Re: [T3] Strange OEM Type 3 Muffler

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 15 May 2001, at 20:20, Dave Hall wrote:

> But the '65 1500 Type 2 engines are included in the Type 3 engine number
> series.  It seems odd they didn't have their own engine number sequence.  As
> I said, what constitutes a Type 3 engine?  I wonder if the Type 1 dipstick
> tube is on these engines?  Anyone got a '65 1500 Bus who could check it out?

I seem to recall our talking about this a few months ago, but I don't 
remember the outcome--just that there seemed to be a larger 
number of engines produced than cars, by a large margin. Perhaps 
some of these blocks were made into upright engines for type 2s, I 
don't have a type 2 engine listing handy, but I DO have the 
microfilm and could look at it and see what they claim to have used 
for engines in 65.

I don't think it would be fair to say that type 2s got type 3 engines 
in 65, but it might be true that all the 1500 engines that year were 
made with engine numbers in the same series. If this were the 
case we might find that both type 2s and type 3s claimed the 
same engine numbers over some period. This would explain why 
both showed excess engine production for that year. Perhaps the 
sum of type 2 and type 3 vehicle production would come out about 
right for the entire run of those engines.  

Certainly confusing.

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