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Our normal T3 headlights are not sealed beam, and can be completely dismantled into reflector, rim, glass etc, and have a small bulb fitted in the reflector as a side/parking light. The hole is only the size of the bulb (like an instrument bulb but slightly bigger and rated 4W) and is held in place by a spring tang on the headlamp bulb holder. The Mark 1 Golfs have a sealed beam but with replaceable bulbs. They have a plastic bulb-holder which uses a hole maybe 3/4" across. The Beetle and Type 2 from '74 have replaceable bulb sealed beam but with the smaller side-light. In this context sealed beam just means the lens and reflector are sealed together; the back is open for the bulb and its holder to fit in. I expect it came over with the US forces - there were lots around the US air-bases - and there was a great guy who ran a secondhand VW parts business who was over here too and dismantled many of them - Jerry M. Regan (radar installations?), in case anyone comes across him as he's back in the 'States now. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 2:12 PM Subject: [T3] It's Alive! > I just spent the afternoon resurecting a beat up 71 square for a > friend's daughter. We had spend a long cold day last fall on the > same project but came home empty handed; today was different > and there were some interesting observations that came out of all > of this. > > First of all, last fall we had trouble getting the FI fuel pump to run. I > ended up taking the pump head apart and digging the jellied > gasoline out of it. Today the pump started and ran without any > problems, and after replacing a bunch of fuel lines and a lot of > cranking we got the engine to fire and finally to run. We thought > this meant we were home free. Later however we discovered that > once again it wouldn't start and there was no fuel delivery. > > In the end the cause was a kinked fuel line, from the tank to the > fuel filter, which kept fuel from getting to the pump. Replacing this > line, which had been cut too short, gave us a plentyful supply of > fuel at last. We also discovered that the last people to work on this > car had plumbed the fuel tank connections wrong, connecting the > fuel return line to the fuel tank outlet and vice versa. > > Another curious thing we found was in the headlights. > > This car was a US code LHD car which had been taken to England > and then returned to the US. Upon arrival in England it had been > converted with different headlights for driving on the left side of the > road. These sealed beam headlights were Tung-Sol brand, made in > the US, but labeled "drive left." > > Once they were removed, we found that they had an unusual > feature that I had never seen before. They appeared to be ordinary > sealed beams, but there was a ~1" circle below the filament > connections where there was no internal silvering and a small > plastic cup was glued there on the outside of the glass. A separate > small incandescent bulb snapped into this cup. This bulb appeared > to have been wired into the parking light circuit so that it weakly lit > up the interior of the sealed beam whenever the parking lights were > lit. > > Has anyone seen these before? Is this the standard UK headlight? > The sealed beams had to have been made this way. > > - > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ >