For a parent who lost a child, it is impossible to go back to the way life was. You can’t bounce back, but you can grow stronger. This thread was titled "Broke Down" because it was the beginning of an honest realization that life was going to change, symbolized through my VW. As many of you know, we lost Emma last September just three days before her 8th birthday. We must grow stronger or become crippled by the pain.Resilience is a virtue that enables people to move through hardship and become better. No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength; if we have the virtue of resilience. - Eric Greitens
This thread is now titled “Resilience” as our VW now symbolizes my family’s path forward. A long time ago, when my wife and I were dating, we’d talk about someday having a family and an old VW camper to take on vacations. This is what we’ve done before and what we will continue to do.
So I purchased the engine above from Aeromech and my plan for it (and the bus) is to prepare it for installation. Aeromech didn’t have much historical information, only that it sat for 10 years in a local garage on the shelf before he got it. It was a used engine with unknown hours and missing the thermostat and flaps assembly.
I asked him for a compression and flywheel endplay check which came back as:
1 - 120
2 - 132
3 - 128
4 - 134 and 0.0035 end play.
Check out this part number on one of the heads. Can identify the manufacturer?
I'll post more photos and project updates soon.
Cheers - Chris