Re: [T3]Power and carbs

["Daryl Koch" <pbulman@nycap.rr.com>]

I find the Bentley to be better with completeness.  I also find the Haynes
pictures quite useful.  So I use both in conjunction with each other.

Daryl - 72SB
Original Message -----
From: "GUNLOCK, GARY G LT (CV63 DECK First LT)"
<gunlock@kitty-hawk.navy.mil>
To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:41 PM
Subject: RE: [T3]Power and carbs


> -SOunds like you need to pony up for a Bentley book.  The Haynes is OK
> the
> -Bentley is better.  It sounds like the left side is either not getting
> fuel
> -(air only) or perhaps the two plug wires are reversed.  You say it has
> -sparkk, perhaps not at the right time...
> -Steve Jackson
> -71 FB (in drydock)
>
>
> Thanks for the input, you guys. It's been raining for the last two days
> but the sun is out today and I'll go check it out when I return home. I
> do have a Bentley's, as well as an original Owner's Manual (I should
> have thought to look in it for the sequence) but it doesn't do me any
> good in this case since the PO converted the car to carbs and the
> Bentley only has reference to FI in my '68. I'm really curious about
> Jim's comment on checking the dizzy so I'll check that first and then
> check the goofy gauge that splits my fuel lines in case it isn't sending
> fuel to the left side.
>
> Gary
> '68 SB
>
>
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