whats this....

44 posts · joined May 2013 · 26 May 2013, 8:21 am

#957108

....and why's it full of oil? And should it be? If this is an obvious thing.... Sorry 😀 68n00b... Haha. It's off my 68 bug 1500cc...stock standard. Thanks for any help!

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aushardkore Casual Dubber

44 posts · joined May 2013 · 26 May 2013, 8:23 am

#957109

Erm, in case its not obvious... Its off the top of my solex carby.. I mention this only because I am stupid and would have no idea what I was looking at if I saw the photo I posted 😂

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,785 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 May 2013, 8:27 am

#957110

Looks like an oil bath air filter

Futue te ipsum!!!

aushardkore Casual Dubber

44 posts · joined May 2013 · 26 May 2013, 8:37 am

#957111

Ahhh....okay.... I'll go google that! Thanks 😂

vwo60 Veteran Volks Folk

2,036 posts · joined Feb 2007 · 26 May 2013, 9:10 am

#957115

Invest in a manual for your car.

aushardkore Casual Dubber

44 posts · joined May 2013 · 26 May 2013, 9:19 am

#957117

I will be... I'm also going to continue researching everything I can!

empi Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,131 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 May 2013, 10:14 am

#957122

its standard

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Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,785 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 May 2013, 12:12 pm

#957132

If you don't have a manual google VW-resource by Rob & Dave.

Probably the best on line service manual you can get.

Futue te ipsum!!!

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,785 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 May 2013, 4:55 pm

#957150

here is the link to Rob & Dave

http://www.vw-resource.com/

Futue te ipsum!!!

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 May 2013, 5:12 pm

#957156

aushardkore wrote:....and why's it full of oil? And should it be? If this is an obvious thing.... Sorry 😀 68n00b... Haha. It's off my 68 bug 1500cc...stock standard. Thanks for any help!

Yes, its an oil bath air filter
common on air cooled VWs up until about 1974-75

the air rushes in/sucked in and goes down and hits the oil in the bottom// any dust sticks to the oil...

VW manuals on ebay all the time.. Aussie one isn;t bad and is cheap... You cannot have enough of them as they are all written by different people so are different..
a good one for You would be the Dummies Guide for the compleat idiot... by the late John Muir, who wasn't a mechanic , He just wrote books.. lol
No offence meant... many people on here have one under their front seat.. lol
it does show with drawings just about everything You need to know.. about Your beetle...
it pops up on ebay also..

Rob and Daves shadetree manual is also very good with questions and answers and a LOT of info..
Rob is a member of AVD and lives in South Australia..
website is in the other post..

cheers

LEE

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

aushardkore Casual Dubber

44 posts · joined May 2013 · 27 May 2013, 6:59 pm

#957369

Thanks bizarre, ill be finding that asap - lee, the cheek! But definitely a good idea 😂