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> On 4 Jan 2004 at 20:10, Jim Adney wrote: > > > I should add that ALL the type 3 cases I've ever taken apart looked pretty much > like this. I suspect that the oil came out of the oil cooler ports when you > cranked the engine. With the cooler out, you really couldn't build up ANY oil > pressure inside the oil passage that is under there, so there would be no > reason for oil to come out a crack there. > > If by some chance there really IS a crack there that goes thru to the oil > passage, I have good used type 3 cases. I would not try to repair this one. > When I was cranking the engine, I had some plugs in the oil cooler holes that I put in to keep the rats nests out of the oil passages while I was cleaning out the nests. I watched oil come out of the crack when I cranked it. I just came in from the garage, I've torn the engine down to the bare cases and I'm taking them tomorrow to see about repair. I have looked in the places that cracks are supposed to be common on these cases, but don't see any others (there is lots of grime though, so it's hard to tell). The rest of the engine looked pretty good on the inside. The cylinders still had very prominent crosshatching, is this normal? Almost no ridge at the top, and I suspect most of what is there is carbon build-up, not wear. The cam has no obvious wear patterns, but that may not tell me very much. I didn't look yet at rod side clearance. Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions, I'll keep you posted. Terry Cost 1970 Square "Down but not for the Count" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org