[Vwdiesel] Aircooled and Diesel --- ( was you talking VW only ? )

[Harmon Seaver]

   On my '69 bus, I pulled the engine and put it back in, started it, and pulled
it back out 4 times in about 3 hours one afternoon. I was adding an external oil
cooler and filter and it took that many tries before I found the right set of
oil cooler gaskets. But that was the '69 bus, which had a removable rear body
panel which allowed the engine to pull straight out. In the later buses, that
same panel is welded in, so you have to have the bus jacked way up and then
lower the engine to clear it, makes it much, much harder to get in and
out. Someone on the Type2 list told me to try pulling the tranny with it, and
that made it much easier, both pulling and putting back. 


On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:36:44PM -0600, James Hansen wrote:
> 
> >
> > 5 minutes to change an engine on a BEETLE  ?_  Try that on a
> > Rabbit. ----   Does anyone know
> > if that was a verified record ???.
> 
> The fastest time to switch the engine from one VW Beetle to another, then
> drive 5 meters is 1 minute 37 seconds by a team of four mechanics, Stefan
> Klotz, Ralf Kaelche, Markus Jung, and Stefan Worner, of Kaefer-Station Jung
> Klotz. This happened in Mulhheim, Germany on January 17, 1999. It's in
> Guinness.. book not ale.
> 
> I'm guessing here, but I'm thinking a couple of the boys are rather strong.
> 
> -James
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