Best Volkswagen Tractor Ever Made. But It's Broken. 

They probably put the plow on the weigh the front down.

👍 a competent craftsman too.

Whoever made this was " The Man "

Any other pearls of wisdom?

@@GratefulEd907 I am guessing it was probably always meant to be just a plow and maybe some light towing. It's basically an overpowered lawn tractor, but pretty ingenious.

"Engines? don't care. Just THROW THE BALL"

YES

how could he ignore that puppy???😢

Guilty of watching the dog.

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Yeah but would have been a better design to have made the engine come out a little easier lol

@@staind288 sometimes it's impossible to get every design element perfected. If removal of the engine is a little difficult but the tradeoff is the machine is highly serviceable and well built then that's acceptable in my book.

No kidding wow 😊

@@staind288 well they probably assumed that they wouldn't need to ever rebuild the engine. I'm sure if it was used regularly since then it would have still worked. It was just sitting for a long time

Ya really, I was admiring how they did things. Very well done!

46 year retired body/frame repairman here. From "rust belt" Michigan here, I hate rust repairs!

i found a snow blower at the curb, I watched a video Darren made on a similar model. I had mine running like a song. I cleaned the sidewalks on both sides of my street feeling good about fixing my old MTD. Anyway I met my wife thanks to blowing her driveway! Since we have been married she helped my picked up a few snappers, and encouraged me to blow out their boxes, and carbs. Man she is a good woman!

I remember when Dad fixed up a Beetle for my sister's first car and the engine had some end play so he took the engine apart and shimmed it up, this from someone who had never worked on a VW before

I've rebuilt a few VeeDub engines and the end play is taken by the main bearing half shells side flanges. If end play is that bad, I'd be thinking a complete bearings, rings, gudgeons rebuild and throw in a valve job too. As the dad would say, while you've got it apart, do the lot and put a new throw out bearing in there too. I balanced and polished the ports on one of my rebuilds, there was lots of difference in weights of pistons and con-rods. It ran smooth like a Swiss watch after. I just figured out which part was the lightest then machined all the others to match using a simple beam balance. This was pre-digital scales days. I also put in an external oil filter. VW only have a near useless sieve, good for catching stray lumps but not the fine stuff that grinds the motor to death. I brazed two steel 3/4" elbows to the oil pump cover and plumbed a filter taken from a Valiant AP5, an beautiful Australian classic car but I bet you'd have an equivalent there. Well done guys.

Built to LAST!

All this time I thought he was Daryl's brother, Daryl. 🙂

I thought Brian was Mustie's son for years. 😂

Thought the same. Looks more like the machines find him 😂

the odd machines make them fun to work on for me

Built like a very small Panzer! But yeah a tank.

makes it fun to work on

My wallet would come out so fast, it would tear my pants!

He can't drive, 55

I second that; I am thinking it could’ve been built by a small company.

The minor mistake was to build the cabin part around the bell house and the transmission.

@@frank-t6857 It was built that a way so as whoever built it could spend more time not ignoring their Canine companion.

Yankee engineering .. using ( mostly ) German parts

Make America Great Again 😊

Always knew of that trick but only used it a few times, either when it was some super obscure car that you just couldn't find the right size seal or doing a buddy a favor when it's 2 AM on a Sunday and we didn't feel like waiting over a day for shops to open. Otherwise a new seal is so cheap there's basically no reason not to get a new one.

There are! I used to have air-cooled vw engine for water pump (for firefighters) and it used to have the system. Unfortunately, someone took it away before I got it.

It is definately the only one on the planet unless the guy who built it built another identical to it which is not likely. It seems to be better built than ones that are commercially built

@@todddenio3200 so true it's incredible that such a cool machine