cooling/tins ??

Hi all, question if you don't mind, I have a T2 under restoration with a Type 4 motor. When the engine builder rebuilt the engine he did not fit the tin work between the push rods and the barrels, does this cause cooling problems. An additional point is that the headers have been replaced and don't have the heat exchanges on them, considering this does it need the outer times?

Thanks!

Mark

 

Yes ...and do you need some?

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In everything I’ve read it’s always been recommended to fit these. IMO

 

Yes! The air deflectors under the cylinders are probably the most important bit of tin.

 

Why were they not fitted ...did he not have them . this engine builder really should have known better and should have talked to you about them being missing , and to source some .

 

thanks all!!

 

I purchased the van on a whim, it had a rebuild engine that was not fitted and the van had been abandoned at the garage, acme in with with a blown engine, long story!

 

Ah so it's out the motor ..well thats alright get all of the tins ...check out what's missing and get them all . Look on the tin ware diagrams in manuals or on the net .
There is a guy sells allsorts called VW parts emporium ...has a lot of tin ware for sale or Megabug .
Parts emporium geezer is somewhere near Hitchin on the Bedfordshire border i think .

 

Welcome to the forum by the way

 

You need them fitted, I may have some if you need some

 

... and I think they're supposed to be fixed with M5's not M6's like all the other tinware..