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  • Some of this coments r so fucking stupid if you r going to talk shit and compare the bug to your pieces of shit be advice the VW BUG is being in every corner of the globe,but your pieces of shits only in a safe enviroment.and yes 2 bolts in your case and a shit load of crap with it.oh before i forget what the fuck do u do with your 1000lbs rated 5 inch long bolts for a 600lbs engine. let me guess a fucking thing.

  • so..my 600lb jeep engine is held by 2 bolts...but there like 5 inched long and rated for 1000lbs..yet, only 2 bolts..not uncommon dude

  • My 95 nissan 240sx engine only sits on 2 ''bolts''....

  • @nemchodesign was your Jeep built in 1967?

  • @MissWeatherballoon Not if you have the right bolts holding the engine in.Then again,WTF do i know about it.Only been working on them since age 7 and certified by VOA in Santa Monica at age 19.

  • @MissWeatherballoon Thank goodness for air ratchets, huh?  ;)

  • only 8 bolts to take apart a Bugatti Veyron LOL

  • Air ratchet and an extension and the engine is on the ground in under 15 minutes.. ;)

  • Pretty cool except they forgot to show all of the un-wiring that needs to take place before dropping the motor.

  • @WOZCINEMA What wiring its an old school beetle, theres the starter cable, the 12 positive for ignition and thats pretty much it.

  • @MissWeatherballoon - i got big hands and all bolts are fairly easy to get to. it has never taken me more than 10-15 mins from i begin wrenching until the engine sits on the garage floor. What the clutch cable got to do with anything i do not know ... (own bugs from 56 - 73)

  • @MissWeatherballoon VW made a special wrench for that bolt

  • I won a bet easy once. I said I could change my clutch at lunch hour. I did and then sat down to eat my sandwich with time left over.

  • @malkooth

    Awesome!

  • Just imagine now, how easy it is to steal that engine.

  • plus drive shaft, throttle linkage, clutch linkage, wires. yeah, 4 bolts

  • @Nothingyetful what drive shaft what clutch linkage u do know the engine is in the rear with the tranny infront of it right?/

  • @yemenyz the throttle and clutch are connected to the pedals, and the tranny is connected to the wheels via some sort of shafts. same with the gear shifter, its connected to the transmission by some sort of linkage. ive taken apart one of these bugs with a friend, and it took us longer than 20 seconds and 4 bolts to take the engine out

  • imagine how easy it would make your life if you forgot just one bolt

  • Great commercial.

  • Lisätääs tohon viel sähköt letkujen poistot ei kyl mee ihan noin :)

  • thought it was 3 bolts and a nut....

  • @Ironlakgrafff 4 the engine bolts to the transmission and thats it

  • most engine have 4-5bolts holding them in, like the engine mounts, it the rest of the shit liek drive shaft and wiring that take time

  • @MaddDogg81 soo much bullshit to disconnect and bolt off....

  • @MaddDogg81 VW's are pretty easy to swap engines with thats why they make good dune buggies and go karts.

  • Heh... If you leave the tranny in place, I count at least six bolts (4 bell housing, 2 motor mount). If you want to take the transmission out with the engine, you've got twelve bolts in the half shafts, and another one on the shift linkage for a total of ... I think fifteen. But yeah, I've done it in under 15 minutes without rushing. Took 3 hours just to access the intake manifold gaskets on my F-250.

  • Das klingt lustig, wenn ein Amerikaner "Volkswagen" sagt. Klingt wie "wulkshuagn"

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  • not when its a 74

  • @skullbanger79 why???

  • @ruchoso a few more wires and a larger engine make for a tighter squeeze.

  • Garbage how about the gearbox bolts and other bits and pieces.

  • What's a radiator?

  • imagine this tehnology (4 bolts) on the engine of a buggati veyron=))

  • four bolts..... AND all the transmission bolts and radiator and heater parts and etc etc

  • @williamthomasmi10 Radiator. Right.

  • @jpmartineau I mean all the parts that connect from the engine to other parts of the car, IE upper and lower radiator hoses, the transmission, and whatnot.

  • @williamthomasmi10 These cars were air cooled.... no radiator

  • @SonOfRDGear Wow. I'm cool. haha. well anyways. Ahem.

  • @williamthomasmi10 A beetle DOES NOT I repeat DOES NOT have a radiator. Its what you call Air cooled. Only things you need to remove is 1. Fuel line 2. Throttle cable 3. Alternator/generator wires 4. the wires that connect to the coil and then all that holds it in is 4 bolts total. I've pulled the Engine out of my bug 7 times in the last month so don't argue with me. Damn I'd expect a little more intelligence from a mechanic hell I'm only 14

  • @ShaneHornsbyFacebook

    See @SonOfRDGear. he already replied thanks.

    And who said I was a mechanic? Chill out dude. Either way its not *just* four bolts to pull the damn engine.

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  • imagine that much bullshit!!

  • I gotta say it was just 4 bolts but it don't just dope like that lol but it very easy...gotta love a bug!

  • now doing anything to a vw is a pain in the ass

    

  • @futureseabee4usn yup, and to top it off the new ones are not even fun to drive or to be seen in...

  • @futureseabee4usn

    Doing anything to any new car anymore is a pain in the ass!

  • and it would fall right out in a crash as well

  • @Xytos your wrong

  • I had 52 of them. I used to take out the engine (usually only 3 screws since people do not usually put the one behind the shroud on) and throw it on a shopping cart and take them upstairs to my apartment. I was only 15 at the time. My Mom did not know where I was getting the cars. People would give them to me. I wish I could find one now. I even had a 56 with the areal split window

  • old cars are light well some are,take a ford mk1 escort rs2000 3 people picked it up and walked off with it so funny

  • ungly betty...

  • After servicing these cars for years, I've found, that VW considers these cars in the same class as Porche, Mercedes Benze, Astons and such, the price on upkeep more than exceeds what you save in gas. Ask any mechanic what they think about VW's and almost all will say that they're not worth it. Once one thing breaks down, it's all downhill from there. 9 out of 10 owners try everything to get rid of the cars after they find out what the dealerships would not tell them.

  • after you disconnect the carb, gas hoses, every other hose, wires.

  • Best little car ever made, you could baha with the boys Saturday morning and take Betty Lou to Dairy Queen Saturday night cuz you didn't spend all your money on GAS!!!. The only one I never owned was a Thing. I let Joey Krause drive my 71 Ghia he lost control hit a pole, rolled it over a couple times and we walked away from it, 13,000 miles old. What a car.

  • @misturdan1952 Now i want one haha.

  • Those swing axles are hilarious.

  • how is that helpin advertising? i say the more the merrier

  • I took the engine out of my Baja in 12 minutes 45 seconds

  • A lot easier then changing the engine in a late model Camaro or worse yet a Japanese car and I done both.

  • Doesn´t mention that you practically have to take the bloody thing out whenever you need to maintain the starter motor

  • yeah true, but its a bitch to put back sometimes

  • its true!

  • Where is the spanner?

    It looks like he take out the bolts with his bare hands. :P

    Hoses, cables?

  • Hell, you cant even do your own oil changes with german cars anymore.

  • These 4 bolts hold the engine to the tranny, there are no engine mounts, no hoses (for the air cooled one's) and there are a couple of wires to disconnect and thats it

  • I swapped out a 1600 dual port from a squareback. easiest thing I've ever done. 2 motor mount bolts 4 tranny bolts and 4 wires from the alternator, fork lift the car up and slide the engine out. : )

  • Um, hell no, I've done this, we had to take off the body and lift the entire body off the car.

  • @cobrachoppergirl Why not do what I do? Just life the whole ass end of the car up with a hoist. WEll you are a woman and all

  • I guess you can just cut all the wires, hoses, cables, sheetmetal and heat exchanger tubes if they get in your way.

  • my auto stick beetle wont shift from manual to autnatic any help

  • I've taken alot of engines out, sports cars, race cars, transport trucks, etc. This is acceptable engineering.

  • does anyone know what size are the 4 engine to transmission bolts? i need to replace mine i lost them..

  • easy to steal !!!

  • yeah it just happened to my 69 bug and WHEELS have been stolen too besides they are easy to steal

  • gas tanks under the hood

  • .......yes those for bolts is whats keeping the engine mounted, but thats not all you need to do to remove it. You need to disconnect all the wires from the engine...and remove all the lines...and disconnect the engine from the tranny...well the tranny I ain't to sure about, but you gotta disconnect the line that causes the tranny to shift so you can remove that with the engine. And I ain't to sure if the gas tank is under the engine,but if it is you need to take that out first as well.

  • @jp2691 The 4 bolts attach the engine to the transmission. You also have to disconnect the fuel line, the accelerator cable and a couple of wires and it's out. I watched a Porsche mechanic take the engine out of my 1962 Super 90. It had the same configuration as a VW beetle. 20 minutes after driving the car onto a life the 4 cylinder engine was in pieces on a work bench for a valve job. A lot more power than the beetle, of course, which by 1967 had grown to 53 hp.

  • @jp2691 Fail

  • 4 bolts? I guess that's along with gearbox. My little Fiat would be the same: 1 bolt in back, 2 holding the gearbox, 1 connecting the shifter linkage.

    But...then there's the speedo cable, gas, choke, fuel lines, air intake/output, plug wires from the coil, dynamo, starter leads and cable (cable-actuated pinion) and grounding strap. I imagine the Beetle is similar.

    And if you actually wanted to be practical about it, you'd remove the rear cross member - 4 more bolts, not counting the tow hitch.

  • Does anyone know how much horse power is in the engine? And whats the top speed?

  • 45 hp 160 k/m top speed I have one XD

  • @Rocker2590 Thank god . i thought it was like 90 kmh enough , thanks a lot for your answer , does it matter if the cars a bit heavier? Like with 4 ppl and some bags , will the top speed lower? And how fast from 0 - 60 plz and thanks

  • yeah weight matters a lot its mm when you ride a bike and then put on you 3 bags you cant go as fast as before because of the weight

    more weight = slower

    less weight= faster

    I hope u can undersatand me lol is because Im from mexico but I love bugs

  • @Rocker2590 Yea i understand , congrats on learning english I didn't notice u were from Mexico , thats great you speak to languages , thanks for the info.

  • @Rocker2590 My Fiat is 24 hp and the top speed rather depends on the terrain, the wind and how much you've had to eat.

  • my Lawn tractor is 4 bolts to WOOOOOW

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  • Facing the rear of the car the top right bolt is tough to reach,you can do it but its tight to get in there.

  • Good to know, I'm about to help my brother pull the 1500 on his 68 for a rebuild (bent rod).

  • beetles are ace engine swap in 30 mins ;)

  • Alonzo Hawk once said even a six year old kid could steal this "one-cylinder hair dryer"... and then Herbie got mad at him. :)

  • Corvair looks like a turd on wheels to me i care more for character then speed in cars.

  • Try doing that to a vw today.. NOT!!

  • ya i was working on a bug in auto, and my auto teachers all, all you have to do is unbolt these four bolts for the engine to come out. lol

  • lol the pronounciation of volkswagen is funny

  • the world record for doing an engine swap on the vw bug is 1 min and 4 sec

  • @phatso786 True story...

  • @phatso786 did you just finish watching that video and then came here?

  • @phatso786 I pulled mine all by myself with a standard car jack in 10 minutes. 7 minutes of that was me looking for anything else I could have missed after the 7 minutes I realized it really is just 4 bolts.

  • The funny thing is that we're heading back towards this sort of simplicity with electric cars. You can probably carry a spare motor in the trunk if you really want to be paranoid; it'll p'rolly weigh about 40 pounds. There are no transmissions in the vast majority of electric vehicles.

  • They used to do 45 minutes engine exchange in Dermany service stations. You drive in, have a coffe and off you got with new engine. That simple. Now that was a car!

  • theres a garage i know of and they used to be able to have the engine out in 3minutes

  • lol, i had one on my sandrail (i also own a 1970 bug), When i was building them, i would just pick the motor up, and walk it over to the car, hold it in place while my friend put the bolts in. Nothing like working on an air cooled VW!

  • Imagine how easy it is to steal the engine! :D

  • LOL ur so F*$&#^NG funny

  • hahahahahah true!

  • @Robozgraggi lol

  • @Robozgraggi PEOPLE USED TO DO IT!!!! :o

    have heard many stories of people going into the supermarket and coming out again to find their beloved beetle up on jack stands with the swing arms tucked under and no engine!!

    although my autostick beetle is a little bit more complicated than the manual one to get out....which sucks! so unless you are an enthusiast, dont get an autostick beetle!

  • @Robozgraggi

    back then, this really happened!

    you came back to your beetle and already saw the rear end stucking up in the air because of the missing weight of the engine...

  • @Robozgraggi people used to!, you could go get your breaky in the bakery and come back to see your bug up on jack stands with no engine!

  • @Robozgraggi Imagine How Easy To Steal All Car >_>

  • @Robozgraggi then think how easy it is to push a very light car

  • @Robozgraggi

    imagine how easy it is to blow it up trying to rice it LOL

  • @Robozgraggi

    I stole an engine out of my buddy's VW to play a prank...

  • @Robozgraggi It's a bitch and a half to take those bolts out

  • @Robozgraggi Yeah, lift the whole car up. No one will notice.

  • Imagine how easy it is to break all 6.

  • Cuz that makes me feel safe....

  • i love doing the valve lash, dont even need tools to get the valve covers off!

  • My Corvair has self adjusting valves.  Never needs adjusting. Never had to remove the engine either.

  • but it doesn't have class like a vw :)

  • Come on over and look at my Corvair and then lets go for a drive. You'll be converted over. If I wanted a Bug I would have gotten Bug.

  • 8-)

  • thats how easy it is to take out a beetle's engine. imagine how easy it is to prank your friends!

  • i don't see how it's such a big ordeal about what you have to do to remove a motor from a bug, it's 2 bolts 2 nuts the throttle cable the wires to the coil alternator/generator and oil pressure switch heater hoses and the cables to the heater box along w/ the fuel line, and at times remove the breastplate cause it'll get caught on the engine compartment seal and you might have to loosen up the distributor and turn it if you don't have an .009 cause there's a chance of breaking the vacuum advnce

  • lol *steals engine

  • Don't laugh, people used to do that!

  • is a record i tink is 20 sec for the VW

    to take out and in the new engine

    is in the WOrfl Records

  • yes but they didnt include all the hoses, wires, and other engine peices that get in the way when your taking out an engine. the world record people consider engine in/ engine out as the stripped down engine itself going in and out. doesnt mean you can drive it after they put the new one in.

  • yes the world record

    the take out and in the engine and turn the car on

    moven 2 mts

  • WOW....

    ive heard but never seen...

    thats crazy...

  • Real craziness: at Volkswagen shows they have engine pull contests to see who can do it fastest. Someone figured out how to remove and replace one in two minutes...so now you have to drive the car in, pull the engine, drag it away from the car, put it back, reinstall and drive off, so the crowd will have something to watch. These engines are very easy to pull.

  • current record is 1 minute 4 seconds

  • he forgot the 15mm nut. so really its 4 bolts and a nut lol. i love my bug

  • it's a 14mm

  • Whats a 14mm? I cant seem to remember any 14's used to hold the engine in.

  • yes, your right lol. my bad

  • Schweinhund! It's held in with 17mm fasteners!

    It's not "four bolts" at all. The bottom of the engine is held with two nuts. The top is held with two bolts. The one on the passenger side is a bolt that screws into a captive fastener on the transaxle, so a bolt comes out from the engine side. The one on the driver side holds the starter, and a nut comes out the engine side. So...two bolts, three nuts, all 17mm.

  • wtf acc cable and fuel pipe

  • NOT that easy

  • Yes it is. I could remove my motor, replace the plugs, and replace it in less than 30 minutes. I started doing it after I put the plug ion cylinder #3 crooked and had to have the head helicoiled.

  • Take it from a scrapper, it's pie.

    Not that a VW engine is worth much on its own, but you can literally fuck around, destroy an engine, and replace it on the spot in five minutes with a jack and your bare fucking hands.

    Or you could do it the simpler way, ripping out the rear axle with the engine attached, lol.

  • woah

  • lol

  • The 1948 Tucker had this feature, too. Four bolts to undo the engine/transaxle and a patented wiring harness plug...it was meant to be a quick pit stop to replace the engine.

  • 4 bolts but you stil have fan shroud and wiring loom, fuel lines ect. But it is still defiantly the easiest car to work on!

  • vw technology

  • ive probaly done that 200 time already ,and im only 14

  • No shit, then prove it with a video longer than 2 minutes!!!LOL

  • huh?

  • Same with a Porsche 914. And they go 150mph!

    /I used to have one.

  • The Type II (or bus) is even easier. You dont need to jack up the car, just remove the bumper and rear apron and pull the engine out.

  • Actually, 2 bolts and 2 Nuts. 2 heater box cables, accelerator cable, fuel line, coil wire, back-up light and generator wire. Out in 20 mins. Going back in takes a little longer gotta make sure input shaft gets properly lined up and bam back together.

  • More like four nuts and two bolts: there are two nuts at the bottom of the engine, one nut on the transmission side of the starter and one bolt on the clutch-lever side of the transmission. The top of the starter is held in with a bolt that pushes through the starter, transmission and engine from the trans side, and there's a nut on the engine side of that bolt. You pull the starter because it's easier to line it up after the engine's in.

  • Yep, only 4 bolts, I have did it before aswell, just disconnect the accelerator cable, heater box hoses(2x), and gas line and your GOLDEN!

  • not only 4 bolts more like 8!!!!!!!!

  • good old immortal beetle.... isnt that the greatest car... survives through everything and fixing it takes minutes lol

  • Superior German engineering. It probably takes a day to pull an engine out of an American car and it's much less efficient.

  • Try pulling an engine out of any modern day German car and I think you'll change your mind.

  • Audi TT!

    Mechanic's Nightmare!

  • @HostageKiller damn straight, covers everywhere, its as if they dont want the engine bay to look like an engine bay!

  • @HostageKiller Yeah 1 Bolt Down... Hundred More To Go *After Removing All Bolt* FUCKING WIRE ! *Cut Worng Wire* *Cant Be Used Anymore* FUCK !

  • VW rules!

  • it is that simple to take one out just a couple of cables and things

    my dad has said it was really easy to do

  • Dont know if I think thats a good approach for a commercial though..why would you wanna take the engine out,is it so unreliable that you have to expect a change?

  • nice now i see why people love customizing these cars they are easy to take apart and put back in Try doing that on a new car first the freaking wires will strangle you and then the 20 bolts will disappear

  • Have you tried taking the engine out of one? Its really not that easy.

  • It really is pretty simple to pull a beetle engine 3 or 4 wires to disconn