Type 4 rebuild timeline

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Type 4 rebuild timeline

Post by whc03grady » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:54 pm

So how long are we talking to rebuild a Type IV engine? Assuming an intact bottom end?
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Post by chitwnvw » Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:44 am

Have parts and know how, you can complete it in a weekend.

For normal, but motivated people...a couple of months.

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Post by BellePlaine » Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:37 am

Pray for easy-sailin' but plan on set-backs.
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Post by dhoch14 » Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:47 am

took me a whole summer aka 3 months.
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Post by hambone » Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:14 pm

Took me 3 months for the whole works, type1. It's not the kind of thing you want to rush. It will probably take over your life anyway.
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Post by Bleyseng » Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:52 am

whc03grady wrote:So how long are we talking to rebuild a Type IV engine? Assuming an intact bottom end?
For me its about 2 months and most of that time is getting rods, heads, parts , etc sent out for machining etc.
Assembly time is a week maybe.... but you have to have all the parts sitting there.
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Post by Oregon72 » Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:36 am

Full rebuild took me 4 months, but I also did a lot of other stuff like repair battery tray, clean and repaint engine compartment. Like Geoff, I also had some waiting time for machine work and parts that took a bit of that time. One time saver I would change for next time is have tin and shroud blasted clean by a professional instead of hand scrubbing and wire-wheeling every last thing. It was a lot of fun.
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Post by Amskeptic » Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:38 am

Takes me two weeks. Two days disassembly with typical parts needed ordered at the end of the second day. Cleaning takes me a good three days with another parts order at the end of this closer investigation. I paint/detail during parts delivery window that's about a week in the middle. Lower end build takes a day of fastidious double-checking, long block is completed by end of second day, ancilliaries by end of third day, and into the car.
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Post by hambone » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:36 am

It's a bit quicker if life doesn't get in the way. Kids and families change the timeline.
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Post by whc03grady » Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:33 pm

Thanks for the input, all. I'm going to optimistically allow 6 weeks and pessimistically allow 6 years. I'll have "whc03grady's rebuild" thread up as soon as I get going.
Ludwig--1974 Westfalia, 2.0L (GD035193), Solex 34PDSIT-2/3 carburetors.
Gertie--1971 Squareback, 1600cc with Bosch D-Jetronic fuel injection from a '72 (E brain).
Read about their adventures:
http://www.ludwigandgertie.blogspot.com

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Post by Amskeptic » Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:38 pm

whc03grady wrote:Thanks for the input, all. I'm going to optimistically allow 6 weeks and pessimistically allow 6 years. I'll have "whc03grady's rebuild" thread up as soon as I get going.
That seems prudent. I think we can shorten it up a year or so.
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Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
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Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
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Post by fancy pants » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:30 am

So far I am on 7 months and haven't started putting it back together yet! I keep finding other things to distract me...
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Post by Westy78 » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:42 am

I think I hold the local record at around two years. Extenuating circumstances applied. :blackeye:
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Post by poptop tom » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:14 am

Westy78 wrote:I think I hold the local record at around two years. Extenuating circumstances applied. :blackeye:
LOL. That's nothing Jasan!
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Post by chitwnvw » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:15 am

poptop tom wrote:
Westy78 wrote:I think I hold the local record at around two years. Extenuating circumstances applied. :blackeye:
LOL. That's nothing Jasan!
I was going to say...2 years isn't bad.

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