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Ill crawl under tommoro! Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 5:38 PM Subject: [T3] '71 Type 3 idiosyncracies > While under my orange '71 this weekend I noticed that one of the elbows that > delivers fresh air into the heated air mixer boxes to either side of the tranny > nose was loose. It's supposed to have a screw there to keep it attached, but > the only thing holding this one on was the ~1" hose there. > > I've found this screw missing on at least 4 cars now, and I think I've sold at > least 2 elbows to people who had lost theirs when it just fell off, presumably > due to a missing screw. I think they have all been on the right side, and they > have all been '71s. > > It looks like there was an assembly line worker there for awhile who just > couldn't keep up, or didn't realize what he was supposed to do, or something > like that. > > I've seen 4 of these screws missing myself. This one was a May of '71 while one > of my earlier cars was a very late July '71. I had another early '71 which was > NOT missing the screw. > > How many of you out there have also come across this? Were any of these on > years other than '71? Were the missing screws all on the right side? > > For the rest of you with '71s, this is something you might want to check, > before you lose that elbow. > > -- > Jim Adney > jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, WI 53711-3054 > USA > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~ Shameless link for search engines: http://listarchive.type3.org ~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >