Re: [T3] Number 4 issues..

["William Bold" <wtbold@hotmail.com>]

<x-flowed>Yes, bur all these "fixes" were "field" repairs.
You could not buy a Volkswagenwerk AG factory rebuild (with VW AG 
guarantee -- valid at any VW dealer in the world) this way.

Show me a Volkswagen AG service manual that details the procedure for line 
boring.

I'm sure line boring is still done by many shops every day -- cheap fixes 
are hard to let go.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Wolfe" <russw@classicvw.org>
To: "Type3" <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [T3] Number 4 issues..


> On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 16:52, William Bold wrote:
> > Yes, you're right, the milage is pretty good . . . still, if it's any
> > indication, VW stopped "reconditioning" cases by line boring very early
> > on -- certainly they had THE BEST  machining capability, and found it was
> > not practical to restore cases that had "grown" out of line.
> They were using line bored cases up until I quit working at the dealers
> in 1979. Don't know about after that. And a lot of the standard cases
> were old cases that were cut true and then bored back to standard bore.
> On those, you may see shims under the cylinders. to make up for the loss
> of width. They also bored the cylinders and installed oversized pistons.
> and oversized valve guides, and welded heads.
>
> --
> Russ Wolfe
> '71 FB AT
> '66 FB MT
> '64 T34 (not running)
> '65 T1 (not running)
> '05 KIA Sorento SUV
> russw@classicvw.org
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