Some additional info re: the build process:

Good Job Dave…Now get out there and drive!

Glad it all worked out for you Dave.  🙂

Last update to changing out my starter Motor. As you may recall, I posted a concern of how to remove the starter bushing when installing a near starter. Well I am happy to report the advice from the Samba Forum on using a “Auto Stick Starter” was advice well given. I installed this new starter and I did not remove the old starter bushing, because…[Read more]

Forgot to mention; the red one now lives about an hour away from me!  What’re the odds?

THANKS for the link! According to the info, mine is an exchange engine of unknown origin. It makes it difficult when ordering parts, but again since so many parts are the same across the years, other than the electronic ignition, I’ve not had much trouble.

This is why I LOVE this place!!!

Welcome.

It’s what we live for!

Well not really. But always glad to help!!!

Found this on The Samba:

The full thread: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/engine_letters.php

An excerpt:

Exchange engines

These engines are normally marked with a VW recycle symbol and an X at the end.
Example:
Information from a 5/73 USA service bulletin issued 5/73:
Engines with the re-manufactured symbol, a letter, a number…[Read more]

Thanks Ed and Paul…..your help is much appreciated.

Too bad about you vehicle being lost to inflexable smog laws.  My hope is that some of these “non-compliant” but interesting cars can be saved by converting them to electric power.

OK, we might also have to include some oil smell and prerecorded zoom zoom.  We have the technology.

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Too bad about your vehicle being lost to inflexable smog laws.  My hope is that some of these “non-compliant” but interesting cars can be saved by converting them to electric power.

OK, we might also have to include some oil smell and prerecorded zoom zoom.  We have the technology.

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I live in Illinois, so visiting Blodget’s Bug Barn in person is out, but I Googled them and found their site. They seem very highly rated.Thanks for the info.

My LR has a Weber 2bbl carb, so no vacuum advance possible. I have to stick with the distributor system it came with. Also I have NO numbers stamped ANYWHERE on the engine, so it’s ANYONE’S…[Read more]

Just goes to show…They just don’t make em like they used to …Great pictures, Paul, you’re a great resource!

The T Series…in pictures:

Just my two cents…I was always having problems with my distributor and timing. Seemed like she would always jump time at the worst possible moment…And I wasn’t smart enough to know how to get my car running again…One year, I went through all four AAA Calls. I’d had enough…

I had my Bug Guy take out the old system and he installed the…[Read more]

Nice looking but after my bad experience with California Smog Laws and my 1929 Mercedes Gazelle (Titled as a 1999 Special Construction Vehicle) I’ll never buy a kit titled later than 1975 again…I had to junk the car after I couldn’t get her smogged again…Thank God I didn’t invest that much into her in the first place…