Re: [T3] Number 4 issues..

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

<x-flowed>As I said:  show me a factory manual that detailed this (line boring) 
procedure.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Wolfe" <russw@classicvw.org>
To: "Type3" <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:18 AM
Subject: Re: [T3] Number 4 issues..


> On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 13:10, William Bold wrote:
> > 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.
> I am talking about Factory rebuilt engines. Not shop built. And no, The
> factory did not advocate the shops line boring cases, but they did. I
> have torn many a KD engine down that could not be rebuilt because of
> some of the things that the factory did to it, and you could not get
> replacement parts.
> In the final stages of the factory rebuild program, the engines were not
> rebuilt in Germany, but were rebuilt by a contractor in Canada.
>
> --
> 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
>
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