Official Mexican / Brazilian Beetles - All years

[hopkin]

[radstude]

[Root_Werks]

[radstude]

[Root_Werks]

[2002EVC]

About to tackle fuel pump replacement. Bought new Chineseum pump from Rock Auto for a reasonable price and will likely rebuild the original as a backup.

Any advice from those who have done this already? Other than clamp the tank lines well so I don't end up with an armpit of gasoline?

[hopkin]

[2002EVC]

[coolbugfan]

[coolbugfan]

I changed the oil in my 1600i today. When I was done, I started it up and then went underneath to make sure everything was tight and wasn't leaking.

Good news: no oil leaking!

Bad news: fuel was leaking

I shut the car down and went to find the leak. From the back of the car, when I reached around the back of the engine fan shroud in the engine bay, there are two metal pipes coming out from behind the should perpendicular to the axis of the car, there are two small pieces of flexible hose attached to make the right angle where they then go back to hard metal piping. The hose pieces are attached with jubilee clips. On the lower piece of hose, it's leaking fuel at the end closest to the back of the car.

I tried to get a screwdriver on the clip to tighten it, but I couldn't quite reach and I was loosing the light so I decided to call it a day.

So, do I just need to tighten the clip? If yes, advice on how appreciated.
If no, what do I do? replace the little bit of hose and two new clips? Something else. I got pretty worried because it was a a decent leak and it was running down unto the heat exchangers under the car and I'd prefer to have a Bug rather than an inferno.

Help/suggestions appreciated.

Much thanks,

[GArBa]

replace the hose and clips. On fuel lines is usually recommended not to use jubilee clips but crimp type clamps.
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cars:
'97 type 1 1600i
'14 type AA Seat Mii (sadly dead after 270.000 km)
'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
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moped:
'82 Benelli Magnum 3v

[Root_Werks]

[hopkin]

[coolbugfan]

Thanks for the photo. It's on the other side of the engine, but it looks exactly like the red arrow - on the lower hose, join closest to the back of the car.

I just had the engine out last summer and these lines were disturbed. I'll be very disturbed if it has to come out again.

It was hard to see as the light was failing, but I think I have jubilee clips. So, recommendation is replace flexible bit of hose with new crimp clips? This is all very new to me. Any links on what size and type of fuel line, size and type of clip and how to do the job appreciated. I'm not even sure what questions to ask. Will I need a crimp tool, or will vice grips work? Thanks!

[hopkin]

[Root_Werks]

Last gauge installed (CHT), was able to paint the needle white so it matches better.

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When I set my timing, why do I flush, then take a pee?

[coolbugfan]

Horn question

Horn has never worked since I bought the car two years ago (1995 1600i). I'd like to change that!

Tasks so far:
1. Looked under front driver's fender and yes, I DO have a horn.
2. Clapped batter charger across the two horn terminals. I got noise! (Didn't sound great, but I've read there's an adjusting screw.)

The horn has two wires going to it. One is orange, the other looks white in the photo but seemed to have a yellow stripe on it. Steering wheel looks fine and like one of the few bits that hasn't been messed with in the car's past.

I put the voltmeter on tone (any voltage = tone), hooked one test lead to orange and the other to the front antisway bar, ignition on, nit horn button. No horn. No tone from volt meter.

Not sure how to proceed. Any suggestions or links to where this has been answered would be appreciated. Will be troubleshooting alone, so hard to crawl under front of car AND hit the steering wheel.

Thanks in advance!

[hopkin]

[coolbugfan]

Thanks, Hopkin. I will add the wiring diagram to my file of technical info on the car. Much appreciated.

I'm continuing on with the horn and pulled the centre horn button out of the steering wheel. When I short the two wires together, the horn sounds. Excellent!

So the issue is now with the horn button. The rest of the wiring to the horn seems good.

But what to do with the button? It was a bit concave, so I gave it a slight bend back to straight but that didn't fix it.

I'm not sure a) how to get it apart (beside twisting the two knobs) and b) what to do once it is apart.

Any advice appreciated! Thanks!

photo 1 - the horn button
photo 2 - wiring for horn button
photo 3 - shorting the wires and getting the horn to sound
photo 4 - the back of the horn button and where to start?

[hopkin]

Damn .. I save all sorts of crap, the horn ring I pictured was from a wrecked '83 Mexican Beetle. I pulled the steering wheel to get the horn ring and unfortunately tossed the bent steering wheel and button (but not before I took a few pics). [If I still had it, I would just send it to you for shipping cost ].

The good news is that the button you show was used on older cars, you might have some luck trying to find one, eBay or post a wanted add here on Samba.

Try putting your meter on the two terminals and press around to see if you get a connection, there may be some corrosion inside and you might find a 'sweet' spot. It looks like (on my pic) that you could open it by pulling back the tabs and possible clean it up.

Also, you may want to reach out to Antonio to see if he could source a new or used one.

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1971 Super Beetle (past)
1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car)