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[flatfourfan]

oi vey........jokers............

[lowlight]

No, its Sta-Soft!

Viagra will fix the problem

[flatfourfan]

cams are back..............they do good work, they are already on route to Armand.

[flatfourfan]

Finally some more updates.

A visit to Armand this weekend showed some nice goodies on the bench. The intake manifolds have now been mocked up on the dummy motor to check for clearance issues.



I also managed to get another Type 3 Clock from Armand to replace the one on mine that doens't work, apparent;y it's an easy fix which I'll look into this week.



Also managed to pick up a fuel sender from him as well from a Type3, will need some work, but this should take care of my half tank issues that I'm having with the T3 & T1 parts. Same as a bus one, just shorter.



Now I need injectors..............time to call on some GM guys for some help.

[Rabid_ant]

Let me know what you're looking for. we have a couple of sets floating round the family...i'll see who i can bribe

[flatfourfan]

Armand tells me that I'm to be looking for a set that came off the old senators.

[flatfourfan]

Got lucky yesterday with the float level, I took armands advice and soaked the sucker in vineger, let it soak for a day and slowly turned the nut at the end loose, this was lotally encrusted in rust, but it came off no problem. Wires are still intact and the slider works 100%

Cleaned it out and will reasemble tonight and fit if all goes well.



The clock however also seems to be an issue as it too doens't work. Time to do some reading up on the net regarding that one.

[beetlepower]

Found this on the net.... my clock also needs to be fixed

One day the clock in my squareback quit working. I'd been given a spare
when I bought the car, and obtained another from a car I parted out.
Neither of these worked, either. One of the spares had a metal cover on
the back, held on with two small slot head screws. The manufacture date on
the clock was 7/71. I took off the cover and found a small assortment of
plastic gears, a rotational oscillator (driven electromagnetically), and a
transitor, capacitor & 3 resistors. Not terribly complicated, but... let's
have a look at the other one. It had a plastic rear cover, but an earlier
date stamped on it. (It's installed in my car right now; my other example
of this type is dated 3/71.) The cover is held on by three nuts, one of
which is covered by what appears to be a plastic anti-tamper seal. (Pliers
took care of that...) Removing the cover revealed a bunch of neat-looking
metal gears... it was nothing more than a mechanical wind-up clock with an
electric winder! When it winds down every couple of minutes, a contact
closes (part of the winding down action) and a solenoid is energized. The
solenoid flies forward, instantly winding up the clock for the
next few minutes. You hear it go "clunk" periodically if you sit
in the car with the engine off. It turns out that there's a small internal
fuse built into the clock; mine had blown. (Somebody on r.a.vw pointed
this out to me. It was years ago, and I've forgotten who it was!) It
appeared as though the fuse was simply a very thin wire. I soldered a new
wire in its place, and it worked great! I should have lubricated it when I
had it apart, though. It runs slow here in the winter (average January
temperature is below freezing), just about right in spring and fall, and a
little fast in the summer if I don't pop it out and adjust the speed for
the season. I just think of it as a combination thermometer/chronometer.


-Greg

[flatfourfan]

Thanks bro, Armand mentioned this on saterday to me as well...........all I need now, is time.

[beetlepower]

But to get time you need to fix the clock...

[Blitzkrieg]

I'm fitting a speedometer where my clock would normally stay....I don't need a clock.....

[flatfourfan]

I don't have that luck, I need water temp gauges as well as boost gauges and I have no idea where those are going to go.

[Blitzkrieg]

I'm getting more and more confused as to what engine you are building

[vader]

Aircooled maybe....

[flatfourfan]

Won't be long