[T3] cylinder head breather ports on a 1972 Squareback

Mike Fisher fisherfarms at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 07:34:33 PDT 2013


We used all new correct cloth braided vacuum hoses on my engine that is
plumbed as a '72 now.


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Dennis Stiefel <dlstiefel at dekalbk12.org>wrote:

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>
>
> On 5 Aug 2013 at 9:01, Adriel Rowley wrote:
>
> > Then why does a set of type 3 G heads not have the ports?
>
> Either they do, or there is a service bulletin describing how they need to
> be added for '72-3 Type 3s. I've seen late replacement heads that have the
> boss there, where they can be drilled for the tubes to be pressed in to
> make
> the ports. RIMCO once told me they could install the tubes there if I
> wanted
> them.
>
> (The port consists of a short steel tube pressed into the head casting.
> That
> tube sticks out and the end of the rubber hose slides over it.)
>
> --
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> Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> *******************************
>
> _______________________________________________
> This is the way I went with on mine last year.  My VW mechanists got a pair
> of these heads new that Jim speaks of.  Then drilled the bosses out
> threaded
> the holes and put brass nipples in them so the hoses would have a place to
> connect. The heads after he had installed the nipples were around $450 for
> the pair which blew my engine budget sky high.  One the plus side they are
> brand new heads and each head has a threaded hole for the temp sensor.  May
> use the extra hole for a cylinder head temp gage sensor later.
>
> Dennis Stiefel
> Rainsville, AL
> 72 Fastback FI MT
>
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