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I got a whole one kilometer of driving in over the summer and am far lighter in the wallet to get the schwim back in form, jeep guys have it way to easy.




Even the motor is round (well the fan housing is).



^ How you should not see your Typ 166 like over the summer.
 
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It takes a lot of effort and funds to get project like this going,I know that.I met few people doing it over the years,helped with some welding but this is not for me.

For my tastes that Giant MTB in background looks like project I can dive head first into.I'm looking for something just like this for the winter :)

Way cheaper to do and ton of fun(not to mention exercise later on).
 
^ the motor is fine and never the problem, it just had to come out and back in a couple times as I worked out major issues. The source of my problems was a original Transmission mount that had the rubber go all "punky' and even started delaminating.





^ this is the POS that caused all the grief, the nut/cam fitting is to adjust the engine crankshaft so the three studded pulley engages the swimdrive.



^ this allowed the transaxle/motor to slide rearward as I was coming out of a ditch at Acquino day where the turning double pulley contacted the swimdrive shaft, destroying the pulley, and that was just the start of the summers woes.

End of Part 1
 
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The joys of VW ownership. Our Vanagon is in year 2 of its mysterious fuel injection / ignition woes.

"Volkswagen - It's Always Fecking Something."

Still, when they work they're brilliant.
 
SO cool!! I see the Kettengrad in the back,,, drove one in CZ for several years. They re super cool but took a lot of effort to keep going
 
Tale of summer woes, Part 2

When the car came to grief in Oshawa I knew there was something else besides the pulley being ruined and initially hoped it was just the shift linkage being out of wack as I had first gear but not reverse or able to shift into neutral (or any other gear for that matter). So back to Ottawa with it and the international search for parts commences, back in the day when I restarted the restoration it was impossible to find transaxles mounts and easy to find a double pulley, today it was reversed, transaxle was just one email away and over here in one week....................the double pulley.....was looking like it being impossible to source. So transaxle mount arrives, motor comes out and I really start beating the bushes for that double pulley. I take a long shot and contact a vendor I had not been in touch with for a long time and suprise, suprise, he has new made pulleys, Money in (FRAUD ALERT)ed and pulley comes in and is it ever nice. Yippee I can put my motor back in the car.



^ replacement pulley arrives L to R, Original-New made-Busted



^ note the use of cut down 7.62 cases to mask off studs for painting
So the two needed items are here (mount and pulley) so I have to come up with a method to swap the mount off the transaxle without removing it from the car (major job to do that). Once the new mount is in the motor gets the pulley installed and motor goes back in the car.





Before the motor goes into a schwimmwagen you have to align the transaxle-motor-swimdrivedrive, here is a handy device I made using my original (cracked) pulley it slides out and engages the holes on the rubber disk/joint for the swimdrive, once thats done tighten the cam bolts and the transaxle is ready to take the motor. Motor is installed and still only first gear forward regardless of all the fooling around to the linkage I do. So now I know something is broken inside the transaxle.
I had intended on taking the Kettenkrad to Ohio in Aug but if the three most knowledgeable Schwimmwagen people in North America are going to be there........... then so is my car.

End of Part 2
 
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Dark Alley Dan said:
The joys of VW ownership. Our Vanagon is in year 2 of its mysterious fuel injection / ignition woes.

"Volkswagen - It's Always Fecking Something."

Still, when they work they're brilliant.
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You lost my sympathy at "fuel injection". The next thing you are going to tell us is that it uses liquid coolant or something crazy like that.
 
Schwimmer woes Part 3.


So far take 166 to Oshawa, break "something", get new transaxle mount and a great little double pulley from Germany, pull the motor, swap out the mount while the transaxle is still in the car, install double pulley, and stick the motor back in the car. #### around endlessly with the linkage and no joy, phone ahead to put folks on notice that I will be rolling in and need help sorting out the problem, so the car is loaded up for the reunion in Ohio and off we go.



^ Representing, one thing I notice is a marked interest in military vehicles by Americans Vs Canadians, Americans will toot, give a thumbs up, salute, stuck in crawling traffic in Toledo on I-75 and having great talks through open windows. Canadians just appear so beat down and uninterested on the road. The American CBP guys will shut down their booths and come over asking a ton of questions and taking selfies (honestly) with it but all because they like the car and not giving me a hassle.



^ At the field workshop. When after 20 minutes the three most knowledgeable subject matter experts say the same thing is broken then I gladly defer to them. So while all the big kids got to roll out and go swimming I am stuck on the beach. Turns out when the car was nose up and the transaxle slid rearwards at Oshawa it applied enough force on the "hockey stick" to snap it off leaving me stuck in first gear. Not something that can be fixed in Ohio and my "restoration mentor" David Crompton in Michigan offered me what must certainly be the ONLY one in North America at no cost.



^ a unique to VW 166 part.



^ The 166 comes back to Canada, pic taken at the Duty Free parking lot at Detroit/Windsor bridge with my awarding of the (infamous) 2016 Bent Prop Award in Ohio. Now I know exactly what is going on inside that transaxle, or at least have a good idea what has failed, when I get back to Ottawa I have to pull the motor (again) and now the transaxle comes out and readied to be run down to Davids shop in MI.

End of Part 3.
 
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What a ordeal. Feel your pain buddy, but it should all come apart really fast now with all the "practice" you've had. :) Like me and my Warn overdrive on my 60 CJ6.
 
Friggen awesome!

At least the nice thing about the chirpy sounding air cooled VW engine is the ease of getting it out. There's a video I found on youtube where the guy drops one out of a Beetle in under 4 min.

What are they like to drive on the road? How fast can you reasonably drive it?
 
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