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On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 20:34, Keith Park wrote: > Hi all, > > I have put some pictures of the Crate up on Russ' site: > http://classicvw.org/gallery/KeithP > > Got the engine all de-tinned, something special about pulling the tin off a > virgin engine... several things that I didnt know it had or where they went > were all intact. All the screws and bolts came off (with a little help from > the hot wrench) and sure enough there was a nice big mouse nest for each > bank of cylinders! Fortunately, careful examination of the bottom of the > nests didnt show any burning so I dont think it was ever run long with the > nests on it. I also found that all the rubber parts were in great shape, > the elbow joints, cooler seals, front crank seal... all in great shape so I > dont think it was ever run hot. > I pulled the clutch to find it was shot however... which seemed odd at > 33Kmi but since this was an egg delivery vehicle it probably saw alot of > stop and go driving. I was elated to find that except for a quarter sized > hole in one of them both heater boxes were in great shape... god bless a > leaky engine! :) > Yeah, that flywheel is a "delivery car" flywheel. Have you split the fan housing yet? My engine was locked up because of the nests in the fan housing. And wash out the heater boxes. They will smell like mouse pee the first couple times you use the heaters. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~