Date:         Sun, 07 Jul 1996 12:09:52 -0400
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         JonR <jonr@empire.net>
Subject:      Re: fun road trip for free parts

Mark Janello wrote:
> 
> Hi volks,
> 
> here's a mini trip report of yesterday's activity:  Thursday someone
> posted on the local "umich.forsale" newsgroup of some VW parts, free, about
> a 40-min drive from Ann Arbor.  Of course the prospect of buckets of
> rusty, oily, junk parts of no use got us all excited here so a caravan of
> three (my '62 bus with Malika the intrepid dog, Greg with his '71
> Squareback and Emily the intrepid daughter, and Dan (since his bug and
> notchback are "in resto") in somethingorotherwitharadiator set out on the
> quest.
> 
> First Greg and I had stopped off to check out a convertible super that a local
> woman had just got (drove down to Texas to get it and drove it back!), that
> was fun.
> 
> Then it was off to free-part-land (read:  son off to school and  dad says
> time to clean out the shed).  The deal was we had to take everything and
> that it
> was admittedly mostly junk.  This proved to be the case, as heavy wire baskets
> of rusty old pistons and rods were loaded into my bus, as well as an engine
> which had seized sometime in the 70's and had sat outside since then (it had
> a "B" on it but no serial number, a replacement case?).
> 
> I wish I could report that bins of barndoor bus parts were found, but no, mostly
> engine stuff that should have been thrown away a long time ago.  I did get some
> stuff I could use, like underneath engine tin in better shape than what
> is on my bus now, and Greg liked the Type III fuel-injection fuel pumps.  The
> convertible that we had stopped off to see needed heat-riser seals and a
> shifter, which it will now have, and Dan's bug gets an intake manifold.
> 
> Other potentially useful stuff was some beetle turn signals, knobs, and a
> steering box, and a whole box of new engine bearing sets, plus some things
> like another 34PICT 3 carb that I can take parts off of.
> 
> The only thing I'd never seen before was some aftermarket distributor, made
> by Scat, big enough for the condensor to fit inside.  Also, has anyone ever
> seen a Bosch "019" distributor or know what it's for?
> 
> OK I've rambled on enough, just wanted to share a fun little road trip.
> 
> Mark
> mjanello@umich.edu
> '62 Kombi
	The stock dist. in my '64 deluxe sedan has the condensor inside 
the cap, but it also has a very small diameter vaccuum advance module on 
the outside...

	anybody know if the Pertronix points replacement ignition will 
work in a 6V system...???

		Thinking 'bout doing this in my '64 bug...I really hate 
points... 

				JonR