type 4 cam question

RSorak 71Westy · Post by **RSorak 71Westy** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 8:09 am

Well bad news Scott the guy from Ontario I helped, dropped an exhaust valve about 500 miles from my house, he's currently in Norman OK @ Darryl's hobby shop getting fixed again !

Bleyseng · Post by **Bleyseng** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:33 am

How? too tight valve clearance?

RSorak 71Westy · Post by **RSorak 71Westy** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:17 pm

Looks like the valve broke from the pictures, the seat is still the head.

Post by **Amskeptic** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:56 am

RSorak 71Westy wrote:Looks like the valve broke from the pictures, the seat is still the head.

Honest to God, what is going on with that poor guy? This is painful.
Colin

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:15 am

Amskeptic wrote:
RSorak 71Westy wrote:Looks like the valve broke from the pictures, the seat is still the head.
Honest to God, what is going on with that poor guy? This is painful.
Colin

This thread is giving me bad dreams...

RSorak 71Westy · Post by **RSorak 71Westy** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:21 pm

I agree and with all the problems I've read about type 4 parts availability lately or lack there of. Makes me really happy to have only type 1's.

bajaman72 · Post by **bajaman72** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:14 am

Hearing all this is making me re-think. Probably not good.

Post by **Amskeptic** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:10 pm

bajaman72 wrote:Hearing all this is making me re-think. Probably not good.

This thread is a testament to error, not engine technology.
If I had to drive across the country over and over and over and over in the hottest summer heat imagineable, trying to get to appointments or something (I know, who would do that in air-cooled VW?) I would take the Type 4 engine no question.
Colin

RSorak 71Westy · Post by **RSorak 71Westy** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:28 am

The engine was right when it left here, yes the initial cam failure was error, but the exhaust valve failure was not.

Bleyseng · Post by **Bleyseng** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:10 am

I think Colin is on to this, that there is more "error" in the engine building. First off, wiping a new cam is easy to do "if" you don't follow the cam break in procedures. Now I wonder about the heads and their rebuilding or are they "new"? Snapping off a exhaust valve on a type 4 isn't as common as on a type 1.

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