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rrlund · Sep 12, 2015

If you take a carburetor,or a Volkswagen engine apart and put it back together enough times,eventually you'll have enough extra parts to build a second one.

Super Steve · Sep 12, 2015

sounds about right. A 1996 Volkswagen Jetta is the reason I didn't finish becoming an auto mechanic. I still have nightmares because of that car.

J. Schwiebert · Sep 12, 2015

How is your German when you are done working on one? I had a manual for the 6000 series Deere tractors and the last 2 steps of the one trouble shooting chart were in German instead of English. Who ever wrote the book must have decided if you did not solve the problem by then you needed a lecture, maybe?

Goose · Sep 12, 2015

Same with the Mercury outboards when I was in the business 30 some years ago. Haven't kept up on them lately, but back then Mercurys were far harder to work on than other popular outboards. They were designed by a German, Karl Kiekhafer. It took a wrench just to remove the engine hood, and things went south from there.

Bill(Wis) · Sep 12, 2015

"German engineering, the Volkswagen way."

01gentdc · Sep 12, 2015

thatys funny

notjustair · Sep 12, 2015

Through the years I think I've had about 30 air cooled VWs. I would buy some just to dismantle and have full parts bins.

You would be shocked to know how many things on this farm are working because of the VW parts I put on them. When I worked on something and had left over pieces I always throught it was because I was a much better engineer than they were.

I had one that I drove for years just out of college. I built an engine for it and drove it about five years before deciding to do a ground up restoration on it. When I pulled the engine I found that I had only put ONE bolt in to hold it in those years before. The other three were as empty as could be. I'm surprised I didn't shove the engine out just pushing in the clutch. Still have the show car, but now it has all four bolts and gets driven on nice days. Seems like a waste of good bolts when they are clearly overkill.

CenTex Farmall · Sep 12, 2015

You missed your calling as an Engineer!

Makes me think of late 70's GM cars how they went from four bolts on a two barrel carb down to two.

sammydwm · Sep 13, 2015

On my first ship our main engines were Cat D398s. After any big job we would end up with about a coffee cup full of various nuts bolts and washers.
Every engine room had 3 or 4 cups full of stuff in the work bench drawer.
Still kept right on chugging along with a lot less leaks than the Waukeshas they replaced

Bob · Sep 13, 2015

I duuno about that... I think Volks got it right in the commercial linked below???
German engineering in the haus???

Traditional Farmer · Sep 13, 2015

Salvage yard owner and good friend of mine near me got his start dealing in Volkswagon
Beetle parts.He started with basically no $$$ and an old worn out farm turned it into a parts yard and now is a millionaire several times over.He bought out the biggest US car parts yard around this area after they went broke a couple years ago and they used to laugh at him at salvage auctions for buying VWs.

MarkB_MI · Sep 13, 2015

A very entertaining book is John Muir's "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot". I don't recommend it as an actual repair manual, though. As I recall, he explains how to torque the flywheel using a cold chisel and a claw hammer: the nut is properly torqued once you've sheared off a corner of the nut.

Bill(Wis) · Sep 13, 2015

Very, very funny! (;>)),

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