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Hi all! I've been reading this newsgroup/email thing for a week or two now, it's been quite interesting. I bought a 70 Squareback with an automatic transmission and weber carbs (and a cardboard box with misc. FI parts). I've owned a couple of bugs before, but this is my first Type 3. I am by no means a mechanic, and so far I've been getting by with luck and a little common sense. I have the Bentley manual, but it hasn't answered all my questions (they may be in there, but I can't find them), so I'd like to ask you all for help. On to the questions: There is a screw-in sensor on the rear driver's side of the ?transmission pan? (square and flat on the bottom, Bentley says there is a filter here and lots of stuff that can fall out if you take it apart). Does anyone know what this is? It has a single wire coming out of it, which I followed, to find it was connected to nothing. The PO's of this car have done some interesting things with the electrics which I'm trying to set right. I have the little chrome air filters, not the (I imagine) vastly superior oil bath type. There is a connector on the bottom of one for a hose, but not on the other. I think it should be connected to this thing on top of the engine, rear-center, which has a plastic cap that you can remove (and see oil residue) and a little pipe that blows hot air when the engine is running. It is currently not connected. However, since the air filters are not linked, I'm thinking it would be bad, balance-wise, to have it going to only one side. Am I correct in thinking this? Should I get a 2nd filter that has a hose connector and set up some kind of T-connection or just leave it alone? I took the car to emissions today and it failed the hydrocarbons part of the test at idle. The PO told me he had advanced the timing because it gave the car more "pep", so I bought a timing light and went to set it myself. Well, the timing light burned out after about a minute (the box was taped shut, so I think someone might have returned it before), so I need to get another one tomorrow. Bentley says to set it a 0 degrees BTDC, which is supposed to be the 2nd mark you hit going clockwise. I think I read somewhere on this forum that you should set it at 5 degrees BTDC. Is that correct, and if so, which mark would that be? Also, there is a mark that is much more pronounced than the others, should I set it to that? I'm going to get some new Bosch plugs and wires too, is there anything else I should do before retesting this thing? When I went to check the distributor points, I found that it has one of those electronic things instead, it's called compufire I think, if that makes a difference. I'm trying to get a tachometer and a synchrometer off of eBay (because money is an issue), but I may not have them by the time I have to retest (go go waiver!!). I have to pump the brake pedal to get the rear brakes to grab. I've bled the system a few times (both by myself and with my wife pumping the brakes while I did the open/close thing) with no real improvement. They do work okay after being pumped. The PO told me that he had just replaced the master cylinder. Any ideas before I take it to the mechanic? My car has been lowered. It needs new tires, and I'd like to get the 135's off the front and replace them with the stock 165's. I examined the front beam and I don't see any adjusters welded in, or any welding at all, so I imagine it was done "on the cheap". I've tried to find a website that shows how this is done so I can attempt to reverse it, but I've just found sites that mention a cheap method of lowering only to caution against it. I understand that people want to do things the right way, but since this has already been done, does anyone know of a site that shows this process step-by-step? I did find one site that mentioned you could cut part of the front beam, (I think the torsion bar), twist it with a pipe wrench and reweld it, but I see no evidence of this. I've got tons more questions, but I already feel bad enough asking for so much with nothing to contribute, so I'll stop here. If anyone needs help with their computer, has some song stuck in their head that they can't place, or wants to know about old video games I'd be glad to help. =) Also, I have a digital camera, so if anyone needs a photo to compare things (I've been doing this a bit with the '70 manual Squareback that a co-worker has) I'd be glad to shoot and host it. Keep in mind that my starter was wired to my backup lights, so I can't speak as to the correctness of anything... Thanks for reading this and for any advice you can offer, Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: <type3-d-request@vwtype3.org> To: <type3-d@vwtype3.org> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 4:43 PM Subject: type3-d Digest V2003 #209 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org