Male Speaker: This is the engine installed in the worlds most fuel efficient van that Jet-A diesel turbo. This is the modified cruiser motor mount that I made mount onto these fuel injector plate, a mountain plate is underneath the timing cover, that's mounted to the engine block. Therefore, that's the trickiest part of this engine job was making that thing you can still change the timing belt as about the timing belt does not rub on this unit. The front motor mount just underneath the radiator is just a combination of a Volkswagen motor mount on the front and the cruiser motor mount chopped and welded together.
The other most tricky part of this engine job is on the transmission. I've changed the transmission on the Volkswagen to it be a cruiser style transmission or General Motors where they have two shift cables. As you can see, the shift cables -- car over the exhaust. I had to make mounting plate here and I had to weld the long pin here to the shifting arm that was already part of the transmission. This linkage here was already part of the transmission too with the little extension added to it and appeared at point where this shifted rod. I made these support brackets where the shifter cables out of pieces of lawn mower blade because lawn mower blade is the right thickness in its spring steel. And I just happened to find a couple of lawn mower blades at the right size hole that the piece -- I just put the clip on.
I remounted the air cleaner box on this side of the vehicle instead of over there. On the back of the transmission of the Volkswagen is a mount, not really but it has got two extra holes in the housing and I put a steel plate on this housing, there is one bolt and the other bolt is there, this is just a useless bolt and I made a little bracket to weld it to the stock cruiser rear engine mounting bracket that's pretty much the same for V-SIXERS and four cylinders so that's the other point where the Volkswagen transmission I mean engine and transmission mounts.
Originally Volkswagen had a motor mount back here over beside the shifter mechanism. But on this application it just was too bothersome too make a special bracket that would mounted to the frame. The van has no modifications so I made this -- or this idea as a bolt-in for any cruiser product without any modifications to the vehicle. The front motor mount is removed. Here is the close-up of the front motor mount you can see where it welded one piece and the other piece and see other side nothing special.
Now I am going to show you how I have made the axles to this vehicle, then the outside end is the cruiser universal joint and the middle is a home-made coupler I made of a sleeve I pressed on and I welded, I balanced the shaft was in the vehicle rotating slowly by spraying it with paint and then tapping with the hammer while I was holding something near and scratching it to see where high sparks were, then I preheated it before I welded it so that it wouldn't distort when I start welding it and then I weld it with a 130 amp MIG welder.
The other end is just a standard Volkswagen end, to the transmission, when I take motors out of Volkswagen products I leave the axles in the vehicle unlike most other front load drive vehicles and just unbolt them with these bolts and leave them attached to the spindle hub so easier that way.
Now under the vehicle looking at the oil pan, this is the right side axle, since it was a large hollow axle, it was similar diameter to the cruiser axle which is on this end and the Volkswagen axle on this end. I had two machines a solid sleeve to go inside like a solid bar with a slight different step on each side.
Now follow the axle back toward mounts onto the transmission that's all stock. The only extra additive to transmission was the rear motor mount, exactly just a twist torque stabilizer mount so that the engine dint twist too much when you are acceleration just a little bracket I welded under the little piece of rubber with a metal cup around it that came of some other kind of vehicle and that's pretty much it above the axles is the cruiser power steering pump that I used, so little tensioner I put there on either wheel that's important to have it there because when the suspension goes up and down on the bumps, you didn't have that, the axle would hit the belt eventually snap the belt.
First, side wheel point of view, you can see the separated modified axle where it mounted and the above the transmission two bolts for the new motor mount goes or transmission mounted make it for a cruiser purpose.
Now it's very easy to see the unique place where I attach this modified cruiser motor mount in amongst the timing belt area to the injector pump plate. And see this plate that holds the cables that shifts the transmission one cable goes to there the other one there. Here is the close-up of how the motor mount goes around the belts. Okay, this is what the motor mount looks like it is removed from the front of the engine. Now the Volkswagen diesel is ready to install back in the old van with 427,000 kilometers.
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