Joseph Tu wrote:

> I drove a 66 beetle in high school and I did a lot of work on it too, not to
> sure if the engines are the same exactly. I think it is a 1600 or a 1500
> that it has, solex 34 pict carb? I dunno I used to know when I studied all
> that stuff.

The 66 is a 1500, the 71 is a 1600, but it is basically the same stuff.

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> There is no cannister filter, just a filter screen. Near the drain plug
> there is a round plate the holds this.

Actually around the drain plug, the plug sits in the middle of the cover.

> I don't know if it has hydraulic lifters that year, but if
> it doesn't you will need to adjust the valves every 30K I think.

The Beetle never got hydraulic valves (well maybe during the recent years,
together with Digifant injection and Catalytic converters), but 30k miles is too
long interval for the valves, IMHO. I usually do the valves at each 10k kms (6k
miles)

PerL
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