[T2] Weld repair of caes

[C. Dreike]

Remember,
Magnesium will burn impossibly hot once its ignited.

Chris

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while engineers seek to create what never was.
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he can think for a lifetime."
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Anderson" <wvukidsdoc at yahoo.com>
To: "Bob Perring" <perring at roadrunner.com>; <type2 at type2.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [T2] Weld repair of caes


Used to be a common repair Bob, many of the classic places would do 
it, and would even plate over the area for extra strength (I'm taking 
you mean front as in toward front of the car, which on most modern 
replacement cases is now a thick near solid area between what used to 
be the webbing there) and do the deep stud modification if an early 
case without. But it is frought with the usual problems of all T1 case 
repairs, being it is hard in a long term to get it to work, 
particularly with increased performance motors, as they will re-crack 
right beside the weld. And it takes a guy who has done a lot of VW Mg 
based cases to know how to do it right period.

Would I have it done todays world, only to save a case that mattered 
(numbers matching) and only built to stock. Otherwise I'd find a good 
uncracked case and have it plated. The local guy in WV back in the 
day, would have a shelf of cases so modified, with case savers, and 
bored, and we'd just go pick one off the shelf for $200 (1990s, $$) 
and he would give you all of a whopping $10 for a core that was 
cracked, and $40 for one that wasn't. That was when a new factory SA 
case was running about $400, so for an on the cheap built up to mild 
dimensions it was cost effective.

John


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 From: Bob Perring <perring at roadrunner.com>
To: Type 2 List <type2 at type2.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 4:22 AM
Subject: [T2] Weld repair of caes


1600 single port, magnesium compound case
Crack in front of number 3

Has anybody ever, or know of, a repair being made by weldments to this 
area that is generally accepted as being notoriously thin ?
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