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>From: "ANDREW PAROCZY" <aparoczy@ezinet.com.au> >The dipstick pipe isn't connected to the breather. The hole in the washer >is to let the oil back into the crankcase . The plunger lifts ,if >necessary,at high rpm to allow more crankcase gases to escape ,and I have >never seen a blue sponge in the breather box >unless it was placed there by somebody. The breather box should have a >steel gauze in it for the oil gas to condense.Other than that everything is >correct! >'62 1500 Variant 129530 >'65 1500N Panel Van PV0075 >'73 1600TL Variant Your sig explains why you would misunderstand some of this. Your cars bracket the years, but miss the ones when the oil drained into the filler tube. The earliest cars 61-67 had a straight draft tube with the rubber valve at the bottom, 68-71 had the bottom of that tube drain back into the filler pipe, and 72-3 FI cars used a different arrangement that did away with the drain back to the filler pipe. My microfilm has several mistakes in this area, so I can't be sure how late carbed cars were done. My 68 FI came new with a blue sponge in that location. The parts list shows only one part number up to that point for all cars, but earlier cars might have come with something different which was superceeded by the blue sponge. I have always felt that one of the stainless steel or copper kitchen scrubbers would be a better replacement. What do other owners remember getting originally in their pre 68 cars? Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- Melissa Kepner Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org jadney@vwtype3.org Laura Kepner-Adney Madison, Wisconsin ---------------------------------------------------------------------