I recently purchased a 74 SB. The last time I owned an aircooled VW was 25 years ago and it was a 1967. I live in the central valley of California and it is quite warm now and rarely gets below freezing even in the dead of winter. The car is driven daily to and from work but the one way distance is quite short, about 10 miles.
I just put a new SVDA distributor in. The carburetor is a Mexican
34PICT-3. There are two vacuum ports, one at the rear and the other on the left side. Additionally, there is a port on the vertical portion of the intake manifold.I've been reading a number of posts on the SVDA 34PICT-3 combo and trying to determine how to connect the vacuum hoses. Right now, the hose on the left hand side carburetor port is attached to the port on the distributor. The rear carb. port hose is connected to the intake manifold and there are no hoses attached to the air cleaner although I think it is original and does have two connections.
When 1st started, the car runs rough and will not idle until thoroughly warmed up. It stumbles a bit when starting up but then accelerates well.
I'm assuming that the hose from the intake manifold to the rear of the carb. is incorrect. Can I just remove the hose and block the intake manifold and rear carb ports? If I want to properly use the air cleaner, can somebody describe how the vacuum hoses should be routed.
Thanks for any assistance.