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On 25 Apr 2005 at 23:28, Brad Mularcik wrote: > I (the original poster) have a breather that is completely empty. There is > NOTHING inside that even closely resembles a washer, a spring, or a scrubby > thing. Perhaps this is part of the cause of my oily situation. All my > breather contains is air (and some oil). I also found nothing like a baffle > under the crank case stand. The baffle is important, but the other parts are much less so. The baffle should be between the breather stand and the case, this is rather hard to get to unless your engine is apart, but one is supplied in every rebuild gasket set. > As for the breather tubes that I have, one is a steel tube that goes > straight down about 1 foot. The other is a barbed hose fitting on the side > of the breather. What is the appropriate way to deal with this? Does your down tube have a small (~3/16") hole in the side of the tube, near the bottom? Barbed hose fitting? Does this look like something added later? The standard fitting would have been a smooth steel tube. On your oil filler tube, is there a stub on that pipe that points upwards toward the breather down tube? What year is your car? What is the number on your case? > Back on my distributor, I am buying dual Kadron carbs from a place called > AJ Simms at Low Budget.com. http://lowbugget.com/Kadron_carb_page.html > I hae just seen this evening that they offer to tap the carb for the vacuum > advance connection. They also sell an expensive distributor that they say > has the right advance curve. Any chance that my stock vac adv dist. works > well in this application. Perhaps the FI dist with the mech and vac adv > works? It's possible that they have worked to find a combo that works well together. It's more likely that this combo just "kinda-sorta" works and that you'd be better off with a good mech adv dist. If you use the FI dist, you should not connect the vac adv can to anything, as that will be counterproductive. It will give you advance when you don't want it, and take it away when you do. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~