[T3] Breather cap

[Daniel Nohejl]

Interesting ideas.

For whatever reason, we definitely have a spring under the cap and a large washer beneath the spring. 

We're working our way to Jim's and will be there this evening. We're inhibited by the fact that we stall as soon as we get off the highway for gas unless we are constantly on the pedal. Then, it takes forever to bump start in parking lots. We also have to crank up the idle speed to keep it running after bump starts. A simple stop for gas costs us 30 minutes in messing around.

We also have to keep speeds at around 65 in 4th and no higher than about 45 in 3rd or we get some not very fun misfiring.

I've reset the points and static timed it several times since yesterday. Next stop, I'll replace them.

We'd be a lot calmer and things would be a lot easier to diagnose if the damned starter worked, but it seems we may have multiple small issues stacking up on us.

On the plus side, no new oil leaks in the last 450 miles!!




> On Aug 23, 2017, at 15:16, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 23 Aug 2017 at 12:39, Phil Ostronic wrote:
>> 
>> On my old Squareback it used to pop off with the spring, but back then
>> you could get a good new part from the dealer. My current Fastback
>> locks the spring, and has never popped off. 
> 
> The spring only came starting in '70 or '71. Before that, there was a plastic 
> "sponge" that was supposed to coalese the oil mist and drip it back into the 
> crankcase, but those often filled with frost in cold weather and got tossed 
> out. I have one of those on the shelf, but haven't seen one on a car since the 
> early '70s, when someone at the dealership threw mine away.
> 
> I have SST springs which I've made to keep that washer from rattling 
> around. I probably have some NOS and used ones, too.
> 
>> The heat soak from long freeway trips will often get them to a higher
>> temp than normal, which can bring on an incipient failure. 
> 
> Sounds like a good theory.
> 
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