Case thus far has been reasonably clean. There was a bunch of material on the sump plate.
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 3:47 PM Mike Bucchino Sr <[email protected] wrote: > If you find lots of metal inside your case, you’ll need to remove the oil > galley plugs to get a proper thorough cleaning. There are some dead ends > that can collect metal particles that could later loosen under heat and > pressure and go directly into the bearings. BTDT. Not worth having to > do the job all over again. > > Mike B > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 8, 2019, at 17:14, Kirin Jacobsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey all, > Finally I'm digging into fixing my "New" but wounded 1914. It's mostly > torn apart but its time to start cleaning it. Its been full flowed, was a > new case with new everything with under 1000 miles on it when it had > foreign object damage and bashed up cylinder 3 and its cylinder head. > > Thus far from what I can see the bearings look good. The oil that came out > of it after the damage looked terrible. All the pistons and cylinders still > had their cross hatching on it. Cylinder 3 has some where at the top of it > but all the ring lands are intact but they piston top is obviously bashed > up. Right now my plan of attack is clean the snot out of the block. Most > likely I think I should replace my oil cooler. Will flush out all the oil > passage ways. I'm thinking its wise to check for clearances on the bearings > even though they look good. I'm debating picking up a new set of lifters > since there is some pitting. > > Probably time for a big photo dump so you can see the damage.... > > Happy Friday and I'm sure there will be more questions coming form me in > the near future. > > -- > Visit the VintagVW archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Visit the VintagVW archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
