SC, You must have been ducking down when we talked about "Great Flapping Things"  This is a generic term used in conjuction with Thingys, crap or any other object we find floating,crawling,flying around in areas where we would not normaly see them.
  Has it ever crossed your mind to have your fuel tank cleaned out ?  I can't blame you if you don't want to. Stuper Beetle tanks are so much fun to pull.
  Just because you wiggled a wire on your engine doesn't mean you tuned it up. "Triangle" tune- ups are a lot like Mexican tune-ups. Proper tune-ups are when you replace things like plugs,points/cond., adj. valves, maybe plug wires and any other little things that need attention ALL at the same time. Its amazing what you can cure !! :roll:

What are you doing to get it started ?    You could take the fuel tap out and tear that screen off. You have enough filters to take care of any crap from the tank I would guess.
   Yea, It was always a profound revelaton when I found out that new parts work better after they were installed.
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I thought they went in the glove box. Dangit.

I dont have a glove box to store things in,  I just have a hole to the trunk.
I have a bunch of parts that i just look at and don't install.  Lets see That brass coil that opend the air flappers in the dog house,  the tin that is under neat it,  the 4 or 6 screws that hold the gas tank in... gravity has worked well so far,  2 Left side running boards, anybody have a right side one?  By the way,  I have gone 2 days with out the phanotm loss of gas stall out problem. Me so happy.   SC

Im so sad.  I attacked that 4th muffler bolt today..  It was brutal.  Chisle flying,  13mm wrench twisting , hammers sparks, OUCH  scratched my knuckle..  It aint moving.

 Now its a 12.2 mm round edge nut.  I am looking for my vise grips but they are hiding somewere.  Here Vicy vicy,, come out come out... Should I try and drill little holes in it and peel it off the stud?  OR is a hacksaw a better plan of assault?   SC

Bugtech  I decided to see what the sparkplugs look like.  I reached around to one by the oil cooler.   The sparkplug wire was not attached to clip part that holds the plug.  I wondered why I had such a slow idle.  Im going to invent a device that lets me know if the sparkplugs are working and the distributor is plugged up right...Maybe I'll make an audio  tape of what 4 cylinders firing sounds like.
It looks like I got bosch Platnum tips.  thanks previous owner.  SC

Do you know if the nuts that hold the muffler on should be replaced?,  Because of the exhause heat,  are they special or just hardware store quality,  I'm about to hack saw this last offending muffler nut.  


I ordered a gasket set and some boshe points. SC