Hi Jeff

Looks like you're doing well. Good pics.

Mine own has almost made it to completion  after a similar thermostat
failure and catastrophic overheat coming home from Buses Of The Corn.

I replaced the gaskets on an otherwise known-good donor engine, then I
swapped over the cooling and FI from the old engine. I now have the
engine in, coolant is filled and burped and the exhaust is bolted up. It
starts and runs, but it's a bit louder than I'd like as there are still
two gaskets that remain to be replaced. I also need to go over the valve
adjustments one more time, as it seems to be missing a LOT of midrange
power and it clatters quite a bit. It seems to drive OK up to half
throttle or so but when accellerating it makes no difference whatsoever
if you give it anything more than half throttle.

I did a compression check after my initial valve adjustment... I got
180/180/165/175. I am OK with that. The engine does shake a lot when
it's idling though. As soon as I get time to get back out to the
driveway I plan to verify the valve adjustment and then go hunting for
vacuum leaks...

When I eventually get time to do a post mortem on the dead engine I'll
be sure post pics so Scott can judge who suffered the most horrific carnage.

Happy Trails,

Greg Potts
1973/74/79 Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
1987 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop
www.busesofthecorn.com
www.pottsfamily.ca

Jeff Lincoln wrote:
> Just thought I'd share this for those who may want to take a look. Not
> pretty for sure.
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/magikvw
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> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
> '90 Carat (Grover)
> '86 (We call this one Parts)
> '78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus
>

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