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On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 21:31, Jim Adney wrote: > > My impression was that the ones he was talking about were all the old > original bellows style. > > Brazilian Bi-metal spring? Are you thinking of the current Mexican > ones which appear to have a spring there, or is there a third style > that I've never heard of? > > I've never actually seen any of the Mexican ones, but my impression > was that they used the traditional wax pellet concept, like those > used in water cooled cars. I have seen them with what looked like a 1 turn coil spring. These my be Brazilian, or they may be Mexican. You used to be able to buy them from the VW parts distributors. But I haven't seen them listed for a while. Maybe they are the wax pellet type. I think a lot of the parts retailers quit selling them because of the liablity issues. -- 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~