R&R Vanagon engine- links?

[Vanagoner]

I'm taking this week off to put a rebuilt engine (JK mech. n/a) into my westy.
I searched but didn't come up with anything useful for the R&R.  Does anyone know of a forum topic for this which might help with the process?  Otherwise I'll just dive in and have fun.

[Baxter]

Nothing too stressfull.
Undo gear linkage off the box, don't want to bend anything when you lower the engine.
Start at a corner and just work around the engine, I find it better to work like this as you have less chance of getting the engine half way out and it being snagged on a wire (usually the cold start cable! lol)
Remove the dipstick and oil filler tube (separate pieces in europe, but some early CS ones were a filler and dipstick in one)
Cooling system takes 16 litres of coolant, so for a 50% mix that's 8 litres, chances are though you won't get it all out.
I tend to put 6 litres in then top up with water.
Remember if the engine wasn't out of a T3 you may need a spigot shaft bearing (pilot bearing you may call that!)

[Baxter]

Nothing too stressfull.
Undo gear linkage off the box, don't want to bend anything when you lower the engine.
Start at a corner and just work around the engine, I find it better to work like this as you have less chance of getting the engine half way out and it being snagged on a wire (usually the cold start cable! lol)
Remove the dipstick and oil filler tube (separate pieces in europe, but some early CS ones were a filler and dipstick in one)
Cooling system takes 16 litres of coolant, so for a 50% mix that's 8 litres, chances are though you won't get it all out.
I tend to put 6 litres in then top up with water.
Remember if the engine wasn't out of a T3 you may need a spigot shaft bearing (pilot bearing you may call that!)

[Vanagoner]

Thanks Baxter.  I think I'll leave the trans in and brace the bell housing.  I am hoping that everything mates up ok.  Are you saying that the pilot shaft bearing might need to be renewed to a different style that matches the crank in the JK engine?  I do have an early CS in it now.  I got all of the hoses and wires labeled today, started taking off accessories, some painting etc..  
Tomorrow I pull the old lump out (I have a hoist).

[Baxter]

Yep, trolley jack under trans, still disconnect the linkage tho.
Some of the earlier ones ahve engine mountings at 90° to the later ones and the bolts can be a pig to get out so sometimes you have to drop the metal tubes off, i don't like doing it that way but for the dead early ones it has to be so.
The spigot shaft bearing - The vanagon needs on but some VW's, Golfs and that (Rabbit, sorry) don't have a spigot shaft bearing at all, don't put the engine in without one or the spigot shaft will flail around like a dick in a welly top and ruin the spigot shaft oil seal resulting in the contents of your trans ending up in the bellhousing and ruining your clutch.
If it has one already in I would say change it anyway, for the sake of whay I reckon will cost $10 it's insurance!

[Vanagoner]

I'm afraid I don't know what tubes you are talking about.  I am assuming that I can pull the engine out the top with the cast engine mount brackets on it, and switch them when it is out?
     Thanks for stopping your Frank & Pat, I haven't a Danny La Rue some of what you say, but this is huger than soup to me!  
(forgive my attempt at a dialect I don't know!)

[Baxter]

Engine comes out in a downwards manner old bean.
 :wink:
Useful link where you may get a bit more "concentrated" T3 help.
www.brick-yard.co.uk

Simon.

Oh, that rhyming slang thing, that London that is, I'm more "Last of the summer wine", Emmerdale, or Coranation street. I.e the right end of the country, The North, where men are men and sheep are scared!

Yorkshire born, Yorkshire bred, Strong in't arm, thick in't 'ed.
 :lol:

[Baxter]

Oh, and...

You know what a dick is by now surely.
This is a welly (or Wellington boot if you prefer)



get me now?

 :lol:

Just a saying to get the point across that "it's a bit slack"