VW Cars: Gasoline and Diesel Engines - Service and Repair Manuals

How to Rebuild Your Volkswagen Air-Cooled Engine - All models from 1961 and up

Learn how to rebuild a Volkswagen air-cooled engine! This guide will teach the reader how to troubleshoot, remove, tear down, inspect, assemble, and install Bug, Bus, Karmann Ghia, Thing, Type-3, Type-4, and Porsche 914 engines. All models from 1961 and up are included.

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Author:	Tom Wilson
Details:	176 pages, 25.5 x 20 x 0.8 cm / 10 x 7.9 x 0.31 in, paperback
Illustrations:	numerous photos and drawings
Publisher:	HP Books (USA, 1987)
ISBN:	9780895862259

The VW Air-Cooled Engine - Repair and Maintenance Manual

A no-nonsense engine manual that any practical-minded person can understand, giving a highly illustrated step-by-step guide to dismantling and rebuilding a Type 1 engine.
Most of the operations described in the book can be applied to the Type 4 unit used in 1700, 1800 and 2-litre Transporter models as well.

Topics covered included:
- workshop essentials;
- keeping the engine healthy;
- removing and stripping down the engine;
- examination of the engine components;
- reassembling the engine and ancillaries
- and full specifications of the various Type 1 and Type 4 engines.

With over 300 colour images, this book will be an invaluable resource for anyone involved in the repair and maintenance of these iconic engines.

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Author:	Ken Cservenka
Details:	144 pages, 24.5 x 19 x 1.2 cm / 9.7 x 7.5 x 0.47 in, paperback
Illustrations:	300+ colour photos
Publisher:	The Crowood Press Ltd (GB, 2018)
ISBN:	9781785003752

How to Rebuild VW Air-Cooled Engines (1961-2003)

This book offers beautiful color photos with insightful step-by-step captions for expertly rebuilding Volkswagen air-cooled engines and provides in-depth, hands-on information for disassembly, inspection, machining, parts selection, preassembly, final assembly, installation, and tuning.
Not only are the procedures for rebuilding covered in depth but engine model types, identification codes, specifications, and details are also covered in a manner that allows the user to source a good later-model candidate for rebuilding and helps retrofit the modern engine designs into earlier chassis.

This resource focuses on the VW Type 1, 2, and 3 engines beginning in the year 1961, when a significant redesign improved the reliability, durability, and horsepower of the basic initial design. For more than 70 years, automotive enthusiasts and the public in general has embraced the VW air-cooled engine for its simplicity, its capacity to be modified, and its bulletproof reliability.
One of the most widely used and versatile internal combustion engines in the world, this engine has powered VW Beetles, Buses, Porsche 914s, off-road buggies and rails, formula race cars, and many other machines both on and off-road. From 1938 until 2003, more than 21 million Beetles equipped with an air-cooled rear-mounted engine were produced.

If you have any interest in reviving your old VW, or perhaps are researching the purchase of one, this handy guide will cover all the bases in bringing that old air-cooled powerplant back to life.

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Author:	Prescott Phillips
Details:	144 pages, 28 x 21.5 x 1.3 cm / 11 x 8.5 x 0.51 in, paperback
Illustrations:	584 colour photos
Publisher:	CarTech Inc (USA, 2019)
Series:	S-A Design Workbench (SA221)
ISBN:	9781613254332

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Water-cooled VW Performance Handbook (3rd edition)

Turn your VW into a high-performance machine. Chad Erickson explains everything from low-buck bolt-ons to CNC-machined mods. Learn how to choose, install, tune, and maintain performance equipment for Golfs, GTIs, Jettas, Passats, and more.

This book will help improve your VW's engine, transmission and clutch, ignition, carburetion/fuel injection, suspension and handling, brakes, body, and chassis. In its 3rd edition, Water-Cooled VW Performance Handbook is now updated to include new engines, body styles, and modifications for the 1986-2008 model years.

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Author:	Chad Erickson, Greg Raven
Details:	208 pages, 27 x 21 x 1.4 cm / 10.6 x 8.25 x 0.55 in, paperback
Illustrations:	30 b&w and 270 colour photos
Publisher:	Motorbooks International (USA, 2011)
ISBN:	9780760337660

Guide to Automatic Transmission Repair - Import Cars and Light Trucks (1980-1984) | Chilton Repair Manual

This Chilton Repair & Maintenance Guide describes theory, trouble-shooting, specifications, repair and overhaul of automatic transmissions and transaxles of American import models (passenger cars and vans) from the period 1980-1984.

Types:
- Audi-VW 089 and 090 transaxles
- Borg Warner 66
- Honda 3- and 4-speed transaxle
- Jatco L3N71B, L4N71B, E4N71B, 4N71B, JM600, RNFO1A, RL3FO1A, F3A transaxles
- Mercedes-Benz W4A-040, W4A-020
- Mitsubishi KM171 and KM172 transaxles
- Renault MB1 and MJ transaxles
- Subaru 4WD transaxle
- Toyota A40, A43D, A43DL, A43DE, AW55, A14OE transaxles
- Volvo AW70, AW71 (Overdrive)
- ZF ZF-4HP22.

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Details:	672 pages, 27 x 20.5 x 3 cm / 10.6 x 8.1 x 1.18 in, paperback
Illustrations:	numerous photos and drawings
Publisher:	Chilton Automotive Books (USA, 2001)
Series:	Chilton Auto Repair Manual (7891)
ISBN:	9780801978913

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Schrauberhandbuch VW-Boxer: Alle luftgekühlten Motoren - Käfer, Bulli & Co.

This do-it-yourself engine repair manual provides practical assistance in repairing and overhauling Type 1 engines.
Most of the work processes can also be transferred to the Type 4 engine of the 411 and 412 - which is installed in the Type 2 models with 1700 1800 and 2000 cc. The peculiarities of the other air-cooled boxers are also explained and illustrated.

Conclusion: a very clearly structured repair manual for beginners, advanced users and experts including an appendix with the technical data and technical terms as well as engine and chassis numbers.

Contents:
- Basics of workshop equipment
- Engine Type 1: How to keep the Beetle's heart healthy
- Remove the engine
- Remove the exhaust system and attachments on the Type 1 engine
- Disassemble the engine
- Check the engine components
- Pre-assemble the crankshaft ready for installation
- Overhaul the crankcase
- Remove the exhaust system and attachments on the Type 4 engines (1700 1800 2000 cc)
- Piston and cylinder assembly
- Overhaul and install cylinder heads
- Install attachments on the Type 1 engines
- Install attachments on the Type 4 engines (1700 1800 and 2000 cc).

German edition of the Crowood book "The VW Air-Cooled Engine - Repair and Maintenance".

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Author:	Ken Cservenka
Details:	144 pages, 27.5 x 21.5 cm / 10.8 x 8.5 in, hardback
Illustrations:	350 colour photos
Publisher:	Heel-Verlag GmbH (D, 2019)
ISBN:	9783958439009

High-Tech Motoren von Volkswagen - G-Lader, Direkteinspritzer, VR- und W-Motoren

The change from air-cooled boxer engines to water-cooled four-cylinder in-line engines in the early 1970s marked the beginning of a technology offensive for VW.
Michael Willmann and Eberhard Kittler, together with numerous contemporary witnesses, meticulously devote themselves to the next chapter of Volkswagen's success story. They describe the most important developments from 30 years of high-tech petrol engines: G-chargers, direct injection, VR and W engines from the Golf 1 GTI RV6 to the Bugatti Chiron 8.0 W16.

This book impresses with sensational images and a wealth of details and facts as well as previously unpublished background knowledge from the technicians and engine developers responsible at the time.
Editor Michael Willmann was a senior engine developer and was responsible for the G-charger from 1987. Co-editor Eberhard Kittler was head of the Volkswagen AutoMuseum Foundation until 2020.

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Author:	Eberhard Kittler, Michael Willmann
Details:	240 pages, 28.5 x 21.5 x 2 cm / 11.2 x 8.5 x 0.79 in, hardback
Illustrations:	300 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2021)
ISBN:	9783613044289