Hippie's Engine Rebuild

[Amskeptic]

Oh. Uhhh maybe after the discussion of vacuum leak vs soft seat?

Shall we take it to the Type 2 forum? It would join a bunch of engine rebuild biographies,
"Hippie's Engine Rebuild- the heartwarming journey of an engine nursed back to health"
but we can use " '69 1600 Loss of Power" in the Engine Forum thread for your dry technical questions which I invite you to ask frequently.
Yaah?
Colin
(done by fiat)

[Hippie]

Thanks, Colin.
It's not Fiat though. It's a boltswaggin.

[chitwnvw]

How's it coming along, Rob?

[Hippie]

Hi, Chi. I haven't touched it. Got nuthin' goin on with it. It's sitting in the driveway like a lump, I'm embarrassed to say.
I guess I just don't feel like fixing it anymore. Maybe when the weather turns to spring. Fix it or sell it.

-Rob

[Gypsie]

I know and understand. Sunshine and longer days will soon be here. Hope it lifts yer mekanikin' spirits.

[Hippie]

Thanks..ya...I'll get 'er done when I feel that certain springtime urge to Bus.
Been a mild winter, but still had other things to attend to.

[Amskeptic]

Hi, Chi. I haven't touched it. Got nuthin' goin on with it. It's sitting in the driveway like a lump, I'm embarrassed to say.
I guess I just don't feel like fixing it anymore. Maybe when the weather turns to spring. Fix it or sell it.

-Rob

Take a nice deep break.

[Hippie]

If the engine just needed parts, I'd have it done, but it needs machine work or a new ca$e.

[hambone]

You will not sell your bus.
It is Iowa winter, fix that damn engine perfectly. You will be happier for it.
May be able to get ya a deal on a new case, how much do you have to spend? Or get a rebuilt short block from a California outfit.
It is silly to give up already. The corn is dead and frozen and just rows of tiny stumps. 100 MPH wind howls over their ends.

[Hippie]

I don't have time to do anything right now. Maybe summer.
Its funny, after not driving it for a long time, getting busy, and even picking up a few cheaper hobbies, I look at it sitting there, and don't even have any desire to drive it anymore.

[Sylvester]

I don't have time to do anything right now. Maybe summer.
Its funny, after not driving it for a long time, getting busy, and even picking up a few cheaper hobbies, I look at it sitting there, and don't even have any desire to drive it anymore.

I protest such a a statement!

[Hippie]

LOL ^^^ That's a good one.
When I get unburied with work, and the weather turns springy, I'll fix 'er up, I'm sure.

[Amskeptic]

LOL ^^^ That's a good one.
When I get unburied with work, and the weather turns springy, I'll fix 'er up, I'm sure.

No, no, no need. We'll get you a nice used Mitsubishi VanWagon to cram yourself into and you can enjoy that despair that comes with a utilitarian transportation appliance that insults you a thousand subtle ways as the color-keyed plastic parts shed off the interior appointments, as the buzzy little inline 4 coarsely tells you that it never heard of Ferdinand Porsche, as the little wheels spin like a turned over black beetle trying to right itself in sand, as your poor bus languishes in the driveway, "I want to run!"
.... Colin

[Hippie]

Will the Mitzi have heat?

[Amskeptic]

Will the Mitzi have heat?

Well of course. And then a little more. And when spring does arrive and summer too, and the sun is baking that brown plastic dashboard a weird shade of greenish, on a humid 90* day, it'll pump some more heat through the engine cover, and then more still. People will wave at you gaily, but it won't be like they do with your VW, "hey mister, want me to call an ambulance?" "Nah, it's just the engine cover making me a little woozy..."

NHTSA Item Number: 52**0
Service Bulletin #: TSB971**02
Replacement #:
Vehicle/Equipment Make: MITSUBISHI
Vehicle/Eqipment Model: VAN/WAGON
Model Year: 1990
Mfg Component Code: 061**0 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE

"1995-08-24 00:00:00 Marina, CA
Consumer was driving the water cooling was in an open position so the engine got hot and melted"

That's right, the engine got hot and the consumer melted.
Colin
( numbers ** to protect my lies, my d**ned lies)