The 2bbl Weber progressive came standard on Ford Pintos. It was adapted for the VW and works great–once it’s set up right–and if you have a good manifold that gets it some heat from the heads so it doesn’t ice up. 

Welcome to you Dana. The shift rod bushing is not a fun job, but very manageable for a novice and a good introduction to the joys of the TD Replica. When you’re done you will be happy with your car’s shifting.

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I knew when I said unkind things about the prospect of going to a hydraulic clutch I was tempting fate. So now I buggered up the clutch.:x

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Wait–why not? If it’s the fuel circuit you want to hit, wouldn’t it make sense to run the stuff through the fuel lines? 

Annnnd . . . .

back home

My guy Mike’s out with shoulder surgery. Steve told me to try again next Monday: “He might man-up and come in.”

This just about guarantees there’ll be no Bridget at Carlisle. Ah well. Sooo close.

Thanks. PVC has many uses around the home & office. I left the bumpers off. I might put on the rear one though just as insurance. It’d be no good in a rear-end crash, but it does catch the spare tire if the clips holding it come loose.

Buttoned up for towing–maybe tomorrow a.m. she’ll head to the muffler shop. There I hope I’ll get

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Nice! Those temps sound better than should be expected. Hope it stays like that & look forward to seeing her in the flesh in a couple weeks.

I have not mounted it yet.

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Hell no.

Tunnel welded, fuel lines done.

So The sensor seller asked for pics of the part and a description, and when I sent that he sent me another sensor–this one with three wires. Appears the missing wire on the original one was a defect. The new one just came and tested good.

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I don’t know what Welcopma’s talking about.

May I suggest This one?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-ZPass

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ditto ditto  ditto

so-cal customs sells the wheel with a hub that bolts to the grant three-hole hub you probably have now. I had to drill out the top plate holes a little to make up for the aluminum thickness–though it’s probably possible to slide the lock and signal switch carrier down the shaft an eighth inch to accomplish the same result. 

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Smog laws can be a real pain for hobbyists and poor people alike (to say nothing of poor hobbyists!). I think that in many cases they have gone away because newer cars–and by that I mean anything made in the last 20 years or so–are so much cleaner than what preceded them that it’s just not cost effective to bother much with these tests. They…[Read more]

Went out and took the engine out again to see if I had fouled something up last time I put it on or time before that when I used the wrong throwout bearing thingie.

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So by now I’m thinking 

This is a ???sinking??? sensor. so the load= the wire on the harness and the wire from the sensor should complete its path to ground. Which means blue to ground and brown to the wire from the harness. But weird, because there’s no independent way to see the led light and tell me it’s actually doing it. Gonna get a 9v…[Read more]