Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 08:56:24 -0400
Reply-To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Help needed with AIR-COOLED parts identification
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At 10:41 PM 5/10/2010, David Beierl wrote:
>#1 -- if that's a rear wheel it's going in to, it's a handbrake cable.
I should have said, the handbrake cable sheath. The actual cable
runs within it.
>#3 -- Hmmm -- oil pressure sender? I'm confused a bit by the A/C(?)
>stuff in there. Is this an air-cooled?
If that wire is blue with a black stripe, then it should be the oil
pressure sender, which means that your oil light will not illuminate
when you turn on the ignition. What color is it exactly? Where does
it go after it passes through the firewall? Again, if it doubles
back and goes inside the push-rod tube shield below the left-side
head/valve cover, it should be the oil pressure sender. Goes to a
one-terminal connector in the engine room, also blue/black.
>#4 -- Air conditioning hoses to compressor which is missing.
>#5 -- I believe that should go to the vapor-recovery vacuum switch
>on right side forward, and/or the distributor.
The '91 edition of Bentley doesn't have a vacuum line diagram for the
air-cooled. I'll send you a picture of the early Digijet layout
which is probably very similar. However the flying-saucer-shaped
object in picture two is the deceleration valve, which as you can see
has a vacuum line. This valve doesn't exist in the water-cooled
engines. The vapor-recovery valve on the water-cooled engines is a
similar-shaped but much smaller plastic valve located in the
front-right corner of the engine room. It may be in a different
location in the air-cooleds.
>#6 -- This is either an air-cooled or diesel or something I don't
>recognize. But the hose looks like another A/C hose
I didn't look hard enough. An air-cooled guy can tell you right away
what it is, but it seems to be a low-pressure hose. It's going
through the firewall right next to the deceleration valve. It looks
like a coolant hose but it obviously can't be.
W/ref my earlier pmail, the main heater blower is a squirrel-cage fan
attached to the after end of the alternator. There might also be an
electric fan up front for ventilation.
>Yours,
>David
Yours again,
d
