In 1973 I bought a 1972 Super Beetle that had the engine missing. It had low miles and an old 1600cc engine came with it. The original engine had been stolen. The owner told me his son was involved in that, but wasn't charged since he testified against the thieves.
I rebuilt the old engine with new bearings, cylinder barrels, had the valves ground, some of the exhaust valves needed replacing. Had to split the case to remove the crankshaft. One old piston had a hole in it.
After I installed the engine it seem to below on power wouldn't climb a small hill in fourth. My VW manual said not to adjust the main jet adjusting screw. I called the local VW shop about the low power and I thought the engine was getting too warm. They said to throw away the shop manual and open that main jet adjusting screw. That fixed the power and overheating.
I had bought the car to resell, but my wife wanted it so we kept it. The piston that had the hole was caused by a lean fuel mixture. Hal
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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