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Picked up the repaired engine last night :D Will be 10 days before i get to fire it up though,family life eh!! :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: Regards. :sick0019:

Picked up the repaired engine last night,all looks good. It will be at least 10 days before i get chance to fire it up and check all is ok 8) Regards. :sick0019:

Fair one,point taken,but having to repair the exhaust studs and sump studs on two different engines before i even used them is a bit much in my eyes. Guess i should of paid more in the first place and gone else where.

He paid me £70 for my trouble,only hope it works,if not,if i set out now i might get down to River Dart by next August pushing the van :lol: :lol: Atleast it will be reliable :msn4:

Buyer beware my friend,been somewhere where i do not want to go again!! Been said before by others, you get what you pay for!! :sick0019:

Checked on the progress of my engine repair :sick0019:

Well as some of you may have read and indeed probably replied to the Engine thread experience i posted i thought you had the right to know The Outcome or more to the point what i,myself and a fellow Vw owner found or exposed when we stripped the heads which prompted me to post in the first...

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need the connecting bar for thermostat flaps which fit behind doghouse on twinport,using some threaded bar at the moment which works fine but not OG :lol:

Must admit it sounds ok to me but my history with engines isn't that great :msn4: :lol: Was it quieter before then?What has made you think it has got louder?? As Johnny69 and Who have suggested have you checked the valve clearances??

I'd go for a Wedge first then a Romahome second :lol: :lol: :lol:

I run both when the van is drivable that is. As for the heater,mine is an Eberspacher diesel unit fitted under the bed,got the idea from Stuart at Midland Paintwerks,he advised me where to fit the tank and all the other bits n bobs.Gets very hot and sounds like a Harrier Jump Jet on take off...

Hoorah! Put up some pics. Oh welcome by the way.

depends on what your pulling the puck by engine wise i suppose??

Well the blowing exhaust is not the exhaust it is this!! :evil: :evil: :cry: :cry: That's two for two engines now for a certain engine builder!! First one had a knackered sump which took me nearly 3 months to get hold of him to exchange it.Then the second had a fooked sump stud which...

Well the blowing exhaust is not the exhaust it is this!! :evil: :evil: :cry: :cry: That's two for two engines now for a certain engine builder!! First one had a knackered sump which took me nearly 3 months to get hold of him to exchange it.Then the second had a fooked sump stud which i...

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I started a thread probably over a year ago now ref "Twin pipes on a Bay" I have a NOS silencer with twin outlets to go on a Beetle "came with the van as spare part" but when i offered it up it does not tally up with the cylinder heads as in it is too short :roll: i'm guessing it is for a 1200...

You have PM ;) :sick0019:

has a new carb return spring and a whacking big spring with Butty's throttle linkage.