You must change your stock torque converter to a stall converter with at least a 2500 to 2900 stall speed. Yes the torque converter is the big round thing that bolts to the fly wheel and it 's inside the transmission.
"What is the VVT Cam Gear Unit?"
you might have a cam in the car that wll not work with a automatic trans ran in to this myself
You don't because there isn't one. Cam drive on a 1974 Bug is done through a big gear riveted to the end of the cam, that engages a gear on the crank.
Put the crank shaft at TDC. There is a dot on one of the crank gear teeth. It should be pointing toward the cam gear. Put the cam gear on without the chain. Turn the cam until the hole in the cam gear is pointing toward the crank. In other words, the hole in the cam gear and the dot on the crank gear should be in line. Then simply remove cam gear and apply the chain. The computer does the fine timing. Nothing to adjust.
No, the rough idle is the result of a high lift cam.
Align it with the dot on the crank gear.
Yes it is towards the cam gear.
You will see a key in the crank. Turn the crank until #1 piston is all the way up in the cylinder. You will see that the key in the crank will be stright up. and when you put the crank gear ( SMALL GEAR ) on, The dot on it will be stright up. Now the cam gear ( BIG GEAR ) bolt it on the cam, and find the dot on it. leave chain off for now. Then take and turn the cam gear until the dot is stright down over top of the crank gear dot. It will be hard to turn, but turn it with something. Now remove the cam gear and put chain and gear back on. Tighten all 3 bolts TIGHT on the cam gear. Now check the 2 dots, They should be stright over top of each other in a stright line. THATS IT. Put it all back together now.
the cam gear and the crank gear are dot to dot
some of these bad boys have a magnet in the timing cam gear must remove timing cover on these models
if you are talking about the beetle bug there is no timing belt. the cam is run off the crank gear to the cam gear.
pull the cam and lifters