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--- Scott Taylor <scottbtaylor@earthlink.net> wrote: > Your car came down the line about 1000 cars after > mine in around March Cool!!! Scott is March '65 a confirmed , (Birth Certificate) date or just an estimate? And as Dave wrote, they may have actually been produced on the same day! After I wrote the e-mail, I read the post about the engine and chassis #'s being on Dave's site. I then did a little math, (assuming somewhat consistent daily/monthly production #'s), and came up with, late February to early March '65 for the chassis, and mid February for the motor. Thanks for the site Dave, (engine and chassis production dates, paint codes, part interchangeability, and a whole lot more)!!! One trashed case because the PO drove the car for (?) miles AFTER hearing a loud bang, (#3 Exhaust valve head snapping off?)! Yikes! The # 3 piston shattered into a 100 pieces, and flew into the case, but not before it cracked the cylinder, (it came off in 4 pieces!!), snapped the spark plug, and may have also damaged the upper inner head stud mount in the case! The #4 piston was seized to the cylinder, I still haven't gotten the cylinder off, the spark plug was bent. I gave up on the case when the upper inner #3 head stud broke off while I tried to remove it, (see above)!! And the #3-4 head, was trashed to say the least! The #3 exhaust valve shaft was stuck in the guide, and the valve head hammered itself between the head and the piston. A piece of the #3 piston must have been sucked into the #4 intake, otherwise how did the #4 spark plug get bent? The #'s 1, and 2 side seemed fine. But I don't want to even get into the bits of #3, and what they may have done to the inside of the case, cam lifter bores, etc... Not to mention the heat. The # 3-4 side was bad, and #1-2 was not too far behind, heat wise, (the mouse nest wasn't stuffed quite as tightly on the #1-2 side, but then the fried mouse I found may have needed the room to move around). I guess that Nubb got his revenge, but at a price. Cheers, John La Francois Blauvelt, NY '65 Notch S (Nubb) Awaiting RUSToration, oh and a new engine! '67 Beetle (Bubb) Currently under RUSToration by owner. '98 Jetta GL (Wolfgang) Wife's daily driver. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/