Bought a Bosch GT40 ignition coil 'bout a year back. Being heavily involved
with electronics I thought I,d check the thing out against a standard 12
volt coil to see what they altered.
Somewhat surprised I found the primary ( 12 volt side) and the secondary (

I'm bored so I thought I'd babble a little. It's still aircooled but
unfortunately only about the lesser of the siblings... ;)
This coming weekend, we'll be in Sebring with a couple of our customers.
 We'll be driving our white early 70's 911 2.4 liter in the race, and

The whole lower back end had to be replaced along with an engine
rebuild
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My  VW moon hubcaps are too loose on new chrome wheels, not snapping onto
the rim nipple securely.
Any thoughts or suggestions to allow them to snap on securely would be
greatly appreciated.

I will be going on a small trip for me but a seemingly long trip for my VW.
It has a single port 1600, appearing to be all stock.  I have aftermarket
chrome half moons but the tires are just a little wider than stock.  I also
don't have a tach and other than me, I will have about ...

Rebuilt My CARB - Now the Choke Won’t Close - Help Please!
I tried to rebuild my 30/31 PICT BROSAL CARB
Now the choke won’t close like it is supposed to when the engine is
cold.

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While cleaning the tank on a 58 Beetle this was in it and looks like
it was in it for a long time.
Does anyone know what it is. there is no aftermarket gauge on the

Everyone knows not leave anything that might  get sucked into the fan
there. Right?

I recently ordered a set of  15 X 5.5 inch stock steel wheels from
cip1.
VWC-135-601-025-P - STOCK STEEL WHEEL 15 X 5-1/2 4-BOLT ( 4-3/4 INCH
BACK SPACING) - BEETLE 68-79 - GHIA 67-74 - TYPE-3 - READ SPECIAL

I bought a 2004 Touareg and it was shod with Falken tires - very
noisy, the noise sounded like rear end noise, so I took it to the
dealer and he said it was the tires! So I got some Michelin Latitude
Tour for a cool grand (ouch!) but they work great. No noise and good

Back in December I had opened a dialogue about some rather strange
brake issues I was having, and yesterday I did a bit more work which
didn't really seem to help.
Before I did anything, I replaced the stop plate behind the pedals

O.T. ?
that Porsche in the movie . was it really a Replicar?
and did they really wreck it twice ? or did they base the car used on a
wreck they had found in the junk yard?

the truck just quit on the road.
turned out to be a new one on me. the points pivot point must have lacked
lube as the points wouldn't spring closed. Pulled the dip stick put a
drop on the post and voila .. On the road again.

..
Speedy Jim (and others)
=== Voltage Regulator ===
1)  On a 1972 Super Beetle (I don't think it matters which