

| Subject: | Re: fun road trip for free parts |
| From: | JonR |
| Date: | Sun, 07 Jul 1996 12:09:52 -0400 |
Mark Janello wrote: > > Hi volks, > > here's a mini trip report of yesterday's activity: Thursday someone > posted on the local "umich.forsale" newsgroup of some VW parts, free, about > a 40-min drive from Ann Arbor. Of course the prospect of buckets of > rusty, oily, junk parts of no use got us all excited here so a caravan of > three (my '62 bus with Malika the intrepid dog, Greg with his '71 > Squareback and Emily the intrepid daughter, and Dan (since his bug and > notchback are "in resto") in somethingorotherwitharadiator set out on the > quest. > > First Greg and I had stopped off to check out a convertible super that a local > woman had just got (drove down to Texas to get it and drove it back!), that > was fun. > > Then it was off to free-part-land (read: son off to school and dad says > time to clean out the shed). The deal was we had to take everything and > that it > was admittedly mostly junk. This proved to be the case, as heavy wire baskets > of rusty old pistons and rods were loaded into my bus, as well as an engine > which had seized sometime in the 70's and had sat outside since then (it had > a "B" on it but no serial number, a replacement case?). > > I wish I could report that bins of barndoor bus parts were found, but no, mostly > engine stuff that should have been thrown away a long time ago. I did get some > stuff I could use, like underneath engine tin in better shape than what > is on my bus now, and Greg liked the Type III fuel-injection fuel pumps. The > convertible that we had stopped off to see needed heat-riser seals and a > shifter, which it will now have, and Dan's bug gets an intake manifold. > > Other potentially useful stuff was some beetle turn signals, knobs, and a > steering box, and a whole box of new engine bearing sets, plus some things > like another 34PICT 3 carb that I can take parts off of. > > The only thing I'd never seen before was some aftermarket distributor, made > by Scat, big enough for the condensor to fit inside. Also, has anyone ever > seen a Bosch "019" distributor or know what it's for? > > OK I've rambled on enough, just wanted to share a fun little road trip. > > Mark > mjanello@umich.edu > '62 Kombi The stock dist. in my '64 deluxe sedan has the condensor inside the cap, but it also has a very small diameter vaccuum advance module on the outside... anybody know if the Pertronix points replacement ignition will work in a 6V system...??? Thinking 'bout doing this in my '64 bug...I really hate points... JonR
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