so..... the latest on the bug
worked on it last Sunday, spent 6 hours between garage, manuals and the internet and still wouldn't run.
what I did was rebuild carb(again), reset points, made sure the fuel lines were clean, and redid the fuel pump, twice, oh and checked the bogi cords were all fine.
now when I say manuals, i have 2,one I bought way back in 1993,and the one I got from Volkspares recently, which is a Haynes manual, and nowhere in them does it say anything about the different fuel pumps.
well you get 2 types,1 for a beetle with a generator, and 1 for an alternator, now for the one with the generator, your petrol pump shaft is longer than the one for the alternator version,110 verses 100mm,and in checking the correct stroke it must read 13mm at its highest and 8mm at its lowest, so a travel of 5mm to make the pump work, this is where I got confused and internet helped as the shorter rod isn't 13mm at its highest, but roughly 5mm and 0mm at its lowest.
so petrol pump was working correctly, checked this by turning motor over by hand and steady spray of fuel out of the fuel line.
like I said 6 hours later and car was still spluttering and couldn't even drive 200m,so closed garage door and had a beer and a braai.
during the week, got hold of a friend (Fanatic) and asked if he knew somebody with knowledge on this cars, number was giving and expecting the answer to be ,bring car round and lets see($$$$)
was surprized when he said, simple to fix, told me over phone and if I don't come right to give him a shout, only thing he did say was get the expensive one and that's when I saw $$$ signs again, so the other day, off too volkspares, new points and new condenser, and surprise ,surprise, there is 2 types of condesors
,1 for round hole in distributer and 1 for square hole, now I didn't know which one I had, so took both, now remember I said expensive, well a total of R274.for 3 items.
so got home first thing I did, see which hole I had in the distributor, and it was the square one(the one for the round hole was fitted) and Volkspares did say they will refund me for the incorrect one, put it in and started car, battled a bit so advanced the distributor a bit and fiddled with fuel and air settings on the carb, let it idle for a good 20 minutes ,revving it to 3000 rpm every now and then, didn't miss or splutter once. Wanted to test drive it Saturday, but ended up at work for 14 hours, so Sunday took it for a test drive.
went too Monument park spar, then back to Woodlands mall and then home again, roughly 50km round trip, and ran well.so in the end, the condenser was the issue and all that cost was R92 and odd cents, the points I will keep as a spare and the other condenser will take back and swop out for a spare one
got plenty compliments where ever I parked it, and waves while on the road.
still needs to be fine tuned, then move onto the next part of getting it too my liking.
really enjoy driving this car
thanks for reading
Gordvisr said:
get an electric fuel pump, it works wonders on the bug, can also hide a toggle switch on it for anti theft.
agree,but we are trying to keep it as original as possible
