Engine Thermostat And Flaps

[Tofufi]

Hi!

Crumbs! Nice pic. Looks like the engine is coming out again sometime :roll: I think i need to start hunting for the elusive tinware, the cover and bits over the oil cooler are missing, and i dont think the flywheel end tinware is right, been told it's bug. It's a AE engine.

Cheers!

Alistair

Yes, the flywheel end tinware you have is from a bug.

The bits around the oil cooler are very important to cool running

Best to fit the flaps whilst you have the whole lot apart

Hi!

Thanks, will start searching for bits. The pic is a little old, when i had to do a crank seal change at Techenders due to a "specialist" vw garage in Northampton overfilling it with oil when it was serviced - i was unable to service it myself due to work, and we were off to Glasto a few days after.
I noticed the oil cooler tin missing then, but unable to sort anything.
Now i know whats missing i can return it back to stock. Odd how the tinware is missing, buy stat still there?!
BTW is the exhaust end tinware (pulley end) same on a bug as bus?

Cheers!

Alistair

On a pre '72 bus, the pulley end tinware is the same. Although VW did use different combinations of pulley tin (the small bit behind the pulley that meets the large bit with holes for the heating system), so you might not find that all parts will work with each other.

As long as you've got the right holes for the carb preheat and there are no gaps where it meets the tinware part that goes behind the pulley, you'll be fine. The outer edges of the tinware were the same until the '72 model year.

Yes, it is odd that someone bothered fitting the thermostat, but you can't explain other peoples logic :lol:

My bus had the tinware powdercoated gold... :shock: - and even then, half the tin was missing. So I have one gold cylinder undertray, and one black one. My pulley end tinware is black, but most of the rest is gold. Mine had no flaps or 'stat fitted when I bought it, either.

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[aogrady]

On a pre '72 bus, the pulley end tinware is the same. Although VW did use different combinations of pulley tin (the small bit behind the pulley that meets the large bit with holes for the heating system), so you might not find that all parts will work with each other.

As long as you've got the right holes for the carb preheat and there are no gaps where it meets the tinware part that goes behind the pulley, you'll be fine. The outer edges of the tinware were the same until the '72 model year.

Yes, it is odd that someone bothered fitting the thermostat, but you can't explain other peoples logic :lol:

My bus had the tinware powdercoated gold... :shock: - and even then, half the tin was missing. So I have one gold cylinder undertray, and one black one. My pulley end tinware is black, but most of the rest is gold. Mine had no flaps or 'stat fitted when I bought it, either.

Hi!

The carb pre heat holes and around there seem to fit ok, so i guess it's just the flywheel end tinware, and the flaps and gubbins....

Thanks for your help!

Alistair

 

[matt-me]

I have a pair of flaps, connecting bar and spring for sale, but i don't have the rod, thermostat or thermostat bracket as i needed these. £25 plus postage. If anyone's interested urgently pm me your email address, and i will forward pictures. I will get them uploaded on the for sale section in due course, just i am not too great with the uploading of photos and they are all sotred at home. My missus mailed the photos to me at work though, hence i can forward them easily enough.

Al