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Back in the 60's and 70's, when the ad in the paper said, "rebuilt engine" it meant that this engine was soon going to fail. I developed the viewpoint and passed it along to as many friends as possible that a "rebuilt engine" meant that it had to come out and be thoroughly inspected. If the guy had done it himself and had all the receipts, and there was no bill from Rimco for case work, I figured it to be a 10k-20k mile engine. I once took a new rebuild all apart and shipped the cases and crank, rods, cam off to Rimco, then put it back together again.. It was a great engine. If the rebuild was by a shop, it still didn't mean anything if they didn't align bore the cases. The guys at Rimco explained to me that a case has to be line bored, cause the bearings are no longer lined up after 100k miles, and they're worn, so it doesn't matter. New reground crank with tight bearing, mean constant flex of the case and crank, and low miles til next rebuild. Once I started sending every engine off to Rimco for case, crank, rods, and cam, my engines were as good as factory rebuilt. In my opinion any rebuild should include Rimco blueprinting the cases. You would be amazed at how much things are out of line in a used case. They also say a used case is much better than a new one, as it has settled, and once bored will pretty much stay straight after that. My rule was that I would assemble the case with crank and cam and if I couldn't easily spin the crank with my fingers just on either end of the crank, there was something wrong. Everything in that case needs to be true and parallel, including cam and cyl bases. 2 cents please. Jim Showker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Erkson" <air_cooled_nut@pobox.com> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [t3] missing cooling tin > Gee, thanks Jim...do you also tell kids there's no such thing as Santa > Claus? :-D Just ribbing ya! Yeah, I'm not impressed at all with this > <ahem> rebuilt engine. The builder obviously did it on the cheap and > with extreme ignorance >:-( > > Toby Erkson -- air_cooled_nut@pobox.com > '72 VW Squareback Darksider, 5-speed, 2.0L, rag top > '72 VW Squareback Lightsider, automatic, FI, sunroof, gas heater > '95 VW Jetta ~ SCCA Solo II; '73 Porsche 914; '81 Honda Gold Wing > http://www.icbm.org/ > Portland, Oregon > > > > Jim Showker wrote: > > >I can tell you from experience that any motor with them left out is now a > >low mileage motor--will maybe last 20k-30k miles. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >