Re: T3 parts book.

[jadney@vwtype3.org (Melissa & Jim)]

>From: Yevgheny Khanin <ykhanin@iil.intel.com>

>Those who think they are interested in buying the above catalog pls read:
>
>this catalog is a collection of illustrations (with exploded views showing
>how a certain "complex" part is assembled from the "simple" ones). It's
>great,
>but: without Jim Adney's "The VW Part Numbering System" article (posted
>Feb 10th 1997) or some other source you can only use it the way very
>lively described in Alan Presley's lecture on "T3 parts book" (also posted
>last week, if I'm not mistaken).
>
>Example from the real life. 
>I'm trying to find the screws which pull together two pieces of the
>popout window chrome on my '70 LHD Notch.    
>
>According to the subgroup No.45 description in the No.8 (body) group table
>of the catalog or Jim's simple table, I proceed to the 
>illustration No.81 where I can indeed see my little screws under No.31. 
>
>This knowledge alone doesn't help me much, does it?
>
>But we now have the magic TCS-MSS-### expression.
>
>T(ype)=3
>C(hassis)=1 (?, this is the hardest for me. Help me out, guys)
>S(ide)=1 (no handedness involved)
>M(ain group number)=8
>SS(ubgroup number)=45
>###=031

Sorry, but your book just appears to be a collection of the Parts Book 
illustrations.  There should be a column of data to the right of the 
illustrations (that's how it looks on the microfilm, someone else remind us 
how the REAL Parts Books did this!) that correlates the item numbers from 
the illustrations with real VW part numbers.

In your case, above, item 31 is: 

        N 010 905 1    SCREW, CSK. HD. AM 3.5X5
                        [followed by about 10 lines that tell which 
                        cars this was used on, model, chassis #, M #,
                        quantity per car]

N numbers are another can of worms.  I think N stands for Normen (= 
standard.)  So these are standard parts, nothing special, nuts, bolts, pins, 
rivets.  Things that VW didn't have to have specially made.

At the start of each main group there should be an index of the parts 
covered under each illustration.  This is where my "road map" came from.

If the book doesn't have these things it is still useful to help you figure 
out out to fix something, but it won't help you get parts UNLESS you just 
peruse the book at your leisure and then go to your friendly local VW dealer 
and let him work out the final step.

Jim
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