Aircooled VW South Africa

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2011 1:00 pm**

Is it just me, or is there something funny about this?

AP028761

I can not find out what the AP is?

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2011 1:14 pm**

Type 4 1800.

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2011 1:19 pm**

mmm, so not the original engine...

Which Type 4 was the better one of the lot?

Thanks for your wisdom Fig.

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2011 1:27 pm**

The 2-litre is the most powerful and gives best fuel economy, but the 1700 and 1800 engines rev more freely (lighter pistons). A 72 bus should originally have had a 1600 type 1 engine or 1700 type 4 engine. The 1800 will work well in your bus.

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2011 1:31 pm**

According to the Mplate, it had a 1700 in, and according to one of the PO i looked up, it wasn't reliable, at all, he mentioned something about it dropping valves, or seats or something all the time... did about 2000km, in nearly 10 years.

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2011 6:00 pm**

Dappermuis wrote:According to the Mplate, it had a 1700 in, and according to one of the PO i looked up, it wasn't reliable, at all, he mentioned something about it dropping valves, or seats or something all the time... did about 2000km, in nearly 10 years.

Dropping valve seats is probably the main weakness of type 4 engines; this is almost inevitable on any type 4 engine that has run hot for any length of time. If the heads are properly rebuilt the problem can be solved.

Make sure that the engine is proplery tuned and maintained and has all its cowlings and tinwork and engine-to-body seals and a type 4 engine should be totally reliable.

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2011 6:02 pm**

What kind of camper do you have? How about some pics.

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2011 6:06 pm**

72 Dormobile, in work in progress

Iron Lion of the Netherlands is my role model.

http://i669.photobucket.com/albums/vv60 ... CF7027.jpg

I was planning on going to KKK when I still lived in PTA, earlier this year, and the the gearbox broke...

Took me long enough to finish it, tried selling the bus, nobody is interested. So now I am rigging it for overland tours.

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 6:50 am**

I have seen this LHD bus in pta before, in mountain view.

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 7:25 am**

fig wrote:
Dappermuis wrote:According to the Mplate, it had a 1700 in, and according to one of the PO i looked up, it wasn't reliable, at all, he mentioned something about it dropping valves, or seats or something all the time... did about 2000km, in nearly 10 years.
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</BR>Dropping valve seats is probably the main weakness of type 4 engines; this is almost inevitable on any type 4 engine that has run hot for any length of time. If the heads are properly rebuilt the problem can be solved.
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</BR>Make sure that the engine is proplery tuned and maintained and has all its cowlings and tinwork and engine-to-body seals and a type 4 engine should be totally reliable.[/quote

Who would you recomend for rebuilding heads?

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