Aircooled VW South Africa

Dawie wrote:Seeing that you are a technical guy, and as the box's condition is sort of...you know...,
And you are already that far.

Why not loosen the pinion bearing and separate the box for inspection. Remember to carefully mark everything where necessary and keep note of shims. Then show us the pictures.

Dont think Ill go that far - there are just some places that I will not tread
The box might be sort of .............. but i dont want to &%^&&#$&#%$ it up anymore by just having a look
No good having the engine and no gears to push the bus up the hill
Seems the better plan is to get the box to the Van Wyks in Villiersdorp and have them split it open then take some pics if I may and then post the diagnostic for those of yous that might have or could have the same issues with chunks of metal falling out of the drain plug

Well seeing that I had to be in Vyeboom today thought i might take the box to Andrinos
So armed with some choc chip biscuits I arrived at tea time
A cup of coffee and some biscuits over a chat about the history of the bus with Oom Andre
Fetched the gearbox from the bakkie and put it down on the workbench
Asked oom Andre if I should leave my contact details as I was about to leave
To my suprise he did not ask for the numbers but grabbed his trusty spanner and started opening up
"Kom Laat ons kyk wat hier aan gaan "

Opened up and immidiattely saw the problem spacer washer on the one cluster was shot
All the rest perfect
In all his years of experience he says that this is a first !!
So a scratch in some boxes and we find the replacement washer
He hands the whole lot to me and sends me off to the wash-bay to clean and dry everything
Washing up done
Back to table and we put the whole lot back together again

When it came to the ZAR side of things Oom Adre said - this is not for you but for the bus now get out of here !
What a pleasure to spend some time with a man that is very pationate about the work that he does
Pity there are not more of these class of people in our world

Here some pics

Masters hands at work


By lowlightwarwick at 2012-08-24

The washer with the bits that fell out !!


By lowlightwarwick at 2012-08-24

This is were the washer must go

By lowlightwarwick at 2012-08-24

Other cluster


By lowlightwarwick at 2012-08-24

Oom Anre also recons that this is the first time the box has been opened up

So there we have it a day filled with some firsts

Many Thanks to Oom Andre
Will definately get some more work to him and then hopefully his 58 Dove blue and my one will be at the George motor show

One very stoked kombi guy

That's nice...
That is probably one of the earliest "non vertically split" boxes. VW probably had teething issues there that they sorted out later.

really great news, and a great guy as well

Got this back from JP de Kock yesterday
Cost 240 to make and weld in the ends
Ends 130 from Midas
Therfore total cost to referb the ends 500 bucks with some paint to follow

Old and New

By lowlightwarwick at 2012-08-24

Business end


By lowlightwarwick at 2012-08-24

Today willl hopefully close up the gearbox and fix the pan for the Manx

Warwick-Lowlight wrote:Got this back from JP de Kock yesterday
Cost 240 to make and weld in the ends
Ends 130 from Midas
Therfore total cost to referb the ends 500 bucks with some paint to follow

You chicken out on doing it yourself Warwick??

Good news with the gearbox.

My 5c.

That looks very,very weak! Is the threaded bar not to small. Is it not gonna snap??????

Surely 12mm threaded bar would of been better ( It looks like 10mm in the pic).

Hr the ends are standard - lht and rht the idea was to thread the solid bar but the the problem was the lht tap with the 3/8th tread
So just opted for the weld in version
Maybe when the bucks are a bit better will get the correct pressed version

Ja Sean seems I dont trust my welding skills

4ORK! Enthusiasm!.............

Up at 05h00 to get on with a project.

Well done Warwick. Don't think others would do it.

Project early
Family for the rest of the day

Brain fade moment as i forgot to put on the brake backing plate
Well thats the learning curve

Stainless tig 1.2 wire for the crown wheel nuts

By lowlightwarwick at 2012-08-26
Made a puller to get the circlip on

By lowlightwarwick at 2012-08-26

Here the brain fade gap that had me guessing about my assembly


By lowlightwarwick at 2012-08-26

One side completed other one for the morning

Great to see you came right with the box. Great dude and worth while spending time with.

Its the 1% rule. 1% aday is 1% you dont have to do tomorrow and 1% closer to finnish....

Little by little we get there

Was looking at the king and link settup and saw that the rubbers were a bit shot
A few enquiries and nothing exept some real expensive ones from the uk
Found a piece of rubber pipe
One times air saw and there you go

The black chap is the original

By lowlightwarwick at 2012-08-29

C and c 3.45 GBP per rubber and you need 12 - over 500 Zar

another Proudly South African product!