[T3] 72 Air cleaner to body

[Daniel K. Du Vall]

I am looking for it all from the air cleaner to the body. Not sure if you asking me or someone else sorry if not me.  I am a 72 FI

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From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org [mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Jim Adney
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [T3] 72 Air cleaner to body

On 18 Apr 2013 at 8:59, Soren Jacobsen wrote:

> On Apr 16, 2013, at 4:03 PM, "Jim Adney" <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 16 Apr 2013 at 14:37, Soren Jacobsen wrote:
> > 
> >> Another option is to get a set (or just one) of the stock quick 
> >> release clamps. They make air cleaner removal easy but still let 
> >> you keep a clamp on both sides. I haven't been able to figure out 
> >> when they were used originally, but they come up for sale every 
> >> once in a while. I've been very happy since getting mine.
> > 
> > All our cars originally came with one of the QR clamps on the AC end 
> > of the input bellows. The body end was always a screw tightened 
> > version.
> 
> Are you sure about that? I've heard it was a '66 and later thing, but 
> I couldn't find any good evidence of it. I've been entirely unable to 
> find evidence of that being the case for '65. All the pictures in my 
> official (not Bentley reprint) workshop manuals and all the pictures 
> in owners manuals show two screw clamps. The part number is 311 129 
> 699B, which suggests there was a time when only the earlier 
> (presumably screw style) was used. Otherwise they would've given them 
> unique component numbers, not just different letter modifiers. At some 
> point it seems they stopped caring about the screw style clamps as 
> replacement parts, since my 1971 parts book calls out for two of the 
> quick release clamps and doesn't have the screw style listed at all.

Well, I WAS sure, but now I'm not so sure....  ;-)

My direct experience is mostly with '68-73, the FI years. For those years I AM sure that there was 1 QR and 1 screw type. I'd never noticed that only the QR style was shown in the later parts lists. 
That was probably a cheaper part, because it consisted simply of a bent up strip of plated steel.

I'm pretty sure I can dig up a screw clamp and the oval steel tube, but the tubes themselves came in at least 2 lengths, and with and without the air control flap. I don't think I have any with the air control flap, which would have been a dual carb version.

Which parts are you looking for?


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