On the non-Beetle front, my daily driver, the 2013 Subaru Forester X Limited of Love™ needs some up drivetrain and steering work. My live-in personal ASE Certified (aka my son) helped me confirm some issues and I now have plan for the daily. The front passenger axle’s outer CV joint has definitely gone wonky but…
Category: Reference
Reference: Hot Rodding Type 1 Engines (1983)
Stumbled along some old VW hot rodding videos from 1983 that someone posted to YouTube. Pretty dated, which some of the products in the discussions no longer available or the companies themselves not around anymore. However, there’s some excellent build info and procedures here as everything done today with Type 1 engine building pretty much…
Reference: YouTuber VWDarrin
One of the most useful resources I’ve had the pleasure to watch are the videos from YouTuber VWDarrin. His many videos over the years, especially those that pertain to engine building, have helped me a great deal in learning alternative ways of doing things. While I am often a “book guy” when it comes to…
Reference: End play stuff!
I had a whole lot of end play measuring issues on the 2019 New Build and I do not want to repeat them so I’m going to go over a bunch of people’s different info on setting end play, and will likely attempt to determine the shim sizing with the crank during build assembly, much…
Reference: Various AJ Engine FI Support Items
I’m confident in my ability to do a relatively decent job cleaning up the aluminum on the engine, as well as aspects of the 2020 AJ engine rebuild, but there was some more generalized items I was hesitant to start given the fact the wiring harness is 41 years old, and the contacts have had…
Reference: Distributor Restoration
Since I’m investing so much in the engine/FI system restoration on Murbella, I would be amiss to neglect her distributor. There are still a few individuals out there who restore Bosch distributors and I’ve emailed two of them to see what their service fully entails. glenn-ring.com Restored / Rebuilt / For Sale VWNOS.com Distributor Restoration…
Reference: FI Engine – FI Cylinder Heads
Every day digging through my late model Beetle introduces me to something new and different from most prior years. The tear down of the FI Cylinder Heads for rebuild has introduced me to even more new things. The years 1975-1979 saw the US import models shift from the early 70’s carbureted system to the successor…
Reference: FI Engine – Plenum Gasket
So in my never-ending quest for VW Type 1 L-Jetronic parts and info, I was shocked to come across an out-of-stock gasket for the 75-79 plenum. This is one of the gaskets I figured I would have to custom cut and make a replacement for. But at least some time in the recent past at…
Reference: 205H Distributor Information
The 1975 to 1970 US VW Type 1 Beetle shipped with a Bosch 0231 176 044 DVDA Distributor with both advance and retard timing functions. Distributor: VW 043-905-205H, Bosch 0231 176 044 Replacement Parts: Points: 01 011 Condensor: 02 074 Rotor: 04 033 Dust Cover: 039-905-241, Bosch 1230 500 139 > 1230 500 147 Cap:…
Reference: FI Engine – Air Intake Diagram
UPDATE: I was sent to https://volkswagen.7zap.com/ which uses the same data but is a far better site than the nemigaparts.com one mentioned below. So as I was scouring the internets for any data I could gather on VW’s implementation of the Bosch L-Jetronic FI system on the Beetles I stumbled across nemigaparts.com which seems…