[T3] Tight Engine

William Jahn willjahn975 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 11:09:47 PDT 2018


Meant to say NO expert by a long shot .

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:07 AM, William Jahn <willjahn975 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm certainly by a long shot an expert on these T-4 engines . I went back
> through Keith's posts and this engine is a Raby 2056 based on a 914GA case.
> that's a Porsche case and Raby I assume is a builder or parts source .
>
>  I imagine not sure the heads are aluminum and not cast iron . The only
> point I bring up is if the engine has issues when hot and turns over fine
> when cold , at least that's my take and has 900 miles on it from before it
> was installed and if the heads are in fact aluminum isn't it sort of a risk
> to pull the spark plugs when hot ? My guess is Jim suggested doing so with
> it cold , yet as I said I have no idea what the heads are made of . I just
> wonder how the engine gets it's cool air through the fan since it's in a
> T-3 body . I've seen a post on Samba about how one fellow built a special
> sheet metal cover to adapt the T-4  fan housing's rear most tin to fit the
> T-3 square bellows . Perhaps this has been done , I've no idea. Also no
> idea what the operating temp is when this issue crops up.
>
> William
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> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
>
>> On 31 Jul 2018 at 20:52, Keith Park wrote:
>>
>> > Its REALLY tight when it gets to operating temperature,
>> > will barely crank fast enough to start it if you shut it off.
>>
>> Try removing the spark plugs to see if this seems to free it up. If
>> so, you're just seeing the compression.
>>
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