About the Blog


This is a running record of the work Jason and Lena are doing to bring a 1978 VW Bus back to life. She was very close to death's door when we bought her.

We now have a functional vacationmobile that we are taking on adventures. So, this blog has morphed into a travelogue sprinkled with our break-down stories and latest upgrades. Hopefully more of the latter!

Look back in the archive for ALL the work we did to get her where she is today.

Enjoy :)

Suzanne the Van

Suzanne the Van

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Engine Time!

Hello Everyone!  You thought we gave up, but we didn't!

After the last trials and tribulations, we have made some progress on the engine.
Here goes:

Block is together, and the crank turns!
CCing the heads to figure out deck height and compression ratio.
Got it to a nice 7.4:1
Installing cylinders and pistons
Cylinder heads on
Checking the crankshaft end-play (gonna need different shims!)
Cylinder baffles were making me mad!  They got bent up when we took them off - good now:)

Next: Valve train!


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