Where in VA Rick?Maybe join us in the PA run on the 14th? See events

Welcome, Rick. Nice looking car.

Is this the car?

Good question Eddy — I happened to have the engine cover off of the car to replace the rusted engine cover hinge with a stainless steel one from MG Magic.  So I had plenty of clearance  on this FiberFab II car to get the fan shroud off.  As it was, it took some experimentation to find out what had to be removed from the shroud to get the sh…[Read more]

Were you able to RE and Re the shroud with the engine in the car? I had to remove the engine cover to do mine but even with it off it was a tight squeeze  getting the shroud on over the oil cooler. 

Yes! very nice job!  You might want to cover up that big hole in the back where the throttle tube goes through also if you’re into fixing air leaks on it. It has always seemed silly to me to make such a fuss about the “Hoover bit” and never address that big leak.  

NICE JOB.

Well, today I had some help from Roy(al) and we made and installed a “Hoover Bit on my doghouse oil cooler.  We used the dimensions from the drawing available at the following website:     http://www.type2.com/rvanness/sealfram.htm

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Never know. I got a ’66 motor (1300) in a ’69 pan. But the motor got fresh jugs to embiggen it to 1500 before it got put in the car. Here is a web site that will tell you what your engine (originally) was & what year the case was manufactured. Possibly helpful when ordering up those internal parts but, really, with these things you mostly gotta…[Read more]

I just found out that 82 was the year this was originally titled. It is a 67 frame & motor. So I guess that would be a 1500??

Thanks! Allen that makes good sense. being plugged is probably the best then. 

Makes sense to me. I searched for ’66 heater boxes and found a pic like the one Eddy linked.

If I’m right, those are for the rear window defogger that was not electric. Earlier beetles had a smaller paper hose that ran from each heater box to a “Y” pipe that ducted warm air to the rear window. newkitman2013-09-05 15:03:44

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You can see them in this picture  http://www.shoptalkforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=120111 PMOSSBERG2013-09-05 15:02:43

My heater boxes have a about 1 inch nipple from the top near where the exhaust inlets are. A po has put a heater hose from one to the other effectively blocking them. 

Eddy,

I know where those hoses go, but there are two smaller ones coming from the top of the heater boxes. Oh, about 1 inch in diameter? 

Eddy,

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The outlets on the heater boxes connect to a fitting on the beetle chassis by mmeans of a flexible black tube. On the TD you need to runn a black flexible hose, similar to the hose on the fan sgroud through a hole in the TD body and under the seat bases. Check the assembly procedures in the download manuals section on the right. Look in the…[Read more]