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Got it to fire up on starting fluid Saturday night. We tried several times with gas and the fuel pump, but determined that I purchased the wrong length fuel pump push-rod so we needed to find one of those.
My buddy 'knows a guy', crotchety old vw hoarder in town. We scheduled a visit to him for Sunday morning as we had a short list of items I'd misplaced or never had. Starter bolt and nut, throttle cable barrel nut (vw specific, not a generic one), 4-3/8" fuel pump push rod (I'd purchased a 4" rod) and shifter-tube lock-out plate? (I think that's what it's called).
We spent an hour at Don's place/junkyard, I guess there's a house in there somewhere, but it's mostly piles of vw parts and cars and pathways and plastic tubs/homemade sheds. We were quizzed and berated a bit, but he eventually found everything we needed and gave it to me for a whopping $5. Well worth the abuse. Like I said he's a crotchety old dude (probably in his seventies, we're the 'young guys' in our fifties), so we took our abuse and thanked him.
Got the right fuel road installed, still no fuel...bad fuel pump. It's really sad that a town of this size has no parts store that stocks a mechanical fuel pump for a vehicle as ubiquitous as an air-cooled vw. 'Back in the day', we had a store called Bow Wow, that would have had everything we needed on the shelf, including the berating parts-counter guy that new everything vw...alas I had to resort to Amazon-one-day delivery and am anxiously awaiting a cheap Chinese POS fuel pump to arrive sometime today.
Shift-plate installed. The auto car pan does not have a captive nut in the right spot for the manual shifter plate, so we jury rigged a floating captive M8x1.25 nut into place on the forward half of the plate using some weatherstrip adhesive. Worked out well. shifts through all the gears. Clutch probably needs adjusted, but I'm saving that for after I can get it to run with the fuel pump.
My buddy 'knows a guy', crotchety old vw hoarder in town. We scheduled a visit to him for Sunday morning as we had a short list of items I'd misplaced or never had. Starter bolt and nut, throttle cable barrel nut (vw specific, not a generic one), 4-3/8" fuel pump push rod (I'd purchased a 4" rod) and shifter-tube lock-out plate? (I think that's what it's called).
We spent an hour at Don's place/junkyard, I guess there's a house in there somewhere, but it's mostly piles of vw parts and cars and pathways and plastic tubs/homemade sheds. We were quizzed and berated a bit, but he eventually found everything we needed and gave it to me for a whopping $5. Well worth the abuse. Like I said he's a crotchety old dude (probably in his seventies, we're the 'young guys' in our fifties), so we took our abuse and thanked him.
Got the right fuel road installed, still no fuel...bad fuel pump. It's really sad that a town of this size has no parts store that stocks a mechanical fuel pump for a vehicle as ubiquitous as an air-cooled vw. 'Back in the day', we had a store called Bow Wow, that would have had everything we needed on the shelf, including the berating parts-counter guy that new everything vw...alas I had to resort to Amazon-one-day delivery and am anxiously awaiting a cheap Chinese POS fuel pump to arrive sometime today.
Shift-plate installed. The auto car pan does not have a captive nut in the right spot for the manual shifter plate, so we jury rigged a floating captive M8x1.25 nut into place on the forward half of the plate using some weatherstrip adhesive. Worked out well. shifts through all the gears. Clutch probably needs adjusted, but I'm saving that for after I can get it to run with the fuel pump.
