Re: [T3] Today's work

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 8 May 2005 at 12:49, Hal Sullivan wrote:

> OTOH, if you've got an engine with 8mm head studs, tins from a 10mm
> stud engine might not hold as well as they could.  Same goes for
> aftermarket cooltins.  And some people like to wire them even if they
> do snap in alright, just to be *sure* they stay put. 

If I understand correctly, the so-called "cool tin" was only used on type 3s 
from 71-3. I don't think it was ever used on type 1s or 2s, so it was never 
made to work with the 8mm studs. I suspect that they could be bent a bit and 
still be plenty tight, however.

Does anyone know if the late type 1 square deflectors, the ones that came with 
the 8mm studs, were somehow different from the early 10mm stud version? Once 
again, I could imagine that they were just bent slightly differently.

I've never wired either version in place, but I don't see that it could hurt 
anything, unless it kept you from getting them tight in there. If you left them 
loose, and just depended on the wire to hold them, I suspect you'd find them 
loose and wearing holes in the pushrod tubes in a couple of years.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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