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RE: [T3] What keeps the oil down?


On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 12:22, boinger wrote:
> it is definitely not at all like this.
> 
> Okay, here's the whole deal:
> 
> I have to open the engine hatch to check the oil, add oil, or anything
> like that.  And the dipstick is next to the filler, not the same
> device.  However, it IS different than my '69 Bug's setup.
> 
> Where that picture shows the oil cap/dipstick combo I have a bolted-in
> plate.  It has a few layers of paint on it, so I figured it was just
> 'like that' for my car and was changed at some point later.  I've seen
> the other (correct, I guess) oil dipstick out the back, but just assumed
> mine was in-between where the body/frame had the holes, but the engine
> wasn't yet altered.
> 
> Now it SOUNDS from that like my engine is 'wrong', but I have the 4-part
> heat-exchanger things like other T-3s, not the Type-1
> only-the-two-big-ones type heat exchangers and a type-3 muffler (I even
> put in a new Dutch muffler in the fall).
> 
> I'll take some pictures tonight.
> 
It does sound like someone has made a T-1 case work in a T-3. I have
seen this before. Not the best set-up, but if you are willing to live
with it, it is cheaper than replacing the engine case, with a T-3 case.

-- 
Russ Wolfe
'66 FB MT
'71 FB AT 
'65 Bug (not running)
russw@classicvw.org
http://www.classicvw.org



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