40 Years Later, Busted VW Bus Engine. Will It Run?

What you want to try to do is make it explode and shoot that way, sometimes it pushes the pressure against the valve, pushes it against the seat a little more and once you get compression like it's water too, it can shoot and then the Break, sometimes clean, but we're going to keep trying for a while and if it fails, we'll remove the valve covers and figure out how to adjust the valves. We know where the fuel goes. I don't want to mess with the timing or anything. because actually it should be pretty decent because you know well it's hard to say but it wasn't removed.

Try again. We're getting pretty good. Let the battery charge again to begin to cool down a bit. Maybe we'll try it. throw a little bit of oil in there and maybe the oil can help work its sealing ability a little harder to get things moving and shaking, this is just two stroke oil, pure oil that you would mix gasoline with. but not mixed, we're going to let that kind of stuff get in there and cover up some things. I think we'll also have to get rid of a battery, let's get another battery and spin it a little faster and that

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help our situation too.

Compression wise, nice house in the background like a battery charger doing this, let's see if we can get it to sit a little more level. The reason I say that is either the gas gets in when I pour it, or it's all going to leak. on the front cylinder, nothing goes backwards so you can get kind of level, you can lower both on both sides, okay, you hear one cylinder has good compression, we're almost like positions where it's going to happen, that's it. a cylinder returns to compression hey, let it charge a little. I'm going to remove the spark plugs and go clean the ends very well.

I'm sure I have a lot of oil on them, it

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eat some. spark plug holding help, pull a zip tie, let's try it again, I'm going to put some gas in it yet, but let me do this, oh, you know what I'm going to plug up, you catch a leak on that side, okay? Where is our button? Look, we have a good fire. We had a good hit. Let's see another one. Let's go baby. Oh, she'll go away. Let's let it cool a little. angle to connect the entire

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, I connect the power to the mode there is like a shutdown and choke at idle.

This is the back of the carburetor. This is where the floating ball is. It's a breathing horn that goes to that area. So I'm going to go fill it up in case the carburetor runs a little bit, it'll have some fuel, okay, then we give it a little bit back in the center, yeah, we give it another chance, see if it goes, we release Full throttle with no spark. Wait man here we go come on it doesn't have much suction that's not a good sign it means it's either a major intake leak or the balance just won't close that's why it's fighting us a little bit let me take a look fast.

To make sure we don't have anything really bad at the inlet, you should vacuum your hand, but probably what's happening is that there's a cylinder that won't close somewhere, so instead of vacuuming through there, it constantly keeps blowing. back from the other one, which will make it harder Start for us, I saw that when I plugged it in, okay, let's run it a little bit more, let's see what we get. Hey, get some rpm out of there. We do that and then it will fly too much, that should close the choke. Here we go. clicking to transmit the sound, right, I was talking about one more shutdown that chokes on the accelerator, ah, let's sit down, I say let's try it one more time so we can try to keep racing if that doesn't happen. we'll take it apart and separate it we'll do a compression test and see what we have for the numbers, okay look a little, that guy's got to go, he's arching off the bench, now I need one more hand.

Sounds like a shot in just one on my side for the most part, let's take the plugs out, do a compression step, uh, test, see what we have for the cylinders and what we can do, maybe to start improving, maybe maybe adjust some valves, that is. side one and two and it has no heat when the plugs came out signal plugs three and four had some heat they were doing something especially number three which surprises me a little bit let's turn this over to make sure the throttle is open, see if this intestinal compression works, that could be a problem for that cylinder, eh, come on, I'm going to take my finger off the internet, this is a new compression tester, yeah, so that's a bust, it has nothing number two, now comes why, uh.

They're called one or two, I'm going to say they probably got the valves stuck open and probably the exhaust valve can be my guess, judging by all the corrosion we saw on the other side, let's flip it over and check the other two. , number three should be something because this one felt like it was shooting and a sneaker that's pretty good again, it's usually the worst cylinder, probably what it was, it was probably when it was stored, that was the cylinder that was with the valves closed and the others are open. I think we can get a little out of this too.

A cylinder sounds like it's running on one because it was running on one. Okay, let's take the valve cover off and see if a valve doesn't come up all the way. This is my guess and that could be due to that deep metallic sound we were hearing, was that the lifter was just stuck against the case and hadn't touched because the valve wasn't pushing it back, yeah, that's why it didn't have, um, no. sucked on the intake yeah they need some clearance too if I went down enough to remove the valve cover okay let's look at that valve clearance check that that valve literally isn't even there the valve isn't is connected, there is the metallic noise.

Right there, the valve is off the latches, so we need to get the top of the cylinder dead center to fix it. See the nuts came loose too, so this is what happened to this

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when you put it away because that just didn't happen. has the lock nut the lock nut has been removed the cylinder head nut just came off completely that stud could have been pulled and run that look at the threads it's common for them to happen well that's the stud that thread once again um that stud head It's possible that the bolt has come out and there is a problem there, judging by the fact that I just put it in my hand, it is already showing more threads than the one next to it, but we will find out in a minute, we are going to remove the valve cover . on the other side and see what we're dealing with, you know, if we see that the guardians should be here somewhere too, there's one right there, so this thing was removed because it didn't have

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, the other initiative and that was like That for a long time. time was fine in its place, yeah, let's look at the other side, let's see what's happening with that, what surprises do we have on this side?

I'm going to have to put that piece of wood, some rust, yeah, the weather got. on this side, boy, come on, let's turn it over for a second and see if the rocker assembly is moving, it's nasty, maybe it's the rockers that are stuck, look at the rest right there, oh, they're nasty outside, full of water at some point that is off that is probably what happened is that they are tied and this stays in the down position and so it no longer pushes, let's hit it a little with the key, we have already been turning it like crazy like it really matters, see if any of them are moving, not a single one, there is some oil pressure, but none of them are moving right, there is a problem on that side, we are going to remove the rocker arm assemblies on both and I can't get a better idea of ​​what's going on.

I said we're still in playback mode. I know everything has to fall apart and everything has to be done, but again, we're just having fun. I turned off the battery charger, so we have to listen. the washer broke in half and came loose, get out of there, it's got the valves holding it in, it's probably cocked a little bit and now they're moving forward so they're tied tight, let's put the push rods on the crank. and we'll just feel the push rods, where our cord is, it's still hiding there, okay, let's see if the push rods move, yeah, okay, I'm going to clean up some schmuchma from here with a little bit. of wire wheel wrapped in carb cleaning, let's rinse that crap out a little bit and I think I've got one that's already a little freed up instead of ruining this one, maybe we'll just fast forward and get some rockers that are moving then still We have to deal with the other side, but first let's give them a little bit of who your dad is, see if they're moving freely, that's a good one, that ending has more of a B flat, I think one has a problem, I think that a valve broke or it has a broken valve because how far it sticks out and the stem is still attached to the head, you can see how far it came out, unless yes, then that's I have a beet valve, it broke in the stem and valve is probably inside the cylinder.

The weather literally broke now, but it had a different sound when I hit it. I have a feeling it's probably corroded on the back. from him and he just fell. I'm going to try to turn it by hand very slowly, we'll see if the piston goes up and hits a valve, there it just fell off, go the other way, yeah, that's when you want it. to call it is dead, it literally dropped a valve by hitting it with a hammer, so I have no problem with us breaking it up and removing the rest of the junk.

You want to go see how good the interior looks. Well, why don't we go look? a bunch of junk on the top and uh it was free and yeah possibly a couple of ease parts possibly the bottom end is ok and that clang was on the top side in that case you could just put different heads on. in it and you know all the cans, but we're not going to know that, so we get into it and we have to take it apart anyway because that valve is closed, it's not off type, but it's definitely closed, so we're going to Sin more preambles, I barked and got some hardware out of there, well guys, I decided to take it and let's break it down, we'll do the next one, tearing it down, we'll see what's going on inside, in a separate video, I'll try not to make two hour videos, which is starting to become my norm.

You know, we'd finish it for this one. I'll put it on the engine mount. We will continue. Break it down to the bottom, see what happened to the internal parts, so stay tuned, we'll talk about that shortly after. I think this cylinder, the jug will come with it, okay.