With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

The goal here is...

2011 August 08 08:21

The goal here, with all the activity working on my vintage Beetle, is to get the engine in the car so that I can drive it. After working on the garage a bunch, and then working on the pedal cluster, back to working on the engine. This is where I started on Sunday:

After adding some last bits of engine tin. Green dots mark the breastplate tin. Red dots and blue dots mark the two pieces of plenum that direct exhaust air from the oil cooler under the engine.

Since it was easily accessible for the first time in I hope, for a while, I decided to go ahead and check the depth of the clutch plate. It has plenty of wear left; that's good. Here's the clutch plate mounted, ready for the pressure plate. The clutch alignment tool, marked with green dots, holds the clutch plate in place while the pressure plate is bolted to the flywheel.

Sunday ended, not with the engine installed, but at least in place under the car.