What you possibly did was try to shim out movement in the end bearing (which is utterly futile), and loaded up the "proper" endfloat with too many shims. This will quite reliably lock your crank up
Well some progress has been made - in the quest for finding space in the garage To take the bus engine out, I became sidetracked and unburied the bug. Before Apres Not got me very far with the oil seal though..
Yes - it took 2 hours to do that and jack it up- can you tell me which bit is the engine- I can’t find it?
Many many hours of clearing stuff out and chucking in down the tip, reorganising, moving stuff around and general clearing up allows me to have a small working space to think about dropping the motor. After all that shifting stuff around, I only got as far as jacking the bus up and on axle stands…. this week, I will definitely get the engine out, definitely, for sure.
I helped do one on an orange bus in a field once, should be easy in a garage Pretty sure hangovers were also involved Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
after being guilt tripped into doing something I thought I’d just pop in the garage and take the clutch off and the flywheel - it won!!!
I just ordered one - it won’t be the last time my nuts are too tight. Back to the last minute tax return for me then…,
You've got ages! I used to dump my books on the acc with 2 days to go. They were well ordered though if I say so myself.
Definitely worth getting. Pity you have to pay for the Beetle hub thingies as well, but may be useful to you.