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<x-charset iso-8859-1>> They are just to keep the cylinders from filling up with gas while sitting. I > didn't realize that they were used so little, but the microfilm says for dual > carb engines up to 1100000, which is the end of 65. I believe there were dual > carb engines in 64 though, also. > I think they started to use the idle cut-off to stop dieselling and filling cylinders with neat fuel, which made the valve unnecessary. We had the idle cut-offs fitted to our '64 in about '66 after having fuel dribble into a cylinder and preventing the engine turning over for starting. Luckily dad didn't try 'bump' starting or it might have wrecked the rods. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>