Re: [T3] bad news (sort of) Broke motor................ ( long )

["Keith Park" <TopNotchResto@worldnet.att.net>]

Bummer!!  but good thing you followed the proper startup procedure!!

This is why I dont stray from stock, I keep hearing these stories.  I
almost went with full flow but then greg had problems and so on...
if this happened to my Notch it would probably be years before I had time
and money to get into it again and the car would just sit. I still want a
1776 in it but Gene Berg is the only one I'll trust and for the Square bone
stock is the only way ill feel safe, I cannot do without the square or have
it break down thousands of miles from home

Letting it sit over the winter without running it tends to let carbon
deposits loosen up and contaminate the oil.

Keith

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> From: My65notch@aol.com
> To: type3@vwtype3.org
> Subject: [T3] bad news (sort of) Broke motor................ ( long )
> Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 12:22 PM
> 
> Well,
> 
> spring has sprung here in Michigan and it's time to fire up the cars that

> have been sitting in the garage. I went out this morning and decided that
it 
> was time to drive the notch. I undid the coil wire and went{é¨çranking 
> the motor - to build oil pressure ( the car has been sitting since
November 
> ). Odd, after cranking for quite some time the light still won't go out.
So I 
> set about removing the spark plugs so the engine would spin faster and 
> hopefully prime the pump. No dice. I took off the "out" line that's
running 
> to the remote oil filter and cranked -- no oil out of that. The decision
was 
> made to remove the fan shroud and fan etc. and take off the oil pump
cover 
> and see what was up. This is where it gets ugly -- I took off the oil
pump 
> cover and found that a "spring" had been ingested into the oil pump
seizing 
> the gears and snapping the end off the gear that keys into the cam face.
The 
> spring looks like one of those springs that goes into the end of a hex
bar 
> linkage for dual carbs. It's just so odd because the car was running fine

> when I put it away. Whatever dislodged this spring from where it was
hiding 
> and inserted itself into my oil pump is a mystery to me. Anyhow, to make
a 
> short story long.......This of course is going to necessitate an engine 
> dissassembly because when I drained the oil I found a chunk of the oil
pump 
> in the bottom of the oil drain pan. 
> When I frst built this motor 3 years ago ( I didn't actually get to run
until 
> last year -- don't ask ) I had posted to the aircooled list about motor
sizes 
> for a Type 3 and everyone said "oh no !!!! you can't go any bigger than
1776 
> with a type3 -- they don't cool as well as a type 1 -- that fan will
never 
> cool down anything bigger" well, I'ma gonna throw caution to the wind
here 
> and build a 74 x 90.5, that way I can use my P's & C's and just get the
case 
> clearanced for the longer stroke.
> I just needed to rant and tell my tale of woe.
> It's gettin' darker out.......
> Thanks, Dan
> 
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