VW air cooled line boring

[oldisbetter]

I had a VW air cooled case line bored this week at a cost of £100 plus vat and another £20 for chemical cleaning but it came back just as we sent it plus a covering of swarf, anyone think this is over priced or can recommend somewhere next time for us, we are in Wolverhampton West Midlands.

[welshpug]

hope you got a refund for the cleaning, I'd certainly be wary of using those guys again if thats the pride they take in their work

[Deleted]

Shocking 😳

[Phil H]

Send them the picture and ask them to point out which bit they cleaned?

I'm hoping you paid via credit card as I'd be asking for a chargeback on that.

[slater]

Sounds massivly cheap to me although it's obviously not been dipped so I guess they have not charged you for that? Still cheap cheap for a line bore (+hone presumably) i think.

Are you complaining about there being swarf on it? don't really get the point of the post. Things don't come back from the machine shop cleaned unless you specifically ask for it and pay for it so sounds like a miscommunication and they just didnt do the dipping and cleaning part.

[Dez]

There’s nothing to hone, the barrels are separate. You can recut the seats but that obviously hasn’t been done With the barrel studs still being in. .

You need a jig/plate to line bore vw cranks As the casings aren’t very stiff. The barrel studs nuts not being removed and there being no nuts on the Casing studs does not bode well for it having been done correctly. They’re also need to be clean and deburred before the halves can be torqued together.

[stealthstylz]

£100 is about right it's a pissball job to do. Leaving it in that state is daft though, even if people don't want stuff cleaning properly they still get 10 mins in the Bupi beforehand and then the swarf blown off after.

[slater]

So were talking boring out for bigger barrels rather than line boring the mains then?

[slater]

Jul 22, 2020 10:00:48 GMT slater said:

So were talking boring out for bigger barrels rather than line boring the mains then?

Infact clearly not as you can see in the photo it's the mains.

[oldisbetter]

The bit that bugged me was they said it would be chemically cleaned before it was line bored, the swarf i can deal with and they did not take off the cost of the chemical clean just gave the guy who picked it up some old line about the chemical cleaning was part of the line bore, If anyone knows of a good service locally to Wolverhampton west midlands please recommend it i am always lost for places near me that can do work.

[stealthstylz]

If it's still got grease and oil on then it hasn't been cleaned at all.

[Phil H]

Jul 22, 2020 20:12:53 GMT stealthstylz said:

If it's still got grease and oil on then it hasn't been cleaned at all.

From the picture it hasn’t even seen a can of carb cleaner, let along any other type of cleaning - pre or post machining.

As for an alternative source for the work, the only one I can think of in the Midlands (been a while since I’ve had engine work done) in Autosprint over in Coleshill.

[swampy76]

Head technique in Telford used to be really good I’ve had a few heads done by them

[oldisbetter]

Well the engine is all back together and after turning over on a drill and making sure the oil pressure was up we installed it and turned it over o the starter and as soon as the coil was connected it burst into life.