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On today's agenda: Adjusted the valves, seemed largely without incident- about 40 degrees in my garage, all valves read around .005 except for #3, which was tighter than that (how tight, don't know, I don't have a feeler gauge smaller than .005), adjusted all to .006 (it had been a good 10 years since I've adjusted the valves on an aircooled VW). I did notice there was a little bit of varnished oil in the valvetrain- to be expected in an engine with 95k. It was darker on the left head, near the #3 cylinder. I'll be keeping an eye on this #3... The other thing is I changed the plugs and points. The points in there were gapped at much tigher than .016 (like, .012 or something), and I threw in a new set of points, gapped to .016. Would this affect cold starting? I swapped all 4 plugs and marked which came from where. All 4 plugs look about the same- electrodes are very dark brown, nearly black, and the metal at the end of the thread (the part that's in the cylinder) is shiny black, almost like a glaze.. No signs of wet oil on the electrodes. I'm not sure how long these plugs have been in there. I'm leaning towards pronouncing this vehicle as having been running a bit rich. Thoughts? So, I think this car is ready to be started. It's still going to be absurdly cold tomorrow here in Connecticut, so I'm going to lean towards doing this next weekend. I may leak test the fuel lines tomorrow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~