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On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 11:56, garram1@swbell.net wrote: > On 30 Sep 2005 at 9:12, Dave Hall wrote: > > > I've not heard of it being a frequent problem - John's episode in Wyoming is the > > only one I know of. Fuel feed spigot falling out of the carb is much more > > common, but I've not had that happen either. > > Now that I have had happen in my '68 Westie. The bus just stopped > running after going over a speed bump. I went back in the back to > fiddle with it. I pulled on the accellerator and heard that little > brass tube fall into the intake manifold. Ooops! I pulled the carb > and managed to shove my head, a flashlight and a pair of hemostats > into the engine compartment far enough to see down into the intake. > I got the tube out, reinstalled it in the carb and drove home. > > I've also heard of someone buying a nonrunning beetle and on teardown > they found that little tube in the muffler - smashed flat. > I have torn many a VW engine down and found the imprint of the accelorator nozzle in the top of a piston. And, the engines had had many miles put on them since it had happened. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~