I finaly moved the old VW Camper down the car club today. It had to be trailored there but did get onto the trailor under it's own power, just!
For those not familiar with the story, my long suffering old bus was taken off the road just before christmass with a major oil leak. There is a leak around the oil cooler somewhere so when the engine is running it is spraying oil into the fan housing and reducing the oil pressure in the process. This oil then gets blown over the hot cylinders which after a while have a bit of a habit of setting fire to it.
The leak is pretty bad (think exon-valdize) and is enough for oil to literaly pour out of the bottom of the fan housing.
The trailor used to transport the van was a totaly sheeted type (i.e. not an open metal structure) and by the time the van had hauled it's sorry
onto it (which was a rather noisy job as most of the exhaust manifold studs have failed) there was quite an oil slick present.
Once we got to our destination and the van had been taken off the trailor; in the bright sunlight, the oil slick had a glittery look to it. Closer inspection confirmed the worst, metal! The engine was built from the best parts of two scrappers of unknown history and it obviously hasn't been a happy union.
So it looks like I might be looking at the best part of a grand for a new recon engine. Another nail in the coffin of aircooled VW ownership.
Smiler.
For those not familiar with the story, my long suffering old bus was taken off the road just before christmass with a major oil leak. There is a leak around the oil cooler somewhere so when the engine is running it is spraying oil into the fan housing and reducing the oil pressure in the process. This oil then gets blown over the hot cylinders which after a while have a bit of a habit of setting fire to it.
The leak is pretty bad (think exon-valdize) and is enough for oil to literaly pour out of the bottom of the fan housing.
The trailor used to transport the van was a totaly sheeted type (i.e. not an open metal structure) and by the time the van had hauled it's sorry
onto it (which was a rather noisy job as most of the exhaust manifold studs have failed) there was quite an oil slick present.Once we got to our destination and the van had been taken off the trailor; in the bright sunlight, the oil slick had a glittery look to it. Closer inspection confirmed the worst, metal! The engine was built from the best parts of two scrappers of unknown history and it obviously hasn't been a happy union.
So it looks like I might be looking at the best part of a grand for a new recon engine. Another nail in the coffin of aircooled VW ownership.
Smiler.
