Overheating - kind of urgent

Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliot · 2004-05-04T00:20:10+00:00

We're having a heat wave here in Southern California. Wildfire season has started early, with a few hundred acres already aflame in Camp Pendleton.I have a new Gene Berg thermometer dipstick up the Wonderbus's engine. And on the way home on the highway after picking up the kids the Oil lamp started to glimmer then glow brighter.The air temp was about 90F, and I was driving at 65mph into a slight headwind of maybe 8mph.I parked and when I opened the engine room door I saw that the little rotating contact wire had indeed rotated around and was touching the terminal. The engine must have been pretty hot, I guess, though it did not smell toasty or baked.The engine had recently been taken partially apart by yours truly. I installed flaps, missing bottom tin bits and a thermostat. Everything worked fine as far as I could tell when I reassembled it. Heating the thermostat with a heat gun caused it to expand and flip the flaps open.Alternator is spinning. The engine has an SVDA distributor, which I measured as advancing to about 42 degrees at 3,500 rpm. This is right in line with what John at Aircooled says it is meant to do.I have dual Kadrons. When I last pulled the engine, the linkage got a little bent (Duh Dept.) and I straightened it out, am planning to synchronize them tomorrow or the next day with my handy-dandy Uni-syn.Before I bake my engine, what are the things I better check soonest?

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Hippopotabus 22 years ago

Well I have to say. I had the same problem. I live in SF and last week I drove to Sonora and it was about 90 degrees and oil temp was around 255 degrees pushing a grade. Needless to say, my mechanic installed Scoops on the driver side air intake. We also installed a 74 super beatle air fresh fan to suck in extra fresh air from a tube that runs up to the air vents. My temp now going up the altimont Pass 225, at 70MPH with a head wind. Absolutely one of the best things I could have done for the HIPPO (next to installing Ken Black racing juggs 96mm). Hope that helps.

We made the scoops out of sheet metal from OSH.

Hippo 1972 Westy

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blah 22 years ago

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jjs 22 years ago

Sure, just rub our noses in it. SF. Poor you. :(

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Busahaulic 22 years ago

I sure hope those aren't the same pistons that I got -

96mm - came in a Keith Black box from Mark Stephens... Maybe you paid the bucks and got the forged ones. The cast ones I got had some problems as I have heard others have had - with the ring lands seperating from the piston! -BH

and last week I

was around 255

installed Scoops on

beatle air fresh

the air vents.

a head wind.

the HIPPO (next to

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jjs 22 years ago

I call bullshit. 96mm jugs and pistons? What did you do to control heat problems? Tell us about the align bore, the lifter mods, pushrods, all the rest of the stuff. Bullshit. Super beetle (you misspelled it) "air fresh fan"? What the f*ck is that supposed to be? Like I said, "bullshit".

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David Gravereaux 22 years ago

The fan in the front next to the wiper motor?

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Eduardo Kaftanski 22 years ago

thanks. knew i missed something...

did you know they found a programmer dead pour shampoo on hair massage rinse repeat

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Jan 22 years ago

Southern France :P

Jan

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Jan 22 years ago

Hehehehe, that's Basic... wel, in both meanings of the word.. lol..

Your coding skills are as old as mine ;) (Basic, Turbo Pascal..)

Jan

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Jan 22 years ago

Heh, this brings back memories.. I've driven up and down El Camino Real for a week in 98 or something. Could have been 95. In a Pontiac Sunfire.

Umm.. I think our record is 32-33C.

hehehehehehehehe that's what I've made you think ;)

Jan

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Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliot 22 years ago

Bastard.

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Shaggie 22 years ago

glad i could... :-)

heh heh... terrible.

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jjs 22 years ago

That thing won't pull enough air to add to engine cooling. Check the CFM figures.

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Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliot 22 years ago

Yeh. I peaked with Turbo Pascal. Them's was my glory days. When I realized that programming and I were not a good match.

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Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliot 22 years ago

Ha ha. Of course you're not evil.

Or are you?

Because if you were, that means . . . wait . . . NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo . . . .

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Jan Andersson 22 years ago

Haha! Same with me.. never again.. it's just not for me. I do admire people who master it though. Due to my inadequate skills, I must settle for a position as their boss. :)

Jan

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Wild Bill 22 years ago

HuH! Cheeze take a chill pill dude!

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David Gravereaux 22 years ago

Hippopotabus likes good music. That's what I infer from it.

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jjs 22 years ago

His theme song is "nowhere man".

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ilambert 22 years ago

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