Hopefully your '71 baywindow engine did not have that. If it did, your
cooling system probably didn't work properly.....
That is indeed where the water pump goes.

-Craig
'85GL turned WESTY
turning BOSTIG

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Peter's photo of his engine at
>
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/pnoceanwesty/JoesVanHeadWork42309?authkey=Gv1sRgCN6E5JDItYGEQA#5328073043878972530
>
> what's that swirly circular opening to the left of the pulley? Between the
> exhaust port and the pulley? About maybe 4'' in diameter? The only engine
> I've worked on was the 1600 DP from my 71 aircooled baywindow. I don't
> recognize that opening . . . water pump maybe?
>
> (The Bentley's is in the van.)
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> On 4/23/2009 7:19 PM Peter T. Owsianowski wrote:
>
>  Just had to report:
>>
>> Been soaking a stuck head bolt on and off waiting for a valve press to be
>> delivered.  Got that press today, (man, does that make it easy!) got all
>> the
>> valves and keepers out and the stuck bolt came out with vice grips!  Big
>> sigh of relief.  Couple of the valves were banged up, but have new ones on
>> the way.  Oddly enough, the end of the stuck bolt (inside the block) had
>> been ground down.  The heads were rebuilt about 55K ago by a VW
>> dealership.
>> Why would that be ground down on 4 sides?
>>
>> Anyway, looks like Joesvan will be tooling the down the road to Buses by
>> the
>> Beach if everything else goes back together well!
>>
>> Check out pics here:
>>
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/pnoceanwesty/JoesVanHeadWork42309?authkey=Gv1sRgCN6E5JDItYGEQA
>> #
>>
>>
>> Pete
>> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
>> '87 Westy "Joe's Van"
>> WWW.Busesbythebeach.com
>>
>>