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Re: [T3] Engine Update


On 9 Apr 2002, at 8:47, Drake . wrote:

> >Do your timing marks look like:  |    |  |  | (68-71)
> >
> >or like:  |    |    |  |  (72-3)?
> >
> >The 265 vac advance is the 68-71 part.
> 
> I have the 68-71 timing marks...the more I think about this, the more I 
> wonder if I actually have an earlier engine, either because a PO swapped out 
> the entire engine or perhaps the car was made very early in the 72 
> production year?

You have at least PARTS which were from before 72. What's your engine 
number? It stamped into the top of the case, just to the right of the parting 
line, just forward of the breather stand.

> Where would I look for a pn or other markings, on the FI brain, to tell me 
> what year the brain is? Is the PN stamped on the outside of the brain 
> somewhere? I have had the brain out previously but didnt notice anything on 
> it.

The brain number is either stamped in the steel shell or on a sticker on the 
outside of the brain.

-
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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