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<x-charset iso-8859-1>My apologies in advance for the long story, but feel the need to provide some background... Having just recently installed a new set of Weber 34icts on my 1600dp w/7K mi., I have been reluctant to drive it any distance until I got it running properly. It's definitely been running lean with the factory installed main and idle jets. Unfortunately, I had no choice to drive it to L.A. and back a few weekends ago, approximately 200 miles round trip. I tried to be easy on her but after 2 hours of driving in the heat and traffic, I pulled into my destination and there was a rather unhealthy noise coming from the engine. I'm not sure how to describe it but it was a scraping noise, to me sounding like a bearing noise. I was there for the weekend so I shut her down and gave no thought to it until I had to leave. When I fired her up, the noise as it sounded previously had disappeared. What I did notice was that the engine sounded a bit different, with kind of a faint knocking noise. But I drove her home without incident and brought it to my local VW mechanic during the following week where he could not identify any problem other than the need for larger jets. I've changed the oil and found nothing unusual and I've checked the plugs and they were light brown but looked pretty good to me. I am trying to determine how much, if any, damage may have been done. Other than the slightly altered sound of the engine, it seems to run fine, but I'm only driving it 20 or so miles at a time up to 60 miles a day. So, the bottom line is that I've been planning to go to Parma and am now concerned that my notch may not be up for the almost 2K mi. round trip. I'm really psyched for the trip but would hate to have to R&R my engine at who-knows-where along the way. Part of me says "damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead" while my conservative side says check it out carefully and perhaps consider forgoing the Invasion. Anyone? DaveB '64 notch ~ Esther Summerland, CA ~wisdom is the domain if the wis~ FZ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>