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Got it all back together and finished the 50 mile test drive.

Lights are acting wonky, so I will start sorting that out next.

So our fun project has decided to up the ante. We got the car wired well enough to try to start it. A few tries later (had to get the gas moving) and it started nicely. Engine ran for about 5 seconds and then seized. I suddenly felt like I had swallowed my 13mm deep well socket! So we do some search...

Got the engine out and mostly torn down today.
The bell housing has fresh scoring from the flywheel of the rebuilt 1641.
How different is the 1300s flywheel from the one I have?

Engine fired after a few tries.
Then it siezed up and would not turn.

Just got a nice bug a couple weeks back that had a partially installed wiring harness. Volt Reg was in a crate of extras. Engine in it is a newly rebuilt 1641 Brazillian without an attached VR. We attached the VR to the Gen and connected the red and blue wires. Is an additional grounding wire betwee...

Greetings All- Found a fair deal last weekend on a 66 bug that had a new engine recently installed. PO got frustrated when trying to replace the wiring harness. We've ordered the bugme videos #9 &10. In the meantime we have traced some of the wires, but have reached the fusebox (removed) so are ...