Time lapse VW bug engine teardown and rebuild

[Tom]

 Interesting to watch.  About 6 minutes long.  Scroll down for the link.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a13995198/beetle-engine-rebuild-timelapse/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=120117

[Markcarovilli]

Very cool - had one of those in my youth.....

Mark

[Guzzi Gal]

 :1: Gotta love a bug!  My parents drove an old convertible from Cali to Ohio my first winter.  Lib (my mom) told me once we were lucky to have not frozen to death.  Later, Lib drove us from San Fran to Anchorage in a VW campervan to visit Vern, my birthfather, when he was working the crab boats in the early 70's.  I remember the thing backfired every few minutes, but it made it there, and back.  We also took the van from SF to Mexico around the same time.  Apparently, my diaper was a good place to smuggle "goodies".  

Lib ( kind of) settled down when she remarried in '77.  You could say I had an interesting childhood.   

[radguzzi]

Cool video...

I have been "Restoring" this '69 VeeDub for longer that I care to publically admit. 

Bought it from the original owner that purchased the car new in Nov of 1968.  We have gone through body, heater channels, paint, the latest thing I have done recently is the complete interior, all new and it looks awesome, well it will when it is all installed... lol  New head liner, all glass seals etc.

Last year I installed dropped front spindles with disc brakes.  THis lowered the front for a better stance, in my opinion.

I need to bolt up the bumpers and running boards, whip a good tune on it and let it sit until Spring... :)

[Gliderjohn]

From Guzzi Gal:

We also took the van from SF to Mexico around the same time.  Apparently, my diaper was a good place to smuggle "goodies".

Oh yea, I had forgotten about poop pot back in the day.
GliderJohn

[Guzzi Gal]

I have been "Restoring" this '69 VeeDub for longer than I care to publically admit. 

Bought it from the original owner that purchased the car new in Nov of 1968.  We have gone through body, heater channels, paint, the latest thing I have done recently is the complete interior, all new and it looks awesome, well it will when it is all installed... lol  New head liner, all glass seals etc.

Last year I installed dropped front spindles with disc brakes.  This lowered the front for a better stance, in my opinion.

I need to bolt up the bumpers and running boards, whip a good tune on it and let it sit until Spring... :)

Sweet little ride and I love that color.

From Guzzi Gal:
Oh yea, I had forgotten about poop pot back in the day.
GliderJohn

HA!  My first car was a '68 bug, and before I drove it on my own for the first time, I did a complete drug search of the interior.  I didn't want to get pulled over for a fix-it ticket and have the officer decide to find the source of that distinctive herbaceous smell left over from it being Lib's (my mom) car.  I can't remember how many joint remnants, roach clips, and miscellaneous little pills I found, but it was a healthy handful.  I drove that car for 20 years, and sometimes I'd catch a whiff of my mom's leftovers coming from a hidden stash, I'm sure.  How I survived to adulthood is a mystery. 

[blackcat]

Only car engine I would entertain rebuilding. Nice touch with the 67 bumpers on that 73 beetle.

[Chuck in Indiana]

Here's to bug engines.. 
2016-05-28_08-09-56 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr

2016-05-24_02-55-34 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr

[Tom]

Anyone got an Amazona?  They were at sometime the largest production bike albeit in low numbers. 

http://www.odd-bike.com/2012/12/amazonas-1600-beetle-powered-brazilian.html

[rodekyll]

:1: Gotta love a bug!  My parents drove an old convertible from Cali to Ohio my first winter.  Lib (my mom) told me once we were lucky to have not frozen to death.  Later, Lib drove us from San Fran to Anchorage in a VW campervan to visit Vern, my birthfather, when he was working the crab boats in the early 70's.  I remember the thing backfired every few minutes, but it made it there, and back.  We also took the van from SF to Mexico around the same time.  Apparently, my diaper was a good place to smuggle "goodies".  

Lib ( kind of) settled down when she remarried in '77.  You could say I had an interesting childhood.   

That's funny.  All of it.  The VW convertibles were not 4-season cars. 

The funniest part is smuggling goodies INTO Alaska in the '70s.  It was a lot more common to get caught at the border smuggling stuff OUT of the state.  Back then Alaska was famously the only state that had a de-facto policy of allowing home-grown goodies.  It was built into the constitution and successfully defended as a privacy issue.  The courts ruled that in personal use situations, the right of the citizen to privacy behind closed doors outweighed the govm'ts interest in what went on behind those doors.  I can't verify it, but a claim made during the "legalization" campaign was that no simply-personal-possession cases have ever resulted in jail time in Alaska at the state or lower level.  DEA stats may be different.  Possession with intent to distribute though was and is a different kettle of crabs altogether.  So the majority of Alaskans with a taste for it were not in the trafficking loop -- they grew their own and shared it freely. 

So your father in Anchorage could have been supplying you instead of the other way 'round.   

The big appeals of the Alaska legalization vote was the regulated development of supply and distribution (revenue to the state), to set limits on the amount considered personal use (control black market), and to finally allow local governments to ban the distribution within their communities (conform to local norms).  The bill was written to allow and regulate MJ the same as we do alcohol.  In Alaska the communities have the option of going wet, damp, or dry with booze.  They are allowed those same options for pot products. 

I've had 22 VWs from '54 -- '73.  Not counting the ones I had twice or the VW van tent.  One in particular was a rusted out '63 beetle.  It was so rusted out that the battery area under the rear seat went missing when the battery dropped out.  I had to knock a hole in the floor pan on the other side of the hump to let the water out that the leaking windows let in.  I sold it to a buddy who replaced the hole in the floor with a trap door battery box.  He said that if the fixit ticket thing ever happened he'd just pull the lever on the trap door and jettison the goodies.  I don't know how that worked out for him.

[bad Chad]

There was an article in Rider a year or two ago, on the back page where they talk about a particular bike, which featured the big Brazilian.  There are very few apparently still on the road here in the US.  You could purchase them as some sort of kit for a few years here.  Seems pretty much a giant turd, but I'd love to have one, so cool!

I recall the article said the forks where hugely over sprung, among other somewhat lesser issues.

[mtiberio]

Interesting how it looks like they double nutted the studs to remove them... What, no stud removal tool? Also, spray can of parts cleaner, quite ecologically unsound...

[Dharma Bum]

Mike, what kind of question is that?  Why would you buy a stud removal tool when the second nut is free?  This is a Guzzi site after all!

[guzzista]

 VW ( bus) fans  may  like this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_aoJDpkjmM

[Guzzi Gal]

 :1: Thanks, Gzzista.  My uncle had one just like that, and a crew cab too, both mint. 

[troyhamilton]

i love vws! there was 5 rusting away up on the mountain. owner would not sell them! I want to build a VW motorcycle. 2 wheeler! saw one on you tube. no i dont mean a amazonian...

[Sheepdog]

I love V-Dubs. I restored a ‘72 Type 2 back in the nineties and have a pretty nice ‘63 Type 1 now that is waiting for restoration. They’re fantastic vehicles for independent-minded people...especially ones who have an interest in doing their own maintenance. They still have an extraordinary aftermarket, too. Ferdinand Porsche’s (or perhaps the Jewish engineer, Josef Ganz’) most enduring design...

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

I love V-Dubs. I restored a �72 Type 2 back in the nineties and have a pretty nice �63 Type 1 now that is waiting for restoration. They�re fantastic vehicles for independent-minded people...especially ones who have an interest in doing their own maintenance. They still have an extraordinary aftermarket, too. Ferdinand Porsche�s (or perhaps the Jewish engineer, Josef Ganz�) most enduring design...

More like Hans Ledwinka. https://petrolicious.com/articles/if-porsche-never-designed-the-volkswagen

[kirby1923]

Hey Chuck,
Is that a Joe Horvath conversion??

What a character!!

:-)

[Chuck in Indiana]

Hey Chuck,
Is that a Joe Horvath conversion??

What a character!!

:-)

Actually, it's a Chuck conversion.. 

[kirby1923]

Bravo!!!

I've done an inverted V8 direct drive...ala Steve Whitman...

:-)

[EldoMike]

Had a VW repair shop back in the 70's....let it go when they quit making the AirHeads.

[Chuck in Indiana]

Bravo!!!

I've done an inverted V8 direct drive...ala Steve Whitman...

:-)

Steve told me the V8 was his best performing Tailwind. RIP, Steve..
What did you put it in, Mike?

[Sasquatch Jim]

 The ugly Amazon would have been a great sidecar tug.  Big, heavy, square tires, no need to do darksiders.
Great torque, rugged dependability and a reverse gear.  I would have loved one.

[kirby1923]

Steve told me the V8 was his best performing Tailwind. RIP, Steve..
What did you put it in, Mike?

Yeah, (I miss spelled his name, Wittman :-()

Well it went into a Tailwind!!
The aircraft was built in the Oshkosh area (60s') and a guy from SoCal bought it and trailered it home.
It had a O300 cont  but he wanted an Olds 215 and contracted us to build one and install and make it work right.

Had many conversations with Steve about the engine conversion. We did a couple of improvements to the original and as far as I know its still flying today based out of Vacaville.

I did the initial fright tests and I REALLY liked the tailwind...its a great crate and a tribute to Steve's ability to design a pilots airplane that works!!!(Like the Buttercup as well).

Steve's generation was not afraid of a liquid cooled engine and well thought out innovation.

:-)

[Chuck in Indiana]

I did the initial fright tests and I REALLY liked the tailwind...its a great crate and a tribute to Steve's ability to design a pilots airplane that works!!!(Like the Buttercup as well).

He certainly was an under appreciated genius (by some) for a farm boy with no real engineering education. I was fortunate enough to fly an O200 powered tailwind out of a 2000 ft grass strip with trees at the end. I looked at the builder with an "are you sure?" look, and he just said.. "no problem." It wasn't. Pretty amazing for a short winged relatively high performance ship.

[kirby1923]

He certainly was an under appreciated genius (by some) for a farm boy with no real engineering education. I was fortunate enough to fly an O200 powered tailwind out of a 2000 ft grass strip with trees at the end. I looked at the builder with an "are you sure?" look, and he just said.. "no problem." It wasn't. Pretty amazing for a short winged relatively high performance ship.

Yeah, for sure.
The shape (lifting body) of the fuselage produced allot of lift and the Buttercup had leading edge devices!!!

I just got word that my friend that had the Beech 17 (staggerwing) which he lost to a gear collapse has acquired a '41 UPF-7!!!!
So another UPF in our little circle.

:-)