type 4 cam question
- RSorak 71Westy
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Re: type 4 cam question
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 !
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Rick
Stock 1600 w/dual Solex 34's and header. mildly ported heads and EMPI elephant's feet. SVDA W/pertronix. 73 Thing has been sold. BTW I am a pro wrench have been fixing cars for living for over 30 yrs.
Rick
Stock 1600 w/dual Solex 34's and header. mildly ported heads and EMPI elephant's feet. SVDA W/pertronix. 73 Thing has been sold. BTW I am a pro wrench have been fixing cars for living for over 30 yrs.
- Bleyseng
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Re: type 4 cam question
How? too tight valve clearance?
Geoff
77 Sage Green Westy- CS 2.0L-160,000 miles
70 Ghia vert, black, stock 1600SP,- 139,000 miles,
76 914 2.1L-Nepal Orange- 160,000+ miles
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77 Sage Green Westy- CS 2.0L-160,000 miles
70 Ghia vert, black, stock 1600SP,- 139,000 miles,
76 914 2.1L-Nepal Orange- 160,000+ miles
http://bleysengaway.blogspot.com/
- RSorak 71Westy
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Re: type 4 cam question
Looks like the valve broke from the pictures, the seat is still the head.
Take care,
Rick
Stock 1600 w/dual Solex 34's and header. mildly ported heads and EMPI elephant's feet. SVDA W/pertronix. 73 Thing has been sold. BTW I am a pro wrench have been fixing cars for living for over 30 yrs.
Rick
Stock 1600 w/dual Solex 34's and header. mildly ported heads and EMPI elephant's feet. SVDA W/pertronix. 73 Thing has been sold. BTW I am a pro wrench have been fixing cars for living for over 30 yrs.
- Amskeptic
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Honest to God, what is going on with that poor guy? This is painful.RSorak 71Westy wrote:Looks like the valve broke from the pictures, the seat is still the head.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- chitwnvw
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Re: type 4 cam question
This thread is giving me bad dreams...Amskeptic wrote:Honest to God, what is going on with that poor guy? This is painful.RSorak 71Westy wrote:Looks like the valve broke from the pictures, the seat is still the head.
Colin
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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.
Take care,
Rick
Stock 1600 w/dual Solex 34's and header. mildly ported heads and EMPI elephant's feet. SVDA W/pertronix. 73 Thing has been sold. BTW I am a pro wrench have been fixing cars for living for over 30 yrs.
Rick
Stock 1600 w/dual Solex 34's and header. mildly ported heads and EMPI elephant's feet. SVDA W/pertronix. 73 Thing has been sold. BTW I am a pro wrench have been fixing cars for living for over 30 yrs.
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Re: type 4 cam question
Hearing all this is making me re-think. Probably not good.
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- Amskeptic
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Re: type 4 cam question
This thread is a testament to error, not engine technology.bajaman72 wrote:Hearing all this is making me re-think. Probably not good.
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
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- RSorak 71Westy
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The engine was right when it left here, yes the initial cam failure was error, but the exhaust valve failure was not.
Take care,
Rick
Stock 1600 w/dual Solex 34's and header. mildly ported heads and EMPI elephant's feet. SVDA W/pertronix. 73 Thing has been sold. BTW I am a pro wrench have been fixing cars for living for over 30 yrs.
Rick
Stock 1600 w/dual Solex 34's and header. mildly ported heads and EMPI elephant's feet. SVDA W/pertronix. 73 Thing has been sold. BTW I am a pro wrench have been fixing cars for living for over 30 yrs.
- Bleyseng
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Re: type 4 cam question
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.
Geoff
77 Sage Green Westy- CS 2.0L-160,000 miles
70 Ghia vert, black, stock 1600SP,- 139,000 miles,
76 914 2.1L-Nepal Orange- 160,000+ miles
http://bleysengaway.blogspot.com/
77 Sage Green Westy- CS 2.0L-160,000 miles
70 Ghia vert, black, stock 1600SP,- 139,000 miles,
76 914 2.1L-Nepal Orange- 160,000+ miles
http://bleysengaway.blogspot.com/