carb issues

1) Vacuum advance/timing.

2) Weak spark or breakdown of HT leads/rotor/cap/plugs.

3) Lack of manifold heat.

4) Accelerator jet (even though it's a new carb).

Speedy Jim

=2E. =2E. John

1) Absolutely amazing comment. The great value of discussions with people who have been driving the same cars for 30 years.

2) Many would never have thought about the ball-bearing on the point plate of the distributor... causing the problem by wearing a 30-year-dent/depression into the point plate.

3) That would certainly prevent the vacuum canister from pulling and rotating the point-plate to give that extra timing advance required to overcome the acceleration bog, or hesitation, which is so irritating in the 050 non-vacuum distributers.

4) Excellent comment, and cure, John.

5) And yes, Speedy's recommenati> What model distributor are you using?. Like most cars VW,s need vacuum

Heh. Not commenting on the carb issue, but I grew up in Toronto, and drove bugs for many years. Most of the time when there was a big snow, I was the only one moving. Also the only one scraping my windshield from the inside, but moving none the less. Regrettably, all my VW's died before their time due to extreme rust. You ever take your bug to Hayman Motors for service?

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1) Yes, Hayman Motors for parts - but try to do as much of my own servicing as possible.

2) Sad to learn of your Beetle loss through rust.

3) One of mine is a 1972 Beetle, driven 35 years in the snow... with only two little dots of rust. Key is spray... spray... spray... spray... the crap out of it with oil. Got 5 Beetles which I srpay 3 or 4 times a year, at a total cost of about $ 8. The 1972 even still has its original blue paint job... paint never been touched up, but cleaned, waxed, then sprayed... and sprayed.......

Ross Virgin Toronto, Canada (where Beetles can last forever, even in the snow) .. .. .. ..

Are they still around? To tell you the truth, I stopped driving beetles when Hayman started ripping me off for service. I really didn't have the facilities or the time to service my own save for tune ups which were easy. I took the car to Hayman for brakes and other things. I took my cars there for close to 10 years.

My first, a 1970 beetle literally started dropping pieces of it's self all over the place. The final straw was when a friend got in the back and put his foot through the floor.

I used to get that "rust check" stuff about twice a year but finally my

74 super succumbed to it. Both my bugs were daily drivers and I put a lot of miles on them. Now, living in Southern California, my 71 super will last forever :-)