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At 09:11 01/01/18 -0600, Jim Adney wrote: [...] >Pretty good advice, or consider doing it slowly yourself. You are >bound to make mistakes as a novice, but nobody cares as much >about your car as you do. > >The right books and the right advice will go a long way toward >getting the job done well. I second Jim's reccommendation. I rebuilt the engine that's in my squareback now; slowly collected parts and read books for the better part of two years, then started putting it together. (luckily I had another engine in the car at the time, even though it leaked oil from every place an engine could leak oil) Now I have about fifteen hundred miles on it, and it's very rewarding to hear it every time I fire it up. It runs quite nicely, and I took it to a shop to get the carbs adjusted (I lack a sync tool) and the compression test showed all four within a couple of pounds of each other, so I think I did all right. It really wasn't all that painstaking or difficult, and didn't require a whole lot of specialized tools or anything.. I had to borrow a torque wrench, but that was about it. I think my point is, if I can do it, you probably can too. And it was fun. --geoff '66 squareback, '70 beetle (by the way, I posted some pics of my square that Andre took:) http://www.geocities.com/sparky314159/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org