Replacing the Engine in a 1969 VW might sound challenging or intimidating, on the other hand it's actually a quite no problem mode. A VW air-cooled Engine simply hangs from the bell housing by four bolts, so aside from wrestling the Engine in and elsewhere, replacement is a concern of remembering where wires and hoses pep.
Instructions
1. With the convinced battery cable removed, jack up the rear of the machine, and put jack stands under the torsion arm on Everyone side.3. Remove or unplug the wires running to the generator and to the coil.4.
Don't lift the vehivle to the entire spread out heighth of the jack.2. Remove the heater hoses, air cleaner, and 8mm bolt holding the accelerator cable, and push the cable back concluded the fan shroud.
Under the automobile, remove the plastic bellowed heater hoses and the heater box cables. Remove and clamp shut (with vise grips) the fuel border, and pull the accelerator cable remainder of the Exit the back of the shroud.
5. With the jack positioned under the Engine, centred on the oil strainer, remove the two 17mm nuts at the top of the motor, located between the fan shroud and the firewall, at the top of the bell housing. Then follow with the two 17mm nuts exactly opposite at the bottom.
6. Pull the motor directly toward the rear of the car, pulling on the muffler, until it is free from the two lower studs at the rear and lower the engine to the ground onto stacks of three 2-by-4 boards. Remove the jack from the motor and jack up the car ahead of the frame horns, high enough To admit the motor to be pulled out from under the car.
7. Reinstallation is the reverse. Line up the lower studs with the holes in the bell housing and push the motor flush onto the transmission and reinstall wires, hoses and cables.
