Engine Build - Type1 1969 Westfalia

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:19 pm

The oranges are so incongruous! Amusing, somewhat...
It's the artist in me that makes everything ridiculous.

tristessa · Post by **tristessa** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:59 pm

Amskeptic wrote:Paint might help keep things a little cleaner until your first oil spewing event that coats everything with a layer of dust/oily lint crap ANYWAYS. . .

Que?

When I had the upper cylinder tins off my engine last January the paint on my cylinders was just fine after 3-1/2 years of daily driving .. and no layer of dust/oily lint crap on the driver's side. Passenger side was a mess, caused by the now-removed aftermarket-crappy breather, but the mess cleaned off easily .. thanks to the paint. These engines don't have to leak oil...

I've had less problems with engines I've built *with* painted jugs/case than I have with engines *without* painted jugs/case. I'm perfectly willing to concede that it probably has more to do with the attention-to-detail involved with getting the case/jugs paintable (and therefore squeaky-clean, looked over, etc.) than it does with the parts being painted, though.

tristessa · Post by **tristessa** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:10 pm

hambone wrote:the Blue Coil...even considered painting it black and getting the Bosch sticker but that would be ridiculous, wouldn't it?

Nope. Painting it red and getting a Mallory sticker would be ridiculous. Having a tiki-inspired design pinstriped on it would be totally ridiculous.

Painting teh blue coil black and putting a Bosch sticker on it .. anal-retentive perhaps, but not ridiculous.

tristessa · Post by **tristessa** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:20 pm

.. and before I forget, if anyone could use a scale like the one in the pics, I got it from the eBay seller "Raven Scales Online".

It's the 600g x 0.1g digital pocket scale, cost me $16.97. Free shipping on the one I bought, there's other listings with $9.98 Buy It Now and $6.99 shipping, works out to the same total. Bought it Saturday the 3rd, had it in my hands Tuesday the 7th. Even came with batteries...

Bookwus · Post by **Bookwus** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:28 pm

Hiya All,

And I'll reiterate, Hal's scale is really a nifty little gizmo. Looking for an excuse to buy, I'm thinking what I might be able to use one for beside weighing pistons. Then again, I gotta put together three engines so maybe I just ought to spring for it and find other uses later!

Post by **Amskeptic** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:04 pm

hambone wrote:after spending a day carefully splattering paint over everything, the parts are infused with a careful love that wouldn't exist if I just bolted em' up.

And that is the crux of it. . . . my dipstick, by the way, is painted Lincoln Continental Cherry Metallic. . .
Colin

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:37 pm

Amskeptic wrote:. . . my dipstick, by the way, is painted Lincoln Continental Cherry Metallic. . .
Colin

I didn't want to know.

tristessa · Post by **tristessa** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:33 pm

Bookwus wrote:I'm thinking what I might be able to use one for beside weighing pistons. Then again, I gotta put together three engines so maybe I just ought to spring for it and find other uses later!

You could weigh .. other things. It'll measure in ounces too, so might be useful as an impromptu postage scale .. for small stuff anyway.

Mostly I got it for weighing pistons, planning to "donate" it to the communal "tool box" that seems to be developing amongst the locals.

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:14 am

tristessa wrote:
Bookwus wrote:I'm thinking what I might be able to use one for beside weighing pistons. Then again, I gotta put together three engines so maybe I just ought to spring for it and find other uses later!
You could weigh .. other things. It'll measure in ounces too, so might be useful as an impromptu postage scale .. for small stuff anyway.

Mostly I got it for weighing pistons, planning to "donate" it to the communal "tool box" that seems to be developing amongst the locals.

Cool idea! I don't have much but it sure is nice to help out rather then seeing the tool just sitting there.

What's temp in PDX? Just wondering because it's rather balmy at 48 here right now.....another strange winter for weather.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:19 am

Pretty warm here too. Had a nice ride in to work in the mist.
That scale is a good deal.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:43 am

15 and snowing here.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:04 am

Arggh! You need a certain Eastern Europe mentality to deal with that stuff longterm. Krakow Mind.

Post by **Amskeptic** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:22 pm

chitwnvw wrote:
Amskeptic wrote:. . . my dipstick, by the way, is painted Lincoln Continental Cherry Metallic. . .
Colin
I didn't want to know.

Yeah you did. And you know what? The dipstick in my BUS is painted Lincoln Continental Cherry Metallic too.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:24 pm

ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!

Cindy · Post by **Cindy** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:12 am

chitwnvw wrote:15 and snowing here.

its gonna be a high of 7 on friday--the day i leave for sunny texas.

cindy

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Engine Build - Type1 1969 Westfalia