The most important part of your Weber Carburetor rebuild is cleaning. But what is the most important part of the cleaning? It is cleaning out the fuel passageways, or galleries. Surface cleaning is great but opening up and chasing down the galleries is essential. In this lesson we cover the longest and most important job
The Most Important Part, Cleaning Your Weber Three-Barrel Carburetor. Read More »
Next up on our air-cooled engine build, is installing the intermediate shaft and oil pump. We have already restored these parts and are only installing them in this episode. You can use a standard oil pump or a high volume oil pump. But remember, if you use the high volume oil pump, make sure the
Oil Pump & Intermediate Shaft. How to Rebuild your Air-Cooled Porsche Engine. Read More »
The weber 40 IDA series carburetors have been used on many models of cars and are a great carburetor. Finding a set sitting around dry and corroded is not unusual with carburetors these days. In this video, we will be removing all the parts and preparing for stage two. We show you how to tackle
How To Completly Teardown A Weber Three Barrel Carburetor. Read More »
Cylinder visual inspection. The first part of the air-cooled cylinders inspection process is to perform a visual inspection. If the cylinder is showing obvious signs of scoring or in the case of a Nikasil cylinder if any of the coating is coming off, then it would be either discarded or set aside for machining/reconditioning. Measuring
Porsche Air-Cooled Cylinders. How to Inspect and Measure. Read More »
Piston designs in magnesium case engines In this lesson, we are measuring the pistons, but the magnesium case engines use several different designs of pistons and cylinders. The early 2.0L engines use either a Cast Iron or Biral cylinder. The Biral cylinders have a Cast iron insert with Aluminum fins on the outside of the
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How to inspect and measure these crucial parts of your Air-Cooled Porsche Engine As you take your Porsche Air-Cooled engine apart, you are always looking for obvious signs of damage. Start inspecting your connecting rods and crankshaft as you disassemble the engine. Some damage is very easy to see, you can’t’ miss big broken engine
Porsche Air-Cooled Connecting Rods & Crankshaft. How to Inspect and Measure. Read More »
Preparing your magnesium engine case for re-assembly In our last lessons, we talked about the machine work on your engine case. All thread repair anywhere on the case should have been completed by now. But don’t worry about cleaning right now. It is going to be messy as you de-burr your engine case. So read
Engine Case to Crankshaft. How to Rebuild your Air-Cooled Porsche Engine. Read More »
Must do machine work for your Magnesium Crankcase Magnesium Crankcase line bore In the factory shop manual Porsche says to line bore the crankcase to correct for any misalignment. To line-bore a case, the two halves of the case are bolted together and torqued. A fixture is attached to the front of the case and
Bringing your Porsche Magnesium Engine Case Back to life. Read More »
Porsche Cam Boxes The cam box for air-cooled Porsche is a cast and machined part. Its job is to hold the camshafts and let the lobes of the cam act on the rockers to open and close the valves. When you are restoring a cam box you must first clean and measure to see if
The Aircooled Porsche 911 Cam Box. How to Inspect and Restore. Read More »
Lesson 8 You have made it to the last lesson on the 911 Air-Cooled Cylinder Head, reassembly. As we built these lessons we showed you all of the processes involved. Often we tried to show you how to work with the old components and bring them back to life, or at the least test them.
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