Project Frankenweenie

[Riekert]

O, you're in Sandbaai... Gill's aunt lives in Sandbaai.

Yeah. Work in hermanus and live in sandbaai

[Riekert]

Hey guys. Need some help... How can I rewire a 12v alternator setup to work with a 12v generator?

[Riekert]

Oh also any help IDing this motor?

Any help will be awesome. Evetything I can dig up is that its a 1600. But got conflicting info saying its a 1200:???:

[Tony Z]

thats not a 1200

look for info on the AD letters. SF is a South African letter stamp (rebuilt I think)

[Riekert]

Thanx tony. Most of the info I get on the AD number tells me its a 1600. But the guy who I bought it from said it was a 1200/1300. So really confused

This is what I got from the samba :

"Type 2 engine
AD 1971-73 1600cc 50bhp DIN. Non-USA."

So it should technically be a 1600 bus engine?

[buggyfan]

Hey guys. Need some help... How can I rewire a 12v alternator setup to work with a 12v generator?

do you want to convert from a 12v generator to a 12v alternator????

[Riekert]

Hey guys. Need some help... How can I rewire a 12v alternator setup to work with a 12v generator?

do you want to convert from a 12v generator to a 12v alternator????

Nope other way around. Seeing as the beetle is wired for a alternator and I've now put a engine in that has a 12v generator

[MarshallGTi]

just the wiring on the regulator needs changing i think.
AD is a 1600 beetle motor same as mine.

[Tony Z]

get an alternator. More money you say now, but they are also much more reliable

[Riekert]

Thanx guys! Sweet deal on the 1600 hehe. I've got a 1600 twin port that I can rebuild too so yay!

And Thanx will get a alternator then

[Riekert]

Swapped the notches rostyles for the beetles now the beetle can almost go for roadworthy. Just need to sort engine and brakes.

[Riekert]

So the flywheel nut came loose on the beetle. how that happened I dont know.

Anyhow. Got it back on and sorted. But struggling my ass off to get the motor back... Sigh...

Anyhow... Some pics.

[Tony Z]

a stock weight engine is easy to get in and out.
1x trolley jack and 4 bricks is all you need.

Drag engine under car into engine bay.
Lift one side by holding onto cylinder head cover
put brick under exhaust.
lift other side, put brick under.
repeat until engine is 2 bricks off ground.
put jack under engine, lift and install.

Now the question... did you put that flywheel back onto that crank?
Flywheel is fkd
crank is fkd - look at the ridges around the dowels (I am not even mentioning the state of the dowel holes).
did you set endfloat properly?

The flywheel probably wasnt torqued down properly in the first place.

[Riekert]

Thanx

New flywheel old crank...

Would it be at all possible to redrill the crank?

Otherwise I'm fooked

Endfloat still seems fine

[retrovan]

Sorry to say, thats a full engine rebuild, that crank will have to be welded and re-drilled at best
And it will have to come out to do that.
Else you f%$k-up the rest of the engine.

Herman