Thanks for the lead, Neil and Tabe. I called and talked to the guy, and what
he says is the rebuilder (Medallion Motors?) buys a rebuilt factory case
from VW (is this possible?), and installs his own new pistons and new heads.
Supposedly it has new bearings/cam and crank/lifters. I'm going to see it
tomorrow, but in terms of "right" rebuilds, how do you know? What can you
look for? The price is sure right for a rebuilt, but not if it blows in a
month. It sure feels like the swamp water is rising...

On 10/18/06 7:49 PM, "neil" <goofymuso@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> --- 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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