Aircooled VW South Africa

Came across this add....had to share
http://www.gumtree.co.za/a-replacement- ... 0171216809

"LET US REBUILT YOUR OWN ENGINE AND SAFE THOUSANDS..COMPLETE REBUILT BY ENGINERING SHOP.MAKE USE OF THE LATETEST TECHNOLOGY...STOP OIL LEAKS.. RECON OF BOVE HEADS..INSERS ON CASING IF NESCARRY..CUT AND BALANCE OF CRANK..CONRODS FLYWHEEL .. LINEBORE..NEW MAINS..BIG ENDS..RINGS..CAMBUSHES..CAM FOLLERS..FULL GASKET SET..OIL PUMP..PRESSURE TEST OIL COOLER..OPENING OF OIL JOURNALS..DRILL EXSTRA HOLE ON CASING FOR BETTER OIL RELEASE INTO CASING..INCL 6 MONTHS GUARANTEE.. COURIER SERVICE NATION WIDE .. "

Kiff!

Befok ek sê…

The sad thing is I read this add a while back and did not even pick up on the "eksent"
Guess my Boere chommies are having an effect on me!

There are some guys from Pretoria currently offering R5000 rebuilt engines I wouldn't touch those wif a pole ek sê
But then again: these could be done up perfectly and run forever.
Armand

Nooit bru ?

The before and after pics prove there is allot of "rattle can recon" being done, I dont know what these chaps charge but like Armand says a 5K recon is probably gonna bite ya !

Hey ou's I are got some omo en diesel for cleanings and I are got some spray cans for painting, are dat meaning I can now also like to be rekonditon da VW motors?

Silwer en swart gee hom voema!

Fok My Machine shop costs are more than that and then we still need to build the sub and supply pistons etc not even completely assembled to a starting motor
must be a goos S/H engine

Hahaha! I spotted that ad a while back and figured that was an engine supplier to avoid. It reminded me a of something that happened a couple of years ago.

A friend of mine, who is notoriously reluctant to spend a buck and who will remain anonymous, was horrified that I'd spent about R24k to build a 1776 engine. He thought I was a fool to spend more on an engine than he would on a whole car.

He called me one day to say he'd found someone selling "rebuilt" turnkey engines for R3,500. I pointed out the cost of the rebuild parts would be more than that, never mind machining and labour. He said I was just being negative and asked me to come and check them out with him, which I reluctantly agreed to do.

So the next evening we travelled to some dodgy area of plots between Soweto and Lenasia and found ourselves waiting in the dark alongside the N12 for our contact to come and fetch us, as his directions were unintelligible. The guy rocked up in a crusty metallic green 67 Beetle which emitted huge flames out the exhaust on overrun and which broke down on the short drive to his plot ...

Whe we eventually got to the plot we could see several scrap Beetles haphazardly parked about the place, half hidden in the long grass. I wasn't keen to get out of the car as I had seen enough to confirm my suspicions about this "engine builder", but my friend was determined to view the merchandise. We were led into a "workshop" containing a hackjob Beetle with an Isuzu engine and most of the body constructed from chicken wire and bodyfiller, with piles of greasy engine parts strewn all over the floor. On the bench was a freshly silver rattlecanned engine that was allegedly newly rebuilt. Among all the trash on the bench and the workshop floor there was no sign of any packaging from all the new parts the guy claimed he'd used in the rebuild. A closer look at the "rebuilt" engine showed it was a 1200 case with 1600 fittings and about 5mm of end float on the crank. By then even my cheap friend was convinced his R3.5k would not be well spent and we departed into the darkness empty handed.

To those who are new to the hobby or who are running an ACVW on a very tight budget, beware of these kinds of offers; there are lots of them on the online classifieds and there's no way their engines are rebuilt with anything more than a coat of paint.

This little story has reminded me of the engine that came in the ice cream kombi I bought a few months back. That engine was a textbook case study in what to look out for when buying an ACVW. I took lots of detail pics of all the bush mechanic horrors on it. I must dig them up and start a new thread to inform newbies.

Hi Bugger

From a Newbi's perspective that would be NESCARRY you can have pics of BOVE engines the propper and the bush job, with the proper INSERS for referance purposes.

Just cant shake this feeling, my eksent is changing

eahmod wrote:Hi Bugger

From a Newbi's perspective that would be NESCARRY you can have pics of BOVE engines the propper and the bush job, with the proper INSERS for referance purposes.

Just cant shake this feeling, my eksent is changing

i`ll take some Pics of the next engine we building for referance and I am sure Impi have a Pic or 2 that he can Post hee of internals

Alighn Bore ----------------R1500
Balancing-------------------R880
Re Profile Cam shaft -----R500
Lighten Flywheel ----------R400
-----------------------R3200 just to give you an Idea where our R13000 comes from for a REcon now ad the Pistons,M/B,B/E Cam bearings conrod resizing etc and Labor

Bugger wrote:

eahmod wrote:Hi Bugger

From a Newbi's perspective that would be NESCARRY you can have pics of BOVE engines the propper and the bush job, with the proper INSERS for referance purposes.

Just cant shake this feeling, my eksent is changing

i`ll take some Pics of the next engine we building for referance and I am sure Impi have a Pic or 2 that he can Post hee of internals

Alighn Bore ----------------R1500
Balancing-------------------R880
Re Profile Cam shaft -----R500
Lighten Flywheel ----------R400
-----------------------R3200 just to give you an Idea where our R13000 comes from for a REcon now ad the Pistons,M/B,B/E Cam bearings conrod resizing etc and Labor

I think that is quite reasonable..

Ten minste probeer hy...As hy die advertensie in Afrikaans gesplaas het sou nie een van julle rooinekke geweet het waarvan hy praat nie