Well I guess we all have different thoughts on this. The 66 I drove was
bored out to a 1600. I personally would not want to check the vavles every
6K miles, that's every two oil changes and for me it was a time consuming
task, especially since I had worked at home. I do believe that the late
model bugs, the superbeetle, did receive hydralic lifters and even fuel
injection. I guess it all depends on what kind of driving the bug will be
doing, city, hiway?

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Russ Ottey
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 9:47 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Bug tune up - No vanagon
>
>
> Actually the '66 was a 1300 and had the emblem on the deck lid.  I had
> one once that I bought with a siezed engine.  It had sucked an exhaust
> valve (good ole #3 cylinder) that was imbedded in the piston which I
> discovered as I rebuilt it.  Drove it cross country right after the
> rebuild ( Santa Clara, CA to Cape Cod, MA)and each day before I set out
> I'd adjust the valves as they were settling in.  You can do it in about
> 20 minutes once you get the hang of it.  Someone mentioned earlier to
> adjust them every 30K, you really should go for every 6K.  It's easy and
> critical just like changing the oil regularly.
> Russ
>
> Per Lindgren wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
> > 87 Syncro 112i
> > 68+73 aircoolers
>