Our '74 Microbus type II had a 2.0 liter FI engine. The one time I had trouble with it, I cleaned every electrical connector I could find in the engine compartment and never had another bit of engine trouble. I finally sold it after too many winter days commuting to work with next to no heat and about the same amount of defrost, also because my wife never could master the standard with the hills at stop lights.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 3:39 PM dan penoff.com via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > As I recall, which is a dangerous thing for times so long ago, FI didn’t > appear in VWs until the early 70s, and it started in the Super Beetle and > Type IV (fastback/squareback/411). > > -D > > > On Sep 15, 2021, at 3:16 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > A friend of mine in high school had a clapped-out Scirocco that he had > removed the FI from and installed a carburetor. I gather was a pretty > common home-mechanic approach to dealing with FI problems before engines > got so computerized that it was no longer possible. > > > > Neighbors growing up had a green, late '60s Type III. I assume it was > carbureted but don't know for sure. Pretty cool car, it had rust > perforation by the mid 1970s and they traded it for a Chevy Vega -- a > downgrade IMO. > > > > Allan > > > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021, at 3:03 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > >> I had a 71 Fastback that was the requisite VW orange. Great car after I > yanked the Bosch FI and installed dual carbs. In fairness, the PO had > boogered up the FI somehow and it was beyond my budget at the time to > resolve, so I went the way of dual carbs. > >> > >> -D > >> > >>> On Sep 15, 2021, at 2:50 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Rode in one of these in Mpls. back when they first were sold. Very > >>> sprightly yet also cheap and inconsequential car. > >>> > >>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 2:44 PM Bob Rentfro via Mercedes < > >>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> In 1973, I was 13. My friend’s father bought a 1968 Squareback even > though > >>>> he had never driven a manual transmission before (he didn’t even get > a DL > >>>> until he was 35). That summer I taught him, his wife and several other > >>>> people in the neighborhood how to drive a manual in that Squareback. > I love > >>>> them. > >>>> > >>>> AZBob > >>>> > >>>> Sent from my iPhone > >>>> > >>>>> On Sep 15, 2021, at 11:34 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < > >>>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/581135949912790/ > >>>>> Interestingly both Angie's and my mother had VW Type III fastbacks > when > >>>> we were born. In realizing that Angie has decided it'd be cool to > have a > >>>> Type III. I've always thought the wagons were cool.I've never seen > one that > >>>> wasn't wicked rusty though. I bet good ones go for big money. > >>>>> -Curt > >>>>> _______________________________________ > >>>>> http://www.okiebenz.com > >>>>> > >>>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >>>>> > >>>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >>>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________ > >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com > >>>> > >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >>>> > >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >>>> > >>>> > >>> _______________________________________ > >>> http://www.okiebenz.com > >>> > >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >>> > >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > >> > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” Wernher Von Braun 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
