[T3] Starting engine over hall

Jim Adney jadney at vwtype3.org
Sat Jan 14 06:09:15 PST 2012


On 14 Jan 2012 at 7:53, Dennis Stiefel wrote:

> Well at least for my 72 as Jim said extra ventilation port into the top of
> the rocker box and one head has a place for the temperature sensor.

The extra port was not a FI thing; even carbed cars had it in '72-3. 
The completely different crankcase ventilation system in '72-3 leads 
to LOTs of problems when people try to convert those engines to carbs 
but don't think about the ventilation.

Dennis is lucky that he still has his original '72-3 Type 3 heads.

The temp sensor boss was for FI only, but later FI beetles also had 
it. For some silly reason VW put that head on the right side for the 
FI beetles. That leads to the occasional mis-assembled Type 3 engine 
by people not that familiar with Type 3s.  

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