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Any 40hp 1200cc engines out there rusting in somebodies barn?

Hey all:)

I wrote a loooonnngg time ago for advice on how to pull the engine out of the '63 beetle I bought. I believe the clutch plate is fused to the flywheel as it won't budge no matter what I do to it and any more effort on my part is going to wreck it more then it already is:( My next step was to try and dismantle the engine while it was still attached to the transmission, see if I could strip it down more before I try to pull it off again. Well, the damn cylinder heads are rusted on solid as well and I've already broke a few cooling fins trying to get them off. Why am I rambling like this you ask? Well, it seems lots of people want more power in their beetles so don't seem to care for the 1200cc engines as much as the larger ones. Is there anyone that was an old 1200 engine out there in the Alberta, Canada area that they might be willing to donate to someone who just wants to rebuild one? I'd pay all shipping costs of course:) It's just getting so damn frustrating to buy an old beetle to learn how engines work while rebuilding it all only to not be able to even get it off....aarrrrggghhh!!!

Neil

P.S. Anyone interested in donated an old engine send me an email at snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com , thanks all:)

Reply to
Neil Winchell
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I have a 1200 long block sitting outdoors, rusting away.. and two sets of complete 1200 heads, and intake manifolds for them And of course I'm nowhere near Canada :)

And no, I don't seem to be able to GIVE these away, despite them being impossible to find new anywhere. Anyone want them? Shipping is a killer. I would like to get something out of them.

Jan

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Jan

Couldn't you turn it all into a little industrial engine or compressor ? maybe a generator for when you go to shows :-) , oh and a crane to lug it about...

James

Reply to
Juper Wort

For that I have about half a dozen 1600 core engines.. I don't build anything smaller. :D

Jan

Reply to
Jan

You could power a whole circus with one of those !

How about mounting a flexible drive to a sort of clutch on the flywheel & a grinder etc on the other....hey thats an idea. Just leave it running somewhere 'out back' and have a 'shop tool'...... get welding..

James

Reply to
Juper Wort

Hehehe... 1200/1600cc lathe... hmm... I'd be the first in my neighborhood :D

Jan

Reply to
Jan Andersson

If you had any lawn, you could do the first aircooled 1600 cc boxer lawn mower. Or does someone here have one?

Reply to
Olli Lammi

Do you have any idea what shipping would be up to Alberta, Canada? I can't seem to find anyone with engine parts willing to part with them for free anyway...so if shipping (and I'm willing to go with the cheapest, slowest way of shipping too) isn't to expensive perhaps that's still the cheapest way for me to do it rather then take the engine I have to an engine shop and have them charge me obscene amounts to pull it off:) Where abouts do you live? Please don't say Europe:)

Neil

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Neil Winchell

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Ben Boyle

Finland? That's a little bit farther then I had hoped:) My inlaws live in Norway though, maybe it would be cheap to ship it there and then when I move there in a couple years I'll have an engine to work on:)

Neil

Reply to
Neil Winchell

Well as others have pointed out, I *do* live in Europe.. more or less the furthest corner of it... Finland.

Jan

Reply to
Jan Andersson

On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:05:21 +0300, Jan Andersson ran around screaming and yelling:

but Jan, the real question is, when you move to FL will you bring the fellow the engine? JT(LOL)

Reply to
Joey Tribiani

By then it will have to be extricated from the workshop centralised power tool system.

James

Reply to
Juper Wort

Jan,

Let me correct you, if you don't mind. I'm the person who lives on the furthest corner of Europe not you... Portugal.

Joao

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<372262

Furthest from where ?

Reply to
Juper Wort

When I sayed "furthest corner of Europe" I mean on the remote frontier of Europe and I think that Jan was thinking the same about Finland.

Joao

72 Super 1302
Reply to
Joao Eliseu

Nope :) I have enough to worry about with my good engines :)

Jan

Reply to
Jan Andersson

Nah. To that direction, the furthest corner would be in the Canary = Islands that are part of Spain.=20

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Olli Lammi

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