new engine!

[nibot]

That's right, the Vanagon is alive again! Now it just needs to be driven with care to 'break in' the new (rebuilt) engine. The new engine is all silvery and clean and you can see where everything is.. (i.e., compare where the engine mates to the transmission near the top of the picture). The large and still grungy cylinder on the left is the air conditioning compressor. Top right is the air filter, leading to the throttle (hard to see, but you can make out the accelerator cable coming in, and the spring that it pulls against) and intake manifold. It's a flat, four-cylinder engine, so you can sort of see where there four black intake pipes lead to the cylinder heads. As far as mechanical contraptions go, internal combustion engines are pretty cool...

Corner-to-corner, Yuma to Eureka:

Comments

[roxymartini.livejournal.com]

i miss your van.
more than you will ever know.

[wanton-adonis.livejournal.com]

I see you took the weather with you.

[dedoleo.livejournal.com]

Good god man!

Once upon a time, when I looked under the hood of an automobile, I saw a mess--spaghetti.

Since then, I've had auto. class.

I'm still seeing spaghetti in that picture. I mean, sure I see the sparkplug wires coming off the distributor...in TWO SEPARATE DIRECTIONS!

[shamster.livejournal.com]

Great pictures. They make me miss california (no, not beauty pageant entree). I love cloudy desert days and fall/winter time.

[bom.livejournal.com]

I love how you have the classic desert picture, what with the nice fluffy clouds with light beaming through them, a palo verde, and lots of flat sandy stuff. And then you have the classic Humboldt picture, with a cloudy dark sky and lots of hippies. Well, no hippies in the picture, so whomever is in the passenger seat will have to play the part.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

ocotillo, that's an ocotillo! (And I'm not referring to the hippie.)