[T3] type3-vwtype3.org Digest, Vol 16, Issue 25

[Jürgen]

Hi everybody out there ,

have you heard about the annual type 3 - meeting 2012 of the Typ 3 - 
Liebhaber Germany in July 6th to 8th ?? It will be held in the south of 
Germany near the austrian border in Geretsried near Bad Tolz in Bavaria .
Does anybody need more information ? Ask me or see our side

http://www.generation-luftgekuehlt.de/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=6954

This side is in german , please ask if you need a translation .
Aircooled greetings from northern Germany
Jurgen




Am 17.01.2012 22:50, schrieb type3-vwtype3.org-request at lists.vwtype3.org:
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>     1. Re: Accelerator Cable Install (Brent Bottolfson)
>     2. '72 Type 3 Progress (Jim Adney)
>     3. Re: Invasion 2012 (John Jaranson)
>     4. Re: '72 Type 3 Progress (Dave Hall)
>     5. Re: '72 Type 3 Progress (Dennis Stiefel)
>     6. Re: Invasion 2012 (crash 69)
>     7. Re: Invasion 2012 (Brian Fye)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:01:57 -0800
> From: Brent Bottolfson<brent at bottolfson.net>
> To: type3-vwtype3.org at lists.vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] Accelerator Cable Install
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> Just an update on my accelerator cable sticking.
>
> I was having problems getting the springs on the carbs to pull the pedal
> back up.  With all the fiddling around I cut my cable too short.  So,
> today a put in a new cable that was lightly coated with grease and
> hooked it all up.  Still sticking.
>
> Now for the big reveal.
>
> The pin for the roller lever was dry.  A few drops of heavy oil, let it
> sit for awhile and then worked it in.  It works just fine now.
> Sometimes the little things like that are right in front of me, had I
> just taken a step back and thought about it...
>
> -Brent
>
> On 11/29/11 7:35 PM, Jim Adney wrote:
>> On 29 Nov 2011 at 22:14, Bobsnotch at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> Brent, are they smooth when at the engine end of the car? Normally
>>> something like this is caused by the carpet hanging up the throttle pedal, but I
>>> don't think you have the carpet in it yet. Check the cable housing ends like
>>> Jim  mentioned, as you might find something.
>> Ah yes, the old sticky carpet problem. Even though it's the most
>> common cause of a spontaneous problem (that arises suddenly on a car
>> that had been running correctly) I usually forget to mention this
>> one.
>>
>> If the carpet's there, check that it hasn't slipped down slightly and
>> is catching the little cam on the back of the throttle pedal. To fix
>> this, reposition the carpet AND file off the little burr on the edge
>> of that cam that actually does the catching.
>>
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> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:33:56 -0600
> From: "Jim Adney"<jadney at vwtype3.org>
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: [T3] '72 Type 3 Progress
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> I was going to send this to Dennis, but I thought it might be of more
> general interest. Dennis, our resident shop instructor, sent me 4
> parts from his '72 fasty that his students are bringing back to life.
> He sent the FI fuel pump. the distributor, the speedo, and the clock.
>
> The fuel pump parts are all ready for me to put back together, that
> was straightforward.
>
> The speedo was very rusty on the outside, but the odometer problem
> seemed straightforward. When I started to open it, it became clear
> that I wasn't the first one in there. The odometer input shaft was
> out of place, which was odd, but I had to remove it anyway. It all
> went back together nicely, but then I discovered that the speedo
> input shaft was VERY hard to turn. This turned out to be another
> common problem that took a few extra minutes to fix. Now everything
> seems to work nicely, although the odo numerals and the speedo
> pointer look like they've suffered and discolored, possibly from too
> much sun. Regardless, it's gonna work just fine.
>
> That brought me to the clock. This is a late clock, the kind with the
> little coil and the transistors. I've almost never managed to bring
> one of them back to life, and this didn't seem any different. I
> powered it up and it showed some signs of life, but really wouldn't
> run. Then I checked out one of Dave's suggestions: see if the coil
> windings showed continuity. There are 2 windings; it's a bifilar
> wound coil, so both should have the same resistance. One showed about
> 800 Ohms, but the other was open. Bummer.
>
> There's no way to get to the leads on these; I'd have to bust it
> apart to get to those leads, but the solder connections are on the
> side I can get to. So I tried warming up the solder. Wow, now I've
> got two 800 Ohm windings!
>
> Power it up again and the signs of life are a bit stronger. So I
> followed another of Dave's suggestions: Flush the works out with WD-
> 40. After that, and a bit of cleanup, it's been running for the last
> 2 hours!
>
> I don't care for the WD-40 as a permanent solution, so I think I'll
> let it go like this for another day, then flush it out with alcohol
> and lube the pivots with clock oil. Hopefully, that will be a more
> permanent solution.
>
> If this actually works, this may be the very first late style clock
> that I've managed to bring back to life.
>
> That just leaves the distributor. The very special '72 only
> distributor. That's a rusty mess and I don't know what I can do with
> it, but at least I managed to get it all apart, so there's some hope.
> The big unknown is the very expensive '72 only vacuum advance can.
> The vacuum retard on those is almost always broken.
>
> We'll see....
>
>
> the input shaft was very tight. That turned out