--- Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET> wrote:

> SO I got the engine out and flywheel off (needs a
> new flywheel), heads and
> cylinders off. Unfortunately Dennis was right about
> the block - the rear
> thrust bearing is moving in its seat, I can rotate
> it about 1/8" inch.
> Nobody in Vancouver area can machine these blocks
> and there isn't an
> oversize bearing available, so it looks like a new
> used block for me. I'm
> leaning towards letting the machine shop do the
> parts swap - polish the
> crank, mic everything, install new bearings,
> probably new cam and lifters. I
> could do this part myself and save $400 bucks but
> the chances of fouling up
> something are good as I have NO experience with
> these engines. It's weird,
> this engine was rebuilt not that long ago from all
> appearances - no cylinder
> ridge and you can still see the crosshatch marks on
> the cylinder walls, oil
> galleries drilled and plugged. I know the heads were
> rebuilt this summer.
> Yet all told I'm still looking at a grand, not
> including new exhaust and
> heqter boxes, and I'm still left with a questionable
> motor. So now I'm
> wondering what one of these engine conversions cost?

Being a fellow AC van owner in Vancouver I noticed a
recent posting on Craigs List:

http://vancouver.craigslist.org/pts/219718221.html

I had seen it before listed for more, so pretty sure
price has been lowered once already. Regardless one
has to make sure that the rebuilds been done "right".

Cheers,

Neil Nicholson.
1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil

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