Something like this Preserve that ‘once in a lifetime’ patina roof with some high gloss clear coat. Counterpoint with lovely paint elsewhere and it would look lush. It’s your project so please feel free to ignore my ramblings and have it however you want - it was just a suggestion as the roof looked so gnarly Stirlingmoz
Love it loads.............well worth a consideration. Educate me more on the process involved. How is the rusty metal dealt with to preserve the look for clearcoating, and maintaining a smooth rusty finish. I like it.
Another thing to watch out for. If you need to replace the heat exchangers, T25 ones are too long to fit a bay - "square port" late bay ones will be the ones you need... unless the engine has been rebuilt with oval port heads because someone had them, or like me had the choice and decided on oval simply because I had heat exchangers to match. Always we must look at what we have, 40-50 years is a long time and right in the middle of that, they were worthless scrap only fit for bodging on a shoestring so....
I dont see any CU engine numbers listed here https://www.busdepot.com/identifying-engine-codes. Is that strange??
The CU is a typical type 2 T3 (or T2.5 looking at part#) vanagon engine model years 1980-1983 with 2000 ccm and 70 hp air cooled with 2 carburetors. Something like the successor of the late CJ engine from the T2. The CV at busdepot website is only for export with injection - so not common in Europe and other destinations. The list at busdepot website is incomplete - not only CU is missing....
Just to confirm that my bus does have matching numbers with the engine number listed in the VRT cert.
but it is not original by VW mounted inside your 1978 T2 bay window - also not by VW South Africa - it is from the later T3 vanagon, that somebody exchanged the past decades, because the old original engine probably died. But you're not the only one with a CU engine in a bay window. Good thing: all the mounting issues solved. Bad thing: it's a chimera - you always need to decide if you take T2 parts e.g. from CJ or T3 CU engine parts. Not all will fit out of the box.
I dont care what it is, so long as I can identify it from the engine number for the important parts. After that I will take whatever i get to fit it.
I think I am in the ball park with most of the tinware. I suspect I am missing a part that fits around the lower parts of the cylinders on one side, but until i remove the engine and refit what I have, I wont know for sure, but sure isn't that part of the fun with a classic.
Which it is, which came off my late bay CU engine. To be honest I never removed it, so I have just contacted the previous owner to confirm that this is the tinware that was attached to the vehicle.
Sure... if you were going to install it into a T25... or has the engine bay been modified to make it fit the tinware? I see about 10 pieces, about half of which won't fit a bay, so you have about 30-40 pieces to find still.
The tinware I have seems to match what I can see in this post which is a vanagon engine. https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=734069
I've looked at so many pics of type 4 ,Cu engines over the last few days trying to decipher the tin ware i have, and the tin ware I need, I cant look at any more at the moment. So will wait on the manual if it ever gets here. My eyes need a break, before my head explodes
Hats off to you Zed. I had a look for any signs of modification on the tinware I have, and sure enough there are signs alright. Along the edges of the left hand corner piece, and the cooling tin on cylinder 3/4 edge. Thanks for the heads up, much appreciated
