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Archive => Archive board => For Sale => Topic started by: grungeant (Anthony) on December 25, 2015, 01:16:52 am
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Mine. Anybody interested?
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Why u sellin 4thinking6
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I want to go a different, seemingly cheaper route that I think might better fit our life. I think this bus was more than I could handle or afford. I think someone else would be happier with it than me.
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Get a beetle
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I want to go a different, seemingly cheaper route that I think might better fit our life. I think this bus was more than I could handle or afford. I think someone else would be happier with it than me.
Anthony, you may want to post this over on the Fakebook Aircooled Hooligans site for de,md, and south Jersey. its a very active site and you may get a quick sale Good Luck!
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Here's where I'm at right now. I know very little about head work.
I don't know if it's worth the $400 for two rebuilt 1.8 heads from Bus Depot.
I don't know how much it costs to have a head rebuilt. I don't know what makes a head rebuildable or unrebuildable, so I don't know if mine are rebuildable, and if they are would it cost less than $400 bucks?
And if so who do I take them to?
I also am terrible at assessing value. With one valve cover off I can't imagine the bus is worth more than $1500 at least not to me.
So it would seem like it would be worth doing something to the heads to make it work. Or do I just put it back together and leave it as is with a dead cylinder?
I don't know how much it's worth working, however I am sure it is a much easier sell if it starts and runs and drives good.
At the moment with the weather I have very little motivation to pull the engine out again.
So I guess it was a long shot, but I was hoping someone that has seen the bus would want it as is.
I will have a much clearer head moneywise in a month or two, so I probably won't touch it till then... or more than likely spring.
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your bus is worth at least 3k dont take less than that if you decide to definetly sell it Maybe just park it and leave it until the spring to either sell or fix
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any pictures? I may be interested
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1500 I'll come get it?
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1500 I'll come get it?
So would I.
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How about the club having an air raid to help you get it going in the spring ?
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I don't know. It's kind of a mix of money, and fear of the unknown, and possibly a belief that I am just bad luck or this bus hates me.
I have babied this thing so much, and other VW's that I didn't care about I beat the crap out of and they never broke. The guy that built the engine said it sounds like I overheated it. I really don't see how being October was colder than it is now, but I don't have a CHT, so I don't know.
That being said is any rebuilt 40+ year old head just going to be junk in 2500 miles?
And if so should I just throw the cheapest heads I can get on there and get rid of it before it breaks again?
Or should I get the AMC heads on a credit card and keep the bus?
And the fact that engine #1 had a knock right out of the box, and engine #2 didn't make it to it's second oil change it makes me wonder if there could be other stuff that is not up to par inside so it just gives me a bad feeling about spending alot of money on heads.
The other thing too the transmission works good, but leaks oil, and has a slight whining noise at idle that goes away when I step on the clutch.
So if I keep it it would be dumb not to pull the transmission and have it rebuilt.
The only time I pulled a transmission was in a shop with a lift and it went in and out with the engine. So I don't know if my garage is even suitable to get the transmission out too.
And then there's rust. My bus seems like it's at a point where if I act now I can save it, but I don't know how, so I don't know how much time or money. If money is reasonable I can do it, but I don't have time.
So it's like do I just keep it as mechanically sound as possible and accept the fact that one day it will disappear and then strip it when that day comes and buy a cleaner stripped shell?
Part of my problem is I don't know what to worry about, and what to not worry about.
If I had it to do over again instead of buying a $6500 bus and putting another few grand into it before I could use it... then it lasting a year and needing an engine...
I should have just bought a $10-15k bus that was built by a competent VW guy. It would have been cheaper in the long run.
I am so torn. I don't know what I should do or think.
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I would remove the post and put it in the discussion forum until you figure it out.....
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I 2nd the over-haulin'. We have plenty of people knowledgable about engine builds. I always thought it would be fun for the club to build an engine from start to finish. We all encounter this, like when my dash caught on fire. Just wait it out, I know how you all love camping! Camping with a Beetle isn't quite the same.
Just my two cents
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1600 i'll come get it
But no really, what are you selling it for???
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After reading this thread, I realize he is not serious about selling. This thread is a tease !!!
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my advice- keep the bus. You'll always regret getting rid of it.
as far as rust goes- does it effect the structural integrity of the bus? If not, it can wait.
as far as the engine is concerned- take the engine out. Over the winter, get a good repair manual, a heater and some patience. Most of us have learned about engines by slowly taking them apart to see what makes them tick. Label EVERYTHING. Take pictures and documentation. Stop putting extra parts on it and do a solid basic rebuild. All the fancy parts in the world don't mean bumpkiss if the base is trash. If you get stuck on the rebuild, get on the web site and ask for help. And, no offense to Shawn- do it in your own garage. If the motor is right outside your door, you will work on it more often. If you have to drive to it, you'll forget half of what you learn and you'll dread having to go to it.
If this is your daily driver, time for a new car- consider this a hobby.
as far as the transmission goes, if the noise disappears when you press in the clutch, then its not your transmission. While you have the engine out, check your throw out bearing/clutch assembly.
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It's not a daily driver. The rust is on the bottom of the driver's door and mostly the driver's floor and cargo floor spots. There's some in the bottom of the rockers and whatever you call the lower back side of front fenders underneath.
So basically don't buy any parts untill the engine is out and the heads are off?
My clutch was new with the engine 2500 miles ago. I think the noise is my transmission because I changed the fluid and it went away for a little while, then came back but not as loud. I thought throwout bearing only made noise when you stepped on the clutch?
What do you think?
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what I'm really getting at is a basic rebuild should be fairly easy to do. Get a bently manual (if they have them for buses?). Start taking the engine apart by the manual.
When building an engine, no one will check and double check tolerances and adjustments better than the guy that is paying for it/driving it and owning it. if it gets too technical, you have the club.
Find out whats wrong and then buy parts. Otherwise the car is going to be like a stripper- she's not happy unless your throwing money at it.
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Ok yeah. I have the Bentley and the Haynes, and the Muir book too.
I know there is a valve problem. #3 has 0 compression, and with the piston at TDC air cones out the tailpipe when I blow it down the plug hole. And with the #3 exhaust adjuster backed all the way out I still don't have a gap.
George told me the next step was to remove the rocker assembly and recheck the air, and look at the valve stem height.
I've just been so disgusted by it, I haven't bothered because I really don't know what I want to do with it, and I am afraid of opening a can of worms.
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put it aside and wait until the spring! =whiteflag
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put it aside and wait until the spring! =whiteflag
Or the first warm day after income tax.
It's hibernating in the barn.