[T3] t3 restoration

[Mike Fisher]

The brakes pulling is probably a plugged soft brake hose or a frozen
up brake cylinder.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Alex Satala <alexsatala at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well , here is the story: The first engine we rebuilt worked well in short
> rounds but after running it for about 10km it started to change its tone to a
> lower one, a heavy beat from inside the engine, after 50km the red oil light
> turned on and that was it , the main bearings failed (the heavy beat) and with
> not enough oil pressure the crankcase got ruined.
> We then moved all the new parts to another more modern crankcase and that one
> worked even better , but unfortunatelly the heavy beat is back (bearings wearing
> out fast) , yesterday we went for a short run and all was fine in the 1st gear
> lots of power , 2nd too but after a couple of hills the engine was moaning
> heavier so we turned back home to avoid destroying this one too.
> Here is what is weird : When cold starting the engine it probably has no oil in
> the main bearings and it make a terrible noise like there's a 1mm gap between
> the crankshaft and bearing, 5 seconds later it starts working normally. I think
> that is what is eating the engines up.
> 2 more problems frustrated me even more , when pushing the newly repaired brakes
> it pulls right really hard (was pulling before too) and the second the gearbox
> is noisy , pulls out of the third gear in wich it also humms (we filled it with
> transmission oil).
> Any advices to these problems is welcomed but i doubt i can do anything to those
> engines without loads of new parts or a fully new engine.
>
> WBR Alex
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org>
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Sent: Tue, July 12, 2011 8:46:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [T3] Remote Starter Switch
>
> On 12 Jul 2011 at 10:38, Alex Satala wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately due to the fact that the second repair atempt of the
>> engine failed i have stopped the restoration of the car for now because
>> i'm running out of time and money.
>
> What's wrong with the engine? Maybe we can help.
>
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