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Re: [T3] It's Alive!


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/
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----- 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
> *******************************
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