Re: [T3] looking for specs

["Tim Johnson" <skinny@cablerocket.com>]

how much for the manual and to ship it to
tim Johnson
79Imperial st
Delhi Ont
Canada
n4B1G8
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>
To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [T3] looking for specs


> On 17 Sep 2005 at 22:36, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> > i've been looking for the older version of the bently
>
> This is the manual that you need for your '73:
>
> Volkswagen Official Service Manual
> Type 3 Fastback and Squareback 1968-1973
> published by Robert Bentley, Cambridge, Mass, 1974
> ISBN 0-8376-0057-X / LPV 997 383 / VSQU
> (excellent book, complete and well written)
>
> Early printings have the wiring diagrams in color. This book is still in
print,
> but with B&W wiring diagrams, for about $40. Used copies can occasionally
be
> found at swap meets, and I have one available here if you're interested.
>
> > also what is so special about the type 3 beam
> > if it just the brakes I got a disc beam from a ghia here
>
> Your '73 already has larger disk brake calipers than any Ghia.
>
> The type 3 front axle beam includes an anti-sway bar, something which was
only
> added as an afterthought to the type 1 beams.
>
> You could certainly convert to a type 1 beam, and no matter what you did,
> someone has probably done it before you, but there would be little reason
to do
> this since the type 3 beam is a better design in every way.
>
> -- 
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> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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