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On 12 May 2005 at 7:42, Jason Weigel wrote: > On these early motors that tab or return spring arm is a seperate piece all > together. Its held on by the nuts holding on the cooler to the base. In > Russes pic of a later version of the tin, this same arm is different and > welded to the tin itself. Just a clarification pointer. OOOoooohhhh, I get it now. I didn't notice that the spring notch was in a little bent piece of steel. I thought it was just part of the cooler adaptor. Sorry, I guess I'm just a little slower than usual today.... > As far as the shape changing. The eraly tin is smooth, you can see it still > in the same photo over the top of the T1 cooler. Look at this new photo of > Jacks early 63. It is exactly the same tin only it is stamped in for the > new( common today ) cooler shape. As you can see as well the return spring > arm is welded to the top of the tin like Russes pic. > > original early: http://classicvw.org/gallery/notchboy/engine_36 > > new: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=94574 I really can't see much of the shape of the tin on the samba photo, but the photo on Russ's site looks somewhat differently shaped there than what I seem to recall from memory. Thanks for the info. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~