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Re: [T3] Distributor and breather box questions


On 26 Apr 2005 at 19:55, Brad Mularcik wrote:

> I have an old style breather that is missing some parts.  I will do the 
> following.
> 0.  Sand blast and paint my breather so that it looks nice.

I've always avoided sandblasting the breather boxes, just because they have a 
lot of internal nooks and crannies and I'm not sure that I could be 100% 
certain that I'd get all the sand out. Any sand that was left behind would have 
a fairly good chance of eventually finding its way into the engine.

OTOH, I HAVE occasionally spend a lot of time with a breather box, a parts 
washer, and a bent wire to try to get all the condensed crap out of there. 
You'd be amazed at the stuff that has collected in some of these in 30 years.

> 4.  Add the rubber plug that Jim mentioned in his post.  All I need to do is 
> find out more about what this is and where to get one.

It's more of a cap than a plug. It's probably in the view shown on the site 
Russ posted. It's surely available because the same part was also used on 
beetles of the same era.

Okay, I looked it up it's VW # 311 115 541.


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