adjusted rod in a few locations particularly the other side of the
engine.
If all is well then you now have a properly sized push rod, now you need to
make eight solid push rods. I purchased mine from
gene berg back in the day. Chrome moly, cut them to length and pushed in the
ends.
It's been a while but I believe those are the steps.
On May 25, 2015, at 8:39 PM, Dean Johnson <
[email protected]> wrote:
I re-read the info from the machine shop. He thinks the original engine
builder, Strictly Foreign, didn't set up the
push rod length at all and that I need to do this. That makes sense as
they are way off. So who has a good
description of measuring proper pushrod length?
BTW. RISMachine did the head work.
On May 26, 2015 4:13 AM, "Dean Johnson" <
[email protected]> wrote:
No, stock rockers.
On May 25, 2015 5:32 PM, "Daniel Moy" <
[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Dean,
Did you have ratio rocker arms, if so did you size the push rods?
Dan
On May 25, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Dean Johnson <
[email protected]> wrote:
I am finally installing my rebuilt heads into my 1915 cc engine. I have
the heads on, put in the
push rods and am test fitting the rocker arms to check geometry.I put
the shims that had been
installed under the shafts originally and there is not nearly enough
room for the swivel foot
adjusters. Even screwed all the way out, they nearly touch the stems. If
I use a thicker shim I am
afraid I won't have enough threads for the rocker arm nuts. ( can I back
the studs out?) will
standard adjusters give me more adjustment? Where is the best graphical
description of adjusting
the geometry? I don't have a dial indicator so if there is another way
to do it, that'd be great.
Dean
'71 Super Beetle
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