metalmick8y wrote:did any picks get posted up of your van
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I have not yet no, will get some posted up tomorrow
New owner/First camperLots of help and information required!
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Re: New owner/First camperLots of help and information required!
I have not yet no, will get some posted up tomorrow
Re: New owner/First camperLots of help and information required!
I appear to have two threads going on now haha, thought I would reply on here too
Evening all, sorry for lack of response, have just been outrageously busy. First of all I would really like to say thank you again to everyone. I dont think ive ever felt so welcomed to a new forum really appreciate everyone taking the time to help
Ok so for a bit of an update, The oil pressure has been fine and ive done 30 miles since the service, oil light goes out straight away. The metallic mess that came out was still really bad and I imagine they now have been well "run in"
luckily I scraped all the larger bits into a rag and put them on the bench at work, I had another look at them today and they are soft and non magnetic, the oil retention was dragging them along with my magnet which made me think they were metal, could still be aluminium
Im very new to boxer engines (never worked on one, never really paid much attention to one running) I took it into work this morning and a guy said she only running on three, I replied I thought they were all that lumpy. Apparently not, told me to check compression, cylinder 1 came back with nothing and all the others were all over the place! He immediately said valve clearances. So i checked them and the valves were being held open on cylinder number one!!! I thought not to check them due to them being hydraulic, but it looks like someone has had a go before as you could see spanner marks where someone had slipped of the nut before. So I rechecked all the other and they were all over the place!!! most holding valves open or like 20 thou gap! unreal! so set them all to 6 thou. Started her up and It runs incredible! soooooo much better! So the reason my fuel economy was so bad on the way home from picking it up was because the vac advance was unplugged, valve clearances where a joke and cylinder one wasn't even firing! I should have noticed that really, but I just thought they were that lumpy and they were generally slow as well as bad on fuel
I didnt buy the van, me and my girlfriend had been looking at them for a while. Out of nowhere she impulse bought one and didnt tell me!!
we were supposed to buy a diesel. Anyway we travelled down there and It was very rotten but the guy had advertised some "rust" I told my girlfriend the crack and she still wanted it :/ it was £3400 and an expensive one goes for £8000! I wanted to do some work myself, bits at a time as I already have a project and its taking all my time up already. I dont mind doing the work on this, but it was sold with 12 months Mot and usable, Its quite the opposite and should have been sold as spares or repairs running. After a proper inspection its blatantly a joke mot
So moving on. We are still unsure whether to sell or keep, its very rotten but I wasn't so fussed by that as I planned to sort that out at a later date, in a years time once ive finished my Golf. Thanks for your comments mgbman. What your saying makes complete sense. We wanted a VW because we like them and them and wanted a small project. Not a fan of new cars. I wouldn't mind so much if I didn't already have another project and we weren't planning on using it. Im coming around to the little Aircooled engine. If we keep it we plan to keep the Aircooled engine and gut the inside (after bodywork)
Evening all, sorry for lack of response, have just been outrageously busy. First of all I would really like to say thank you again to everyone. I dont think ive ever felt so welcomed to a new forum
really appreciate everyone taking the time to helpOk so for a bit of an update, The oil pressure has been fine and ive done 30 miles since the service, oil light goes out straight away. The metallic mess that came out was still really bad and I imagine they now have been well "run in"
luckily I scraped all the larger bits into a rag and put them on the bench at work, I had another look at them today and they are soft and non magnetic, the oil retention was dragging them along with my magnet which made me think they were metal, could still be aluminium Im very new to boxer engines (never worked on one, never really paid much attention to one running) I took it into work this morning and a guy said she only running on three, I replied I thought they were all that lumpy. Apparently not, told me to check compression, cylinder 1 came back with nothing and all the others were all over the place! He immediately said valve clearances. So i checked them and the valves were being held open on cylinder number one!!! I thought not to check them due to them being hydraulic, but it looks like someone has had a go before as you could see spanner marks where someone had slipped of the nut before. So I rechecked all the other and they were all over the place!!! most holding valves open or like 20 thou gap! unreal! so set them all to 6 thou. Started her up and It runs incredible! soooooo much better! So the reason my fuel economy was so bad on the way home from picking it up was because the vac advance was unplugged, valve clearances where a joke and cylinder one wasn't even firing! I should have noticed that really, but I just thought they were that lumpy and they were generally slow as well as bad on fuel
I didnt buy the van, me and my girlfriend had been looking at them for a while. Out of nowhere she impulse bought one and didnt tell me!!
we were supposed to buy a diesel. Anyway we travelled down there and It was very rotten but the guy had advertised some "rust" I told my girlfriend the crack and she still wanted it :/ it was £3400 and an expensive one goes for £8000! I wanted to do some work myself, bits at a time as I already have a project and its taking all my time up already. I dont mind doing the work on this, but it was sold with 12 months Mot and usable, Its quite the opposite and should have been sold as spares or repairs running. After a proper inspection its blatantly a joke motSo moving on. We are still unsure whether to sell or keep, its very rotten but I wasn't so fussed by that as I planned to sort that out at a later date, in a years time once ive finished my Golf. Thanks for your comments mgbman. What your saying makes complete sense. We wanted a VW because we like them and them and wanted a small project. Not a fan of new cars. I wouldn't mind so much if I didn't already have another project and we weren't planning on using it. Im coming around to the little Aircooled engine. If we keep it we plan to keep the Aircooled engine and gut the inside (after bodywork)