Yee Haw, got my governor working/adjusted! *Video!*

[MoneyMike]

[70bus]

Before I go install the one I have on my 1679... do the 1500 governors need a support bracket like the 36hp do?
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Craig K
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Raul the 65 singlecab

Karl the 70 nine-seater

[tasb]

The carburetor brace was only a feature of 36 hp engines. 40 hp onwards did not have a brace. Wether the Bus had a governor or not isn’t relevant. The brace may have been needed due the small size of the intake manifold. While on the topic; if the 36 hp engine had a governor the brace was shorter than the usual: making it quite rare.
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1961 (October)Single Cab- Road Trip Workhorse

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[matthew henricks]

Maybe i missed it but was the part number for a 1500 SP intake manifold with the shorter neck posted? I saw the images but no part number.

TIA.
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[70bus]

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65 Pritschenwagen
"If Von Dutch was alive, he'd walk in there with a pistol and shoot these people." - Robert Williams

Raul the 65 singlecab

Karl the 70 nine-seater

[BulliBill]

Hi all,

I kinda suspect that one of the main reasons for these "speed limiter" devices was to keep the engines in work Transporters alive a lot longer. Workers who didn't care to treasure or protect their employers work truck that the employee drove around might ocassionally (or even always) drive them abusively. To keep repairs and engine rebuilds down, "speed limiter" equipped engines could be set by either the employer or at the VW dealership to prevent over-reving. They could be sealed with a tamper-evident wire with lead seal.

I even have a special service dealership tool in my collection that was used by dealership mechanics to crush the lead seal on the wire while at the same time impressing a cool VW logo into the lead seal! This made it evident if anyone tampered with the speed limiter rpm settings...

I'm pretty sure I remember writing a whole article in my "Transporter Talk" Hot VWs article days all about these "speed limiters" if someone needs more info...

Bill Bowman
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Coeur D'Alene - Lake Shore Volkswagen
Mission VW - San Fernando
Thornton VW - Stockton

Thanks for any help!

[srfndoc]

[70bus]

The example Everett posted has a '10'

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Craig K
70 Neunsitzer
65 Pritschenwagen
"If Von Dutch was alive, he'd walk in there with a pistol and shoot these people." - Robert Williams

Raul the 65 singlecab

Karl the 70 nine-seater

[Eric&Barb]

[tasb]

That sounds right to me. A date code would have more digits.
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1957 Kombi low mileage 36 hp governor equipped M 178 Slow Drag Winner 2014, 2015, 2018

1965 hardtop Deluxe Microbus owned since 1990 M 620 factory 12 v 1500cc

1961 (October)Single Cab- Road Trip Workhorse

Member# 2059

[srfndoc]

[70bus]

That's the kind of fact about productionwork that would clear up many mysteries; as a hisory major decades ago, I dug around to see if there were interviews w/ Hanover and Wolfsburg workers, and there are... in German, of course! Also, many were about labor relations and societal issues as opposed to 'what was it like drilling holes for truckbed slats?'
Imagine what this guy could tell us?

besides '...the abyss stares back,' I mean.

Still, it would be nice if someone in Germany dug up what there was and put together a book about these things. I'd settle for a thesis paper!
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Craig K
70 Neunsitzer
65 Pritschenwagen
"If Von Dutch was alive, he'd walk in there with a pistol and shoot these people." - Robert Williams

Raul the 65 singlecab

Karl the 70 nine-seater

[tasb]

It all depends upon the part being discussed too. For example the ending letter suffix in the VW part number of distributors tells us what carburetor to match distributor too. It had nothing to do with molds or production date.
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1957 Kombi low mileage 36 hp governor equipped M 178 Slow Drag Winner 2014, 2015, 2018

1965 hardtop Deluxe Microbus owned since 1990 M 620 factory 12 v 1500cc

1961 (October)Single Cab- Road Trip Workhorse

Member# 2059

[BulliBill]

Ah! I found a couple of photos of the VW dealership special service tool that I have that a technician would use to install a tamper evident lead & wire seal onto the closed-up cover of a Transporter "speed limiter" (governor) and then he would crush the new lead seal and impress a VW logo into the lead seal.

before: three old used and removed seals on the left, and a new ready-to-go lead and wire seal on the right.

during: the special service too with VW logo dies crushing the seal.

after: the the wire and seal are locked and the VW logo is impressed into the seal.

Bill Bowman
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I'm looking for these license plate frames for my fleet:
Coeur D'Alene - Lake Shore Volkswagen
Mission VW - San Fernando
Thornton VW - Stockton

Thanks for any help!