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On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 19:34, Jim Adney wrote: > On 20 Aug 2003 at 21:10, Jim Adney wrote: > > I was ready to defer to Russ on this, because I really just never had much > experience with any single port type 3 engines, but I paused long enough to > actually look these up in the microfilm. Turns out we were both wrong; there > are actually 4 different versions of this cover plate: > > early single port, up to about engine #60,000 > late single port > dual port carb > dual port FI > > I suspect that only the bottom three will interchange on the same late cooling > tin. > > I'll assume that Russ is right about the type 1s and that there were no such > plates on those engines. > Hmmmm, My '66 T-3 does not have the seperate piece of tin over the spark plug holes. It is one solid upper cylinder cover tin. When I tore my engine down, there were signs and definate indications that the engine was a virgin, and had never been apart before. I had forgotten about the different tin on the early single carb engines. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org