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notchback
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| Your oil light will flicker or come on. When you oil light comes on, pull over immediately! The Idiot Book has some good stuff on it. Read it to get the feel and some principles of AC VW's, and get a Bentley to work on it and you should be pretty good. |
yeh pulling over is usually good thing to do, my fastback use to over heat like a bugger. also noticed that the car was very hesitant when it gets hot. then it cuts out, then wont start for 4 hours and sits tehre smoking like its on fire...then when it starts it`ll drive 12miles with no oil in it, 3 cylinders, one melted piston. and will finall give up after 12 miles....
althought according to everyone on here this doesnt work at all, but you can run an induction kit into the airbox. i drove to bugjam last year and it took 8 hours due to overheating. i bought some flexy heater pipe stuff. took 2 bolts out of the decklid(ones closet to the car) so that it hinges wierdly, stick the pipes into the airbox. and out the top of the decklid. now of course this apparantly doesnt work, even thow the fan sucked air through the pipes, because you could hear it and feel it, and of course because it didnt work, i was able to 95mph all the way back constant without any overheating, and it never overheated again either. even when i rerouted the pipes to under the car...but like i said it doesnt work thow according to most people on here  |
It's baaaaaaaaaccckkk.
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vwfye
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was this alternate tubing put in place of running the correct hoses or blocking off the outlets on the fan shroud? if so, i am curious as to why? it may work, but why try and out engineer the engineers at VW?
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Adoom
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 9:59 am Post subject: Re: Overheating problem... |
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I know this is an old thread...just saying "Thanks" for this old thread being here. Was driving home last night and there was suddenly a weird smell. No oil light (thankfully) but the car was definitely hot. It was well past midnight, but I still crawled under to look and sure enough that hose had broken off.
Will get some aluminum hose and clamps on there tonight!
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santosmotorsports
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Location: FL
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| Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:30 am Post subject: Re: Overheating problem... |
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my engine have 88mm slip-in pistons and cylinders have all the tins ,I installed the aluminum hoses to the heather boxes due this tread and still have the same issue leaving the highway the engine stalls.
Phenolic spacers from cylinder head to intake manifold , intake to carburetor installed concern still present.
removed the magnaspark ignition verified its tighten ,timing verified.
don't know was is causing the overheat
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rosevillain
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| Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:49 am Post subject: Re: Overheating problem... |
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Some nostalgia vibes in this old thread.
What carb do you have? |
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santosmotorsports
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| Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:13 am Post subject: Re: Overheating problem... |
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Some nostalgia vibes in this old thread.
What carb do you have? |
Dual 34 empis, i live in Miami Fl sea level
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