<VV> Cam Bearings

[Rad Davis]

The bellhousing is on their transmission, and is only held on by four 
studs.  I suspect that they open the holes the studs go through a little.

There is no equivalent to our accessory housing.  Their oil pump is mounted 
in a cylindrical cutout in the pulley end of the case.  This must also be 
line-bored to the OD of the oil pump.

Personally, I think line boring the cam saddles oversized and putting in 
bearing shells like the crank uses probably makes the most sense.  Yes, it 
would be a machining cost, but it would also fix the problem forever (or at 
least as long as you could get more bearing shells) without the need for 
any machining in future.



At 07:04 PM 2/5/2006 -0500, BBRT wrote:
>How do they handle the bellhousing and the equivalent of our oil pump housing?
>
>Chuck S----- Original Message ----- From: "Rad Davis" <rad.davis at comcast.net>
>
>
>>The VW crowd solution to a similar problem on the type I-III VW engines 
>>is to cut a few thousandths off of the mating faces of the case, bolt it 
>>together, and then line-bore crank and cam bores both.  They have 
>>removable bearing inserts for both crank and cam, but the cases are so 
>>flimsy that they frequently pound the webs out of round.
>>
>>It saves you the welding step at the expense of more boring machine setup 
>>time.



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