Re: [T3] Starting a stored VW

["Russ Wolfe" <russella@prairieinet.net>]

Subject: Re: [T3] Starting a stored VW


> On 8 Jun 2001, at 8:28, Richard Green wrote:
>
> > I am not sure if anyone packs the oil pumps with a light grease or gear
oil on
> > Air cooled engines. I don't know of a way to prime these engines. In the
chevy V8
> > we made a tool from a old distribtor to turn the oil pump with a drill.
They make
> > a tool for this now.
>
>
> I can't imagine trying to turn over an engine from the dist drive gear.
> The gear ratio is working against you, and I doubt if those gears are
> strong enough for those kinds of stresses; it certainly wouldn't work
> on a VW. Just look at the mechanical advantage that a starter
> motor gets (drive pinion to flywheel ring gear.)
>
> If you just want to turn over the engine wouldn't it make more sense
> to bolt up a starter motor? Even on a VW where the starter bolts to
> the transmission, most shops would have an old tranny or tranny
> case lying around that a starter could be mounted to.
>
No, He is just wanting to prime the oil passages, by spinning the oil pump.
The oil pump on most V8 domestics is driven off the dristributor shaft. By
pulling the distributor, you can drive the pump manually, with a drill, an
adapter of some kind. I have done it with just an old flat screw driver
blade chucked in a drill.

Russ Wolfe
russw@classicvw.org
http://www.classicvw.org/


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