Alma Jo, Maybe we should start a health care plan for our VW;s. From what I hear health care providers make alot of money! Were the blown pistons on the same engine, and was that the one that got a new engine? Let me know where you got the new engine from, so we DON'T GO THERE! On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Alma Jo Barrera <patchmongrel1@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > ** > I know how you feel. > > I just (Saturday morning) lost engine with 992 miles. froze up. over 2 > grand. > > blew #3 piston coming home from The Classic in April 2011. > > blew #1 piston coming home from The Classic in April 2010. > > Oh yea. and my 61 bug spit out a plug. Threads and all :( > > Alma Jo > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Paul Smith <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx> > *To:* tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Sent:* Monday, September 26, 2011 7:46 PM > *Subject:* [tcb] Re: t@p pain and jeapordy > > I feel your pain , good luck on getting it fixed > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 26, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Cari Smith <cariandpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The other Paul Smith and I have worked to get the bus back to road > worthy shape in time for T@P, but we are getting down to the wie. Here's > our problem. We have a fuel/air mix problem that we can't seem to kick. > Symptoms are a bus that does not idle correctly and Paul has to 3-foot it at > all stops. That's one on the clutch, one on the brake, and one on the gas > to keep us from stalling. The first and easiest answer is to adjust the > idle. The screw does nothing and based on our Muir book, we cleaned the > carb. Now will hold a fairly steady idle , but it's too low. When you > engage the transmission it dies. Or when you rev the throttle, on the way > back down to idle it goes too low and dies. So far we have: cleaned carb > with carb cleaner, cleaned air filter, replaced fuel pump and rod, replace > valve cover gasket (unrelated), replaced spark plugs, checked timing, run > compression test... all is good. The only thing we havent replaced is > points, but I surely would have thought fouled points would show up in the > compression test. > > Any words of wisdom, we're caught between takinging it to a mechanic down > the street for God knows how much moolah, or skipping Transporters > altogether, which really means we would still come in our pontiac and just > camp in a tent. > > Help! > Cari smith > >