TRASH MOTOR REVIVAL - LETS MAKE IT RUN - 1500 Aircooled VW Short Block Assembly

Taylor disassembles the garbage fire 1500 he bought at a swap meet in an attempt to clean it up.

[@dalewyatt1321]

Wow! Turd polishing, new shop, tons of schmoo. All is well. New shop seems a lot brighter also

[@rrs1550]

looking forward to a startup.....always worth the wait.....

[@bryansmith6000]

New shop looks great!

[@DarrenShemeld]

Great video 📹 👍 👏 👌

[@lynnsabcs]

Good looking new shop!

[@stephenstupalsky8814]

Love the new shop. Learn a lot from watching your videos.

[@steveb9822]

Congrats on the new shop!

[@vintage76vipergreenBeetle]

Nice of you to mention that, you're not building that engine correctly.👍 Congratulations on the new Wicked Works repair shop. Having heat is a nice upgrade.

[@fredgarvin5964]

Nice new shop

[@danielspano3406]

Congratulations on the new digs. That other shop was looked sketchy. lol

[@vwnut1967]

I don't know what you mean when you say that you are not doing this correctly Looks great to me Excellent job. Appreciate you and the new shop. Rachel as well❤

[@oldtasty]

Great to see you back, and really love the new shop. Heat, light, space, and pizza? Sounds pretty damn good to me.

[@TrixedOut]

Is it weird that I felt sorry for that poor engine when you said it wasn't long for this world? Great video! Love the new shop!

[@vintage76vipergreenBeetle]

To rebuild the engine correctly, it would take a lot of time & money to do it.

[@TrixedOut]

@@vintage76vipergreenBeetle I still wonder if it's weird to feel sorry for an inanimate object! 🤔

[@vintage76vipergreenBeetle]

@@TrixedOut No, it not weird.

[@Storkmeister63]

Thank you. I look forward to the next one.

[@bookooc5605]

Oh yeah, I forgot I ordered a shirt! Can't wait to get it

[@culturedredneckgarage3784]

Nice shop! Heat, plenty of room, next door to a pizza place... sounds like you you've scored to me!

[@muzzcovw7674]

Those poor crank gears! 😆 Taylor, I think you'll love that motoseal. I use that or Yamabond 4 now and it is amazingly leak free. As long as it's put on super thin. BTW... that oil pump isn't correct for that engine, it's meant for a later dished cam, 1971 and newer. New shop looks great

[@wickedwerks]

@@muzzcovw7674 too late now, I made it fit 😂

[@muzzcovw7674]

@@wickedwerks 😁 Fits like OJs glove. You know, I saw center mains that looked like that reused a lot years ago, as long as it's run responsibility, it can last a while

[@wickedwerks]

@@muzzcovw7674 you know I’m good to beat the snot out of it 😂 it’ll be dead the same day I install it

[@muzzcovw7674]

@@wickedwerks 😆

[@ob1vw]

We will have to make a Road trip one day to check out the new shop. Awesome that it will have Heat. lol. Maybe get a Pizza.

[@wickedwerks]

Hoping to host a cruise in a couple weeks. Rachel’s got a three state route plotted out for us 😂

[@stevenkrouse4923]

Thank you Taylor, received my tshirt today. Wish I had a single cab....

[@bendarat]

NEW SHOP DAY! 🍕🎉

[@riverbluevert7814]

Congrats on the new shop. Name change to WICKED BRONCO? 😃

[@APeale]

Shop looks great! Are we going to see this motor out on the road, and then implode?

[@wickedwerks]

Likely so 😂

[@gerolds.1551]

Congrats to your new shop! 💪 Did you update your address in google maps already? Does Ben know where to find you now? 😏

[@user-po7tw7yl9h]

Nice shop. I ordered a shirt but didn’t pay shipping. I think I need to change it to shipped. Let me know what that costs. Thanks.

[@user-po7tw7yl9h]

Unless you’re going to Volksfair, then maybe meet there…

[@twescher]

Exschess prescher😂

[@sam03137]

Hey man, just curious on were you supply parts from? My 75 is leaking oil from the valve covers, I’ve replaced the gaskets and still does it, don’t know if the gaskets are too thin or what, just got em off jbug and the seem like they’re too thin or something

[@wickedwerks]

@@sam03137 I don’t like ordering from Jbugs, mostly because their customer service sucks. But they carry the same crap most places do. I believe the valve cover clips wear out over time; they should put up a bit of a fight. Aftermarket clips sucks. I like to run bolt on valve covers from CB Performance when I can afford it. I typically stick to CIP1, CBP, and Wolfsburg West for my parts.

[@sam03137]

@@wickedwerks thanks for the help, the clips still seem pretty good. I’ll check out some options

[@Kanrinin01]

Seriously, you can't show to everyone that you didn't change the crank's bearing. They're so trashed you can see the copper inside, there is no way this line is good, there is no way this engine'll be reliable. I have sorrow for this engine.

[@vintage76vipergreenBeetle]

Watch the video again, and listen to what Taylor said about this engine.

[@wickedwerks]

Yeah I know, I don’t expect it last very long either. I’m simply putting it together to see if it’ll run at all and for how long. I expect it to fail fairly quickly.

[@Kanrinin01]

@@wickedwerks you'll need very thick oil to have some presure at idle when hot.

[@wickedwerks]

@@Kanrinin01 too thick and it’ll overheat. The relief valves are pressure controlled, if the oil is thick enough when hot to keep them closed, the oil never makes it to the cooler. I’m going to run what I normally run. If it dies, it dies.

[@Kanrinin01]

@@wickedwerks yeah but no. The oil pressure relief bypass your oil cooler between 3 and 3.5bars. If your engine is brand new with a good work on the line, yes a thick oil isn't the right move and I saw way too much pressure (more than 7 bars when it's cold). But when it runned some times (lets say passed 10000kms), even with a 20w50 you can hardly pass 3 bars when it's hot. I drive my engine since more than 20 years now, only with 20w50 and I never had any heating problem. An engine who overheat litteraly never happenned to me, even after 1000kms in one shot with my eriba in the back,and I live in a hot place. Usually, after a fresh rebuild, I put some low budjet 15w40 for the first 5000kms and 20w50 after. You'll have a lot of "polution's parts" in your oil and when you open your oil filter, omg the horror you can find in it. For you, this engine are whorn out and you rebuilt it like that, it'll have too much internal oil leak (due to too much playing). If you put a 30mm oil pump, this can limit this problem but with a stock pump it'll be impossible to build enough pressure at idle with an oil like 15 or 10w40. Anyway, so for the long post and good luck to you.

[@tyeharper5046]

Ya know if you really heat those gears up they will fall on without beating them with the hammer. Just saying. Come on you know this.

[@VWJawbreaker]

Congrats on the new shop!