Guys,
Ahhh...the good old days.
Kirin, I turned my first VW in about 1970. Friend had one that mad bad
noises and then wouldn't start. Went to the bank, borrowed $100.00 and
bought it from him.
Took the engine out, took inside on the kitchen floor and took off one of
the heads...just picked one. Inside #3 cylinder was the infamous
pict carb accelerator pump injection tube(brass thank godness).
Picked it out cleaned up a little and then put it back together.
Tote the engine back out, put in the car and drove the daylights out of it
for several days. Sold it for $350 I think.
Paid the banker off in less than 3 weeks and he was delighted...turned out
I did so much VW business with him he just told me to start having people
draft on him for the cars I bought. This was in the good old days when
you actually knew your banker.
I did a *lot* of that type of fixing. Turns out there was a place over in
Ft. Worth with nothing but wrecked VW's for cheap. Some were not too bad
and could be fixed up in order to make a little money.
My best one was a lateish model KG *convertible*. Fanciest Vw I had been
in up to that point. Top had been ripped pretty badly but amazingly it
was really nice otherwise. Went to the vw junkyard, bought a whole new
top in one piece and just literally bolted it in. I made an
astounding(for the times) $1,000 off of that deal. Astounding cause I
lived in a slum house(while going to college) and was paying $50 a month
for rent. Cost me more for gas to keep it warm than for rent.
Yes, we want to know what was in the cylinder!
Cheers, dave
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019, No Quarter wrote:
Did you ever figure out what or how that piece of hardware made it into your
engine Kirin? So much work for such a simple anomaly.
NQ
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