Yep ;
The original engines often lasted 150,000 miles if taken care of .
I was lucky in that I worked for a guy who taught me the ins & outs of engine works and I taught my self to patch repair otherwise scrapped engines and installed them into the many used cars I built in the 1970's through the 1990's, I never had one come back ~ that's due to the good engineering, not my particular work .
I have a rough 1959 Beetle I need to slap an engine in, I got the parts back from the machine shop but need to find someone in the loose Los Angeles area who'll let me bead blast a bunch of clean sheet metal so I can paint it first .
-Nate
Joe wrote :
I can remember my late father would rebuild a Volkswagen air-cooled
boxer engine in half a day - we still have a few sets of crankshaft end
float adjustment shims that he got in a bulk buy and I may not part with
them unless I could find someone who wants to rebuild one we have at home.
Those little air-cooled engines were nigh on indestructible unless
someone failed to keep the cooling fins on the cylinder barrels clean -
and the same went for the big German Magirus-Deutz trucks..... those big
tanks of trucks ran big 6 cylinder, V8 and V10 air-cooled diesel engines
and were renown for cracking cylinder heads if they got too hot. Thank
God they had individual heads on each cylinder!
--
Joe Hupp
Hobby Photographer
38R Ten Mile Lane
Dubbo NSW 2830 Australia
P: 0439895121
E: josephhupp@...
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boxer engine in half a day - we still have a few sets of crankshaft end
float adjustment shims that he got in a bulk buy and I may not part with
them unless I could find someone who wants to rebuild one we have at home.
Those little air-cooled engines were nigh on indestructible unless
someone failed to keep the cooling fins on the cylinder barrels clean -
and the same went for the big German Magirus-Deutz trucks..... those big
tanks of trucks ran big 6 cylinder, V8 and V10 air-cooled diesel engines
and were renown for cracking cylinder heads if they got too hot. Thank
God they had individual heads on each cylinder!
--
Joe Hupp
Hobby Photographer
38R Ten Mile Lane
Dubbo NSW 2830 Australia
P: 0439895121
E: josephhupp@...
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