I guess I'm lazy, it  just takes me longer because I clean everything as it
comes out or goes back in.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Schwaia" <jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: in the year 2015......

> A quick disconnect for the wiring harness on a splittie?  Wow, that PO
> must've been really bored or really lazy.  How many wires are on a
splittie
> engine... 5?  Three for the generator, one for the coil, one for OP
switch.
>
> Back in the early '80s when I was turning wrenches at a VW shop we would
> fight for the engine R&R's on splitties.  We could do a clutch in about
1.5
> hours.  Good money...
>
> A Vanagon WBX'er engine R&R shouldn't take longer than 3.5 hours for
anyone
> who's done a few (add an hour if your doing the job in your driveway).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Stan Wilder
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:40 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: in the year 2015......
>
>
> I had a walkthrough split, just by chance.
> I had a big case of the dreads when I needed to put a clutch in it but
once
> I got started I found that the PO had installed a quick disconnect plug on
> the wiring harness and then there was just the one fuel line to deal with.
> The whole engine came backwards after removal of the rear-most lower body
> panel. The R & R only took about two hours since I didn't need to pull the
> tranny.
> That's a definite upside to the removal of a Vanagon engine at about 12
> hours for an R &R.
>
> Stan Wilder
> Engine Ceramics
> 214-352-4931
> www.engineceramics.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:14 PM
> Subject: Re: in the year 2015......
>
>
> > >  >> The down sides to the Bay and Split window are the absence of a
big
> hole
> > >>>  over the engine for easy access.
> > >>
> > >>  The 1600-powered Bays had no engine hatch at all!
> > >
> > >Yeah, & the worst hack in Splitdom, besides the wheel wells being cut
> out,
> >
> > Ugh.
> >
> > >is to cut in a hatch over the engine to access the AC engine? I've seen
> > >restos where they have patched in the hole to make it stock. Nope,
> thinking
> > >more, the bulkhead removal to make a walk thru is the worst!
> >
> > So why doidn't they look for a walkthrough Split? Hard to find,
> > maybe... then, not all Bays were walkthrough either.
> >
> > >Tom-don't need no access panel to work on a upright engine, just need
4'
> > >long arms.
> >
> > Dead right! EASY to work on. But I do have long arms...
> > --
> > Andrew Grebneff
> > Dunedin
> > New Zealand
> > Fossil preparator
> > <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> > Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
> >
> > HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE
> >
> > DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR