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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 ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/