What fuel injection system is used on a 1973 vw 412 station wago

[ADIDAS]

Does anyone know which fuel injection system was used on a 1973 412L station wagon. Pretty sure the engine is a 1.7 Does it have the D-jetronic or L jetronic? Thanks

[412STi]

Hi

Our type 4 was equipped only with the D-Jetronic.
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[KTPhil]

Would that make it a 412LE, not a 412L? Or were models not always perfectly synced with the badges?

[raygreenwood]

[KTPhil]

Type 3 and 4 badging may not have been identical, but for the Type 3:

L Luxus (luxury, as in clock and carpeting!)
T Touring (Fastback)
E Einspritzer (German for injection)

So for my '71 US-destined (deluxe) fastback, the European scripting would have been VW1600TLE, but in the US, it just got VOLKSWAGEN. I have seen actual cars with this script, and I now have it on my US model, decked out with side parking lamps (tied to turn signals and 4-ways), halogen headlights, and amber rear turn signals (still MPH speedo, though).

Again, I haven't found any claim the Type 4 script suffixes were identical, but by then VW had standardized a lot of things like this...

[raygreenwood]

[Type4ever]

Ray, in Europe LE means Luxury Einspritzung (Injection). Also possible with only E. In 74 we have 4 different 412's. 412, 412L, 412S and 412 LS. The first two with carburators 75 BHP. The last two (with S) 85 BHP. With L means also here Luxury-version.

[937carrera]

KTPhil is right on the type 3 designations, but they were not universal as there was not only the 1600 TL model, but according to my '72 MY brochure the 1600A was carbs while 1600E was the injection version

Type 4 was very similar, for the '72 model year in the UK there was only the 411LE, though on other European markets there was a lower spec 411E.

For the final model year in the UK there was the increase in engine size and designation change to 412LS.

In Germany however the final model year had 4 models:

412
412L
412S
412LS

the L designating the trim and the S designating the engine output, 75HP for the standard and 85HP for the S as type4ever posted above.

I didn't know about the lower output engine until I read the brochure just now The compression ratio was lower at 7.8:1 rather than 8.6:1

That doesn't really answer the OP question though and the question is about US spec cars. According to type4.org the switch to L-Jetronic was made at the same time the European cars moved back to carbs

Best way to tell might be a picture of the engine bay and there's a b/w one here https://www.type4.org/manuals/ljet/components/ljet10.html#location-of-components[/url

A 1973 model year will be D-Jet, late 73 build /74 model year would be L-Jet

Hope that helps
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1974 412LS Variant 1.8 AN engine on twin carbs
1973 412LE 4 door Fastback / Saloon 1.7 EA engine on D-Jet

[raygreenwood]