Re: [T3] Removing stock muffler, #2 exhaust, lower nut

[Toby Erkson <air_cooled_nut@pobox.com>]

<x-flowed>Sorry, I don't have an extra one but I'll check at the DDB.

Yes, I'm 100% positive it was the wrong tin because I took it and put it 
in the right side and it fit!

Yeah, I'm hammering away at it as well.  It can be quite frustrating but 
at least things are getting sorted out and working better :-)  BTW, I 
just got everything except the muffler/upper exchangers back together 
and fired her up, just to make sure everything was connected properly 
and such.  WOW!  A mufflers make a HUGE difference...although...she did 
sound very sexy with the raw exhaust puffing out the ports 8-D  
Antonette had was cooking dinner in the house with the stereo on and she 
heard the Lightsider idling quite clearly.

   Toby Erkson  --  air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
   '72 VW Squareback Darksider, 5-speed, 2.0L, rag top
   '72 VW Squareback Lightsider, automatic, FI, sunroof, gas heater
   '95 VW Jetta ~ SCCA Solo II; '73 Porsche 914; '81 Honda Gold Wing
   http://www.icbm.org/
   Portland, Oregon

P.S. Mt. St. Helens just released a big ol' plume of steam it appears; 
it wasn't an eruption.  So you nor-easters can relax, no ashen rain for 
you guys this round ;-)

Jim Adney wrote:

> ...
>
> Would this by any chance mean that you've ended up with an extra horizontal pushrod? If so, would you care to pass it on to Daniel Baum? 
>  
>
> > There's no cooling tin from the fan housing to the cylinder head on the 
> > right side and I can't put my replacement in there until I remove the 
> > fan housing.  The LEFT side of the engine does have the cooling tin, 
> > however, it is the RIGHT side piece!  Yeah, I'm serious.  I unscrewed it 
> > from the upper tin and it dropped right to the ground.
> >    
>
> Are you sure it was swapped? I didn't think that was possible...?
>
> It's nice to see that you're having so much fun with your new baby.   ;-)
>
> It's odd, but the '72 that I bought had more problems than any other type 3 I 
> ever owned. It took me more than 2 years of hammering away at them to find and 
> fix all of them. I just kept at it, thinking that each thing I fixed would make 
> the last of the problems go away, but instead they just got a little better by 
> fits and starts. Eventually, however, it became completely reliable.
>
>  

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