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Re: [T3] looking for specs


On 17 Sep 2005 at 22:36, Tim Johnson wrote:

> i've been looking for the older version of the bently

This is the manual that you need for your '73:

Volkswagen Official Service Manual
Type 3 Fastback and Squareback 1968-1973
published by Robert Bentley, Cambridge, Mass, 1974
ISBN 0-8376-0057-X / LPV 997 383 / VSQU
(excellent book, complete and well written)

Early printings have the wiring diagrams in color. This book is still in print, 
but with B&W wiring diagrams, for about $40. Used copies can occasionally be 
found at swap meets, and I have one available here if you're interested.

> also what is so special about the type 3 beam
> if it just the brakes I got a disc beam from a ghia here

Your '73 already has larger disk brake calipers than any Ghia.

The type 3 front axle beam includes an anti-sway bar, something which was only 
added as an afterthought to the type 1 beams.

You could certainly convert to a type 1 beam, and no matter what you did, 
someone has probably done it before you, but there would be little reason to do 
this since the type 3 beam is a better design in every way.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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