RE: [T3] Getting started.

[Scott Walters <SWalters@BigImageGraphics.com>]

Did a lot change when they went from 6 volt to 12 volt?

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Fisher [mailto:fisherfarms@uwol.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:54 AM
To: type3@vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Getting started.


I don't think there is a 6 volt manual?  Any of these are better than 
nothing!  I think there's an early Bentley reprint for $100+?   
Ball,Bentley or Haynes? 
                                                     Scott Walters wrote:
> Mine is still 6 volt!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Fisher [mailto:fisherfarms@uwol.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:56 AM
> To: type3@vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] Getting started.
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> I also bought a used 68-73 Bentley from Jim Adney as these guys all love 
> Bentley!
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> Mike Fisher wrote:
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>> books4cars.com has a good selection of vw manuals.  I love my 65-70 T3 
>> Autopress by Kenneth Ball!  That is as close as you're gonna get for 
>> your 64? 
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>> Scott Walters wrote:
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>>> That make perfect sense!
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jim Adney [mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org]
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:03 AM
>>> To: type3@vwtype3.org
>>> Subject: RE: [T3] Getting started.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10 May 2007 at 8:41, Scott Walters wrote:
>>>
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>>>> I tried everything last night. I checked all the grounds and the 
>>>> fuses. I
>>>> have no idea what's going on! Is there a book on square backs that I 
>>>> can
>>>> pick up for wiring and stuff like that? If so does anyone have a 
>>>> lead on
>>>> where I can pick one up?
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>>>>         
>>> Do you have a voltmeter, or a test light? Either one will give you the
>>> ability to check different places for the presence or absence of 
>>> voltage. There is little that's special about the auto electrics of 
>>> an early type 3, the stumbling block for most people is just a lack 
>>> of understanding of
>>> fundamental electricity, but you can familiarize yourself with this 
>>> rather quickly if
>>> you give yourself a way to measure voltage.
>>>
>>> Think of voltage as equivalent to pressure (in a water pipe.) To get the
>>> water to flow from one place to another there has to be some 
>>> difference in
>>> pressure. if there's no pressure difference there's no flow. When the 
>>> water moves from
>>> a region of high pressure to low pressure it can do work, just as 
>>> electricity
>>> can do work when it moves from a region of higher voltage to ground (low
>>> voltage.)
>>>
>>> Also keep in mind that voltage is always a measurement taken between 2
>>> points, usually between ground and the point of interest. Thus the 
>>> voltmeter you buy
>>>
>>> will have 2 probes which you will use to measure the voltage difference
>>> between two points.
>>>
>>> Even a standard water pressure gauge is actually measuring a 
>>> difference in pressure. It's just that the measurement is with 
>>> respect to the pressure of
>>> the air surrounding it, so the electricity/water analogy is actually 
>>> better than
>>>
>>> most people suspect.
>>>
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