>>1243485Old school push rod big blocks are always easy to wrench on, so are old straight sixes.
They're absolutely gutless, but the raw simplicity of air cooled VWs are one of the things that made them popular with hippies, surfers and other nomads. There's an old fart that I used to raft guide with who spent the better part of the 80s dicking around Mexico and the Caribbean in a T2 bus and he could do a full valve adjustment in 11 minutes.