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Hello, Volks: I have a few varied questions regarding my '67 Squareback. 1) The distributor that came with it cannot be turned far enough counterclockwise (that's anticlockwise for some of you outside the USA) to get it into proper time. The vacuum unit on the exterior of the dizzy runs into the oil cooler shroud tin, leaving the car about 2.5 degrees retarded. My plan is to get a Bosch 009 ASAP, but I'm about as broke as an election year promise. I wondered if any of you whiz-kids here on the list could give me some tips on getting the one I already have in the car to work properly. Anybody who wants to help, I can gladly send photos (digicam rocks!)...you can private mail me at carmody@kcisp.net if you like, so we don't clutter up the other listees' inboxes. 2) I have the (I believe) 32-PICT Solex dual carb setup on my Square, and one of them appears to be missing the idle air screw, yet the car still runs. I am perplexed by this...if the screw is missing, then shouldn't the engine run very badly, if at all? Especially with dual carbs? Is it possible that the screw has broken off inside the carb body? Or is it a case of complete user error, with me being the idiot? (I have not ruled out this option, as it seems highly likely. My idiot quotient lately has been alarmingly high.) 3) The interior of my Square is pretty damned nice, considering I bought the car sight unseen on eBay for $255. The original door panels (two-tone) are still in place, though someone cut speaker holes in them; the headliner is awesome, seats are nice (well, the rails have the standard broken plastic slides, but there you go), even the dash has only a couple cracks, around the speaker grille. Hell, it even came with a working AM/FM cassette deck! I got the dome light and instrument panel lights working (finally), and have been tinkering with the short in one of the Hella driving lights. But I can't find ANYWHERE new window crank handles for inside. My original ones have most of the white plastic knobs broken off, and it's hard to roll the windows up and down. (Not as hard as it was before a little WD-40 treatment, though.) So, riddle me this, Volksfans: where can I get a pair? 4) I am also looking for a front license plate bracket. My square has two bolts in the center of the sheetmetal above the bumper and below the hood. I have seen pix of other similar cars with a plate bracket mounted about there. Any ideas? I got a keen '67 Kansas tag to sport on the front, but no way to slap it on there. (BTW: Kansas now retro-tags antiques! You can legally sport vintage tags, which the state re-commissions for your car! Pretty freakin' cool, if you ask me. And the Square will be officially antique in less than a year!) In other Squareback Rescue Adventure 2000 News: The film we shot on our mad dash to Wisconsin to retrieve the Square has been accidentally mixed in with a number of other rolls of undeveloped film. So it will probably be a while before I have those pix online at the SRA2000 site. Grrrr... I have driven Yoko (she's not a Beatle, but she's in the family) around my neighborhood numerous times, most recently over to my friend Jeff's house, where he has been turning his garage into a Tool Time fantasy workshop. Hot air, clean cement floor, welder, compressor, whoo! I'm getting goosebumps! The Square has a notable shimmy about 35 mph, and the brakes still don't work worth a damn. I think one of the front disc calipers is hanging. I already replaced the center brake line (now THAT'S a bitch!) and bled the system, but it needs a four-corner going-over. Also, anyone who needs vinyl stickers made, websites designed, any kind of graphic work or copywriting, drop me a line! I work cheap, and love to barter. Sorry for the length of this post, but I had a lot of pent-up questions and such. Thanks for being part of this fantastic support system! Vrrrroooooommmmm!!! Carmody Squareback Rescue Adventure 2000 http://www.kcisp.net/~carmody/sra2000.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe