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bugzla Custom Title Time!

1,164 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#755005
have u removed the accelator cable tube sometimes that goes all the way to the back tin wear

bugzla Custom Title Time!

1,164 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#755013
thermostat rod normally on the right side under the cylinders

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,785 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#755026
You need to remove the air discharge on the front of the shroud
Futue te ipsum!!!

Sides Veteran Volks Folk

2,220 posts · joined May 2007 ·

#755134
bugzla wrote:thermostat rod normally on the right side under the cylinders
Really... you've seen a thermostat on a car ??? I've pulled a lot of Volksy's apart and never seen one... to me they rank right up there with unicorns, Nessie etc.

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71-BEETLE-SEDAN AKA Josh

1,058 posts · joined Mar 2009 ·

#755137
Whats a air cooled thermostat look like, ive only seen em in books, looked throught 6 or 7 engines never seen one.

HappyDaze Superannuated

2,887 posts · joined Jun 2009 ·

#755186
Sides wrote:
bugzla wrote:thermostat rod normally on the right side under the cylinders
Really... you've seen a thermostat on a car ??? I've pulled a lot of Volksy's apart and never seen one... to me they rank right up there with unicorns, Nessie etc.
We had a stock VW engine on Lanock Motors' engine dyno, fine-tuning it for the 1963 Armstrong 500. I thought of trying a reading with the t'stat 'throttle' ring removed. Guess what?.......HP dropped! Back to 40HP with the ring back in place. Left it there for the race!

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bugzla Custom Title Time!

1,164 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#755192
i remember having the same problem not being able to remove the fan housing and relised there was a linkage attached undernieth this was the thermostat seen a many but not lately...................😊

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#755383
Sides wrote:Really... you've seen a thermostat on a car ??? I've pulled a lot of Volksy's apart and never seen one... to me they rank right up there with unicorns, Nessie etc.
i must be special 😂

i've got a working setup on one of mine
was lucky i found a NOS thermostat in my old bosses loft from his dealership days

its funny to see the way it still pulls close even when the cars hot and idleing

the dealerships were issued with bulletins saying they werent needed in aus conditions 🙄

funbug Seriously Crusin Dubber

135 posts · joined May 2006 ·

#755568
Joel wrote:
Sides wrote:Really... you've seen a thermostat on a car ??? I've pulled a lot of Volksy's apart and never seen one... to me they rank right up there with unicorns, Nessie etc.
i must be special 😂

i've got a working setup on one of mine
was lucky i found a NOS thermostat in my old bosses loft from his dealership days

its funny to see the way it still pulls close even when the cars hot and idleing

the dealerships were issued with bulletins saying they werent needed in aus conditions 🙄
Joel you wouldn't perhaps have another one?

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#755601
nah sorry, even i made the mistake of chucking them out when i was younger and didnt know better

alien8 Wolfsburg Wizard

521 posts · joined Sep 2008 ·

#755608
Joel wrote:nah sorry, even i made the mistake of chucking them out when i was younger and didnt know better
Hey Joel did you have the lower sled tins and heaterboxes connected when using a thermostat/flaps?

I got a good second hand one from the states but it makes the engine run 10*C hotter for some reason. Maybe because I did not have the sled tins and heaterboxes connected? It took a long time for the thermostat to open with out them. I tested the thermostat in hot water ( in the bracket)and it opens up in about 10 seconds.I also tested that the flaps are fully open when the thermostat is at its peak.
I have since put the sled tins back on (just for air flow) and I think you could make a heat sheld to inclose the J tube side of the tins to keep the heat around the thermostat?
Or maybe I will just leave it off,like the workshops suggest.

Hey fun bug, If I cant get the running temp down the thermostat is yours.

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#755610
hey Brad,

if you have a functioning thermostat then you have to have the sleds and heaterboxes with hoses connected or if u have J-pipes you need those industrial tins that seal off the open area

this is all so the 'stat sees the temp coming off the heads and barrels not cooled by road draft which is the problem in your case

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#755612
heres some industrial tins
pretty easy to make yourself




alien8 Wolfsburg Wizard

521 posts · joined Sep 2008 ·

#755619
Thanks mate, I thought that the missing tins and boxes would be the case. Those side bits for the tins seem pretty easy to make.