I stopped to help a guy today who's 70 bug had died on him. Heres the problem, fuel had been pumped into the oil, was backfiring badly, the engine wouldn't idle or after some time even turn over. He said it had been galloping on him so I checked timing which was right on. Then I checked compression and #3 tested at 75 the rest 110-120. We checked the float and pin on the carb and both were OK. It has a new brazilian fuel pump, rebuilt distributer, and rebuilt carb. So anyways I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it but I was hoping that someone could give me some other possibilities to look at. Thanks in advance for any help. 75 bug Dave 72 camperbus 65 21 window ragtop
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