Rare 73 bus in need of help!
 

Sounds like a resonable price to replace it with a rebuilt engine. The TIV
is much more costly to rebuild than the T1 (of which a gazillion were made
up unitl recently). Ya might try a local votech school where you pay for
parts only and student do the work. They may not en\ven want to know how to
repair an air cooled engine though. You could almost have a Subaru engine
installed for about a $1000 more.

"Heather Sponsel" > wrote in message
om...
> Hi,
> I am a student who just moved up in Dallas and I just found out that
> my dad in San Antonio was driving my lovely orange high-roofed camper
> bus around and didn't notice the oil leak had gotten worse and blew up
> the engine. He had it towed to a mechanic who said he would charge
> $2900 to replace the engine. Unfortunately I don't have anywhere near
> that much money. I don't really know much about doing any serious
> mechanical work on my car, but I am hoping that there must be some way
> to get the engine replaced for cheaper than that. I'm not really in a
> rush to have it done and I just really don't want to have to get rid
> of my bus (his name is Arlo). So, if any one has any information
> about a good type 4 engine and knows a good place (or person) to
> install an engine an engine in San Antonio (or I could get it towed up
> to Austin), please help me out! Please! I really don't want to have
> to say goodbye to my bus!

Last time I was on Samba there were several used type 4s on.Maybe you can
get lucky.And don't be too hard on dad.He spent much more to raise you(and
not just money).
"J Blair" > wrote in message
om...
> I feel for ya. If you don't know about it already then check out the
> website aircoolers.org. Aircoolers is a gang of friendly folks who
> love VWs, beer, talking about VWs, and beer. There are chapters all
> over the place including San Antone, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, etc.
> Post something on the message boards and one of these helping friendly
> folks will point you in the right direction. They have helped me and
> Phred ('71 Type II) with a number of tricky problems.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Jeffrey
>
>
>
> (Heather Sponsel) wrote in message
. com>...
> > Hi,
> > I am a student who just moved up in Dallas and I just found out that
> > my dad in San Antonio was driving my lovely orange high-roofed camper
> > bus around and didn't notice the oil leak had gotten worse and blew up
> > the engine. He had it towed to a mechanic who said he would charge
> > $2900 to replace the engine. Unfortunately I don't have anywhere near
> > that much money. I don't really know much about doing any serious
> > mechanical work on my car, but I am hoping that there must be some way
> > to get the engine replaced for cheaper than that. I'm not really in a
> > rush to have it done and I just really don't want to have to get rid
> > of my bus (his name is Arlo). So, if any one has any information
> > about a good type 4 engine and knows a good place (or person) to
> > install an engine an engine in San Antonio (or I could get it towed up
> > to Austin), please help me out! Please! I really don't want to have
> > to say goodbye to my bus!

Heather Sponsel wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am a student who just moved up in Dallas and I just found out that
> my dad in San Antonio was driving my lovely orange high-roofed camper
> bus around and didn't notice the oil leak had gotten worse and blew up
> the engine. He had it towed to a mechanic who said he would charge
> $2900 to replace the engine.

<SNIP>

One last possibility:
The '73 will run quite nicely with a 1600cc Beetle engine.
The tranny is geared the same as '71 when that was the
only engine available.

There is *some* "rigging" required, but if cost is the
determinant this could be a way to salvage the situation.

Speedy Jim
http://www.nls.net/mp/volks/