[T3] First Steps Engine Reassembly

[William J]

 When early and late oil filler tubes are refered to . Does this mean the 
early oil fill tube with the draft tube then  you talk about later tubes 
without the without the nipple . Does later also refer to to 2 cap breather 
because they don't have that hose nipple either. Are the early and late 
without that hose nipple the same oil fill tube?

William



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From: "Soren Jacobsen" <snj at blef.org>
To: <type3 at vwtype3.org>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2018 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [T3] First Steps Engine Reassembly


>> On Jul 6, 2018, at 8:50 AM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
>>
>> One of my Beetle shop manuals shows a contraption that VW suggested to
>> help separate the mist from the blowby. It's quite complicated, 
>> consisting of a
>> formed plate, a tube, and a cap, all presumably brazed together. It 
>> installed
>> between the case and breater stand and stuck up into the breather. I'm
>> amazed that VW suggested that it be locally made, to prevent excess oil 
>> loss
>> due to oil mist loss. No shop would have the facilities to make something 
>> like
>> that one at a time.
>
> You're referring to this?  http://blef.org/vw/40hp_oil_deflector_tower.jpg
>
> I managed to find that for sale many years ago.  I ran it on my 1963 Bug 
> for a while, but eventually I put together a 1965-spec 40HP engine 
> (several nice improvements in the case and heads) for it and switched over 
> the louvered plate we're all familiar with.
>
> They wouldn't be easy to make locally, no, but at least you can use a cam 
> plug for the cap!  The whole notion of "tools for local manufacture" is 
> pretty insane, too.  I suspect very little of that actually happened, and 
> instead several companies (Matra and Zelenda, notably) just made the 
> specialty tools that nearly every shop used.
>
>> There are a number of things that appear to be wrong in the parts book. 
>> The
>> lovered plate is called out starting about Jan 1, 1969, but I'm sure my 
>> '68
>> came with it.
>
> My type 1 parts book says they were introduced in August 1967.  I could've 
> sworn they came before that, though.  Before I looked it up, I was going 
> to say: "I believe those started in 1965, at the same time that they 
> enlarged the hole in the case.  Early cases had smaller round holes 
> instead of the more familiar D shaped cutout."
>
>> The early teardrop breather box doesn't show up at all, but the
>> slit cap does. I guess that means the square box superceeded the
>> teardrop one so I can't confirm when the square box was introduced.
>
> Yeah, the later breather boxes will work just fine on an early engine. You 
> have to change the oil filler tube at the same time, though.  Early oil 
> filler tubes don't have the extra outlet for that rubber hose.
>
> Soren
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