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Ted, Welcome to the list. Sorry to hear about your troubles. Maybe try to find a local VW dealer with a service department & someone there if familiar with Type IIIs or can recommend someone in the area that is. Tom '68 FB (Thumper) '70 Bug On Fri, 03 Jul 1998 13:05:16 PDT "Ted Wallbridge" <tedward85@hotmail.com> writes: >Hey there, > I just signed up so I'll give a bit of detail on who I am and my > >car. > My name is Ted Wallbridge, I was living out in Victoria BC for a > >couple of years and last summer I bought a beautiful VW Type 3 >Automatic, 1969. I got it for $800, in great condition, had never >left >BC until I drove it east. It's got all the original interior and >exterior, (original radio and all) the engine was re-built about 10 >years ago, and someone did a real number on the electrical system.. >still haven't figured out what wires go where. She was running fine >and >I drove almost all the way to Thunderbay ON about 3 months ago. Then > >the trouble began... I broke down in a town of about 50 people in >Northern Ontario, no one there had even seen a car like it before, >luckily the mechanic had a friend from England who had worked on cars >like these before so I left it with him... it's still there!! > The rivets holding the drive plate all broke and so the had to >order a new drive plate, not too bad, they got one out of Vancouver >for >$150 or so, so I thought I was going to be driving it again last week > >but called only to find out that now they couldn't keep it running, >something about a metering device that wasn't working so it was just >pumping fuel constantly, and now they can't find that part. > > So that's my story, I was hoping someone could tell me where I >could >get the part, and maybe some other helpful hints... I want my baby >back! > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]