CHEAP N' DIRTY TOP END REFRESH - Aircooled VW Engine 1600 Re-Ring and Hone

Taylor refreshes a tired 1600 with a $30 set of rings and a hone stone. Will it be good enough to drive a single cab home from North Carolina?

[@riverbluevert7814]

Good video! My name for the smell of Fluid Film: "Sheep Ass."

[@markjacquet]

Excellent use of a pizza pan. Can't wait to see that single cab motoring on down the highway!

[@48busman]

I like your new roll cart!

[@georgegomez5767]

Your video are awesome I try to be the first to watch them. I learn a lot from your videos that I can’t wait until my uncle by marriage overhaul his fathers white Carmen Gia Beatle very rust free

[@MrOnemanop]

Just found your channel. having done a "One lap of N.A. family vacation in Camper back in '70, I have a bit of nostalgia for this era of V.W. Enjoyed the tech and the process. Hope to see some more.

[@wickedwerks]

Thanks for watching! Definitely more to come.

[@AndersVestlund]

Fantastic and interesting video, thanks for this! Will help with my quick rebuild of my 1600 replacement for my Oval.

[@jeffreydrumm9134]

Thanks for taking the time to video this.

[@mikemoran8757]

Very interesting my good man!

[@efstratiou2015]

Great video!!! Keep up the good work!! Thank you!

[@stephenbrown5580]

~19:00 Speaking about the 0.054 shims resulting in a CR of 7.2:1......I'm thinking that might be on purpose for whomever built the motor last. Seeing as the heads have the grove ground into them this may affect the CR. The deeper those grooves, the deck height tool is not seeing those grooves and essentially the overall area of the combustion chamber is changing. In this case the grooves are creating a rise in the CR. So, with a CR of 7.2 plus the groves maybe the CR was closer to 7.6-7.8 using the 0.054 shims? Using thinner shims your CR may be too high? Just a thought 😁

[@wickedwerks]

But still lower than if I didn’t put any shims in at all 😂

[@dalewyatt1321]

The sibgle cab bit threw me. A video not on YT I gather.

[@wickedwerks]

There’s a very tiny sneak peak at the end of the last video with Clementine. But a video on the single cab has not be done yet. Won’t be until the summer.

[@charlesloar3210]

Great Video!

[@dcmflydude6320]

I refreshed my single port a couple of years ago. It had shims on bottom of cylinders….I think 40 thou. I asked around and no one made copper shims 85.5. I wanted to move shims to top of cylinder and let the copper shim help seal cylinder-head better. Have you ever done that? Is it possible?

[@wickedwerks]

I have not. I’ve heard that VW did this for a little bit on the early T4 engines and then eventually recalled them and stopped putting them in. But who knows if that’s true. I’d be worried about the constant heat cycles deforming the copper and allowing blow by or affecting the head torque; but who knows. I haven’t done much playing around with that and I’m sure a plenty of argument threads on thesamba about it 😂

[@gerolds.1551]

How come that those piston pins got so hot? General overheating of the engine? Lack of lubrication? Anyway, nice job, Taylor! 🤘

[@wickedwerks]

General overheating. I had this engine in my Bus during a road rally. Bus was loaded with a lot of equipment and had to make it up a mountain on the hottest day of the year. Cooked the motor pretty good.

[@vintage76vipergreenBeetle]

The Dynamic ratio numbers of the static compression ratio will be lower. From what I have read. The stock cam should be able to handle 8:0.1 CR. Just my opinion. Are you going to ship the engine to NC?

[@wickedwerks]

No, we’re renting a truck and driving down with all the bits and tools.

[@vintage76vipergreenBeetle]

@@wickedwerks Safe travels, and good luck with your new toy.🤞🤞

[@jamie-r2034]

Are you on Reddit? I recently put a post on reddit with my blue/white bay getting ready for Spring time (Im in Pennsylvania) and thought someone commented back about getting a single cab in NC. Are you "tuskusbeat"?? lol

[@wickedwerks]

Yes I am! Hey dude 😂

[@jamie-r2034]

@@wickedwerks Yo yooo!!! As soon as I heard your story about the single cab & saw the picture, I knew I saw it somewhere. haha!! Glad I found your channel man. Every social media site and youtube is nothing but VW related things. lol Hope to learn some stuff from ya man!!

[@TN-oc3cw]

@@jamie-r2034 I'm just a reddit rando and Taylor took the time to help me get my ghia running via text and phone calls when I was a noob. He's a great guy.

[@ToppsKillz]

Did you see the crack around the exhaust valve on the first head? 21:23?

[@wickedwerks]

Nope, everything looked fine to me in person 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@ToppsKillz]

I could have just been the soot. Thanks for responding I enjoy all your videos,@@wickedwerks

[@wickedwerks]

@@ToppsKillz thanks for watching!

[@tjsean0308]

Never tried fluid film for cutting oil. Do you like it better than diesel or WD-40? Any reason you went with a three-stone over a dingle ball?

[@wickedwerks]

It’s my first time honing cylinders; never tried diesel or wd40. I was going to use PB Blaster if I couldn’t find the fluid film 😂 I did the three stone because that’s what harbor freight had. I couldn’t be bothered with trying to find a dingle ball that would fit these cylinders though I know it would have been better.

[@chriswilson6272]

What are you using to clean those pistons? I can’t make mine look that good

[@wickedwerks]

@@chriswilson6272 simple green, hot water and a wire brush. An ultrasonic cleaner can sometime be helpful, but these were already pretty clean when I took them apart.

[@chriswilson6272]

@@wickedwerks awesome. Thank you

[@davemurton736]

Made me smile 👍