The 1966 VW Beetle Forum

Sorry! :oops: I just pulled every plug, plug wire, the points, coil, distro, ...you get the point... and started over; one piece at a time testing on a second engine in my garage until I found the culprit. Nothing was wrong w/any of the parts!!!! Everything worked on the new motor w/o fail. I then t...

The distro is on quite right...and if it it wasn't, I am fairly certain I should still get spark from the coil to the distro cap - but I am not! This is giving me all kinds of fits 'cause it doesn't make any sense!!! :x As to your question about the spark testing...I use a known good plug in the wir...

Forgot to mention that the timing is as spot on as I can figure out. TDC and the #1 piston is all the way up. The rotor is pointing dead at the #1 plug wire in the dizzy....

OK - I am not a novice at rebuilding/redoing/upgrading automobiles of all shapes and sizes, but I have come across a problem that has totally stumped me as well as a few of my car repair friends. The situation is as follows: 1966 Beetle w/1972 1600 Dual Port. Converted to 12v from 6v. Was running fo...

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Good morning! I had my 1600dp motor worked on by a friend of mine last week and have it back now :lol: I am trying to stab it back in place on my '66 but seem he seems to have "lost" the nuts for the lower mounting bolts!! I have tried every spare nut in my possession but can't find one th...

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Welcome!!! I missed this one too, strange.

Ah, well...Greetings from me!

The rebuild is not bad at all...provided you can take you tine and do it right. It took me a Friday evening to properly pull all the wiring and such - labeling as I went of course 8) - and then drop the motor. 8:00 am Saturday hit the ground running. Took about 6 hours to do a strip the carcass..er,...

Just went through a similar thing with my 1600 dual port...bearing went south after a ring popped in the case. :cry: I had ring and bearing parts strewn all throughout the case - not good. It just got to hot here in the Houston heat and the pistons didn't coll off quick enough(what my VW mech-head t...

Mine has holes predrilled for belts under the back seat. I will try and get a pic or two this afternoon and post them here. I have little ones also and the belts that came in the car were frayed and nasty(after setting in a barn full of rats and the like anything would be frayed and nasty I methinks...

Check out lulu.com and do a search for VW Beetles. They have a goodly selection of items dealing with vee-dubs in all shapes and sizes.

Good luck in the hunt.

Just pulled the seat on mine...17mm did it for me!