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Pictures and stories like this really make me smile :-) Keith Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo" 65 Squareback "Eggcrate" 87 golf "Winterat" 93 RX7 "Redstur" -----Original Message----- From: Scott Taylor [mailto:scottbtaylor@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:50 PM To: type3@vwtype3.org Subject: Re: [T3] starting an early 62 overhaul On Jul 5, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Jim Adney wrote: > Does the oil cooler mount on the case look like it's farther to the > rear of the > engine than on modern cases? Your oil cooler is actually more over the > # 4 > cylinder than the # 3. I notice that the air cleaner also seems to be > mounted > farther to the rear. The oil cooler is centered right over the top front stud for cylinder #4 (hope that makes sense). I think the air cleaner is in the same place on all sidedraft engines, but I could be wrong. > The left end of the oil cooler seems to mount to the left top tin. I > guess this > means that the early type 3 cooler is NOT the same as the beetle's. Is > it the > same as a 356 Porsche? Yes, it's secured to the tin on the left side. Easy to forget about that when trying to remove the tin! I think the cooler is specific to the '62 Type 3. I was lucky enough to find an NOS one. > You were probably lucky to get those rear top tin pieces, even though > they were > mounted on the wrong side. Was everything else there? There's almost > always > something missing from engines this old, especially from engines this > unique > where people weren't familiar with where things belonged. It's surprisingly complete. It's been rebuilt before (the cylinders are marked with hacksaw strokes, I through IIII) but they managed to put everything back where it belongs, for the most part. There are a few things that are missing -- carb pre-heater intake and hose, plug wire separator, small things like that. > The case should have the cam running right against the case material, > but RIMCO can bore the cam tunnel for std size modern cam bearings. > That's > probably a good thing to do to this case. That's my plan, to have the case machined for cam bearings. That's about as "dark" as it's going to get. > If you have to replace a head, you might be able to find a 40 hp head > that could be converted, but it would probably have a different > casting part > number. I really hope I can salvage the heads, or if not maybe locate rebuildable ones (a long shot). 40-horse heads will be the last resort. How worried should I be about a broken cooling fin? Think it's just a coincidence that it's right over #2? > I'm actually surprised that this head has a 311 casting number since I > thought VW would have just made this part from the 40 hp casting. Probably due to the larger valves. Scott 62 343 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~