VW Beetle Type 1

The firing order for all vintage beetles is 1-4-3-2 clockwise.

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Remove the steering wheel. When you do, you'll find the stalk is held in place with two screws.

Sounds like timing--the way I like to fix this is to put someone in the driver's seat. You loosen the distributor clamp with a 10mm nutdriver. With the nutdriver in the right hand (and on the nut) and the distributor in the left, I have the person make sure the car is in neutral then crank it while I slowly rotate the distributor. When it starts, I adjust it until the car idles nicely, then tighten the nut.

The seats in an old beetle are removed by sliding the seats completely forward while holding the seating moving mechanism in the open position. You may find it useful to have a small rubber mallet to gently tap the seat runners if you find that the seat sticks during removal. Note: There is a spring located under the seat which hooks from the seat to the seat runners which cause the seat to want to move forwards when the seat mechanism is engaged. If your Beetle still has the spring installed, use a small set of pliers to remove the spring before removing the seat.

The VIN for my 1968 VW Beetle is located under the hood, behind the spare tire, on an attached metal plate.

and under the rear seat dead center the hump.

front or either side of front of vehicle - position floor jack under front frame lift points rear or either side of rear of vehicle - position jack under the pinch point notches

Not sure if the dipstick is broken off the loop where you pull on it. Check where the dipsick tube is secured, you may want to remove the tube also, spray lots of lube where the tube goes into block, and be very patient,and turn the tube back and forth at first, and then pull it out.........

Take a hacksaw and cut the hood handle in half. Rotate the two halves until the hood opens.

Can you be more specific? what's wrong with it?

i have 2001 new beetle for sale 76,000 miles 3000

The last year of the production of the VW Beetle was 1979 and they were all convertibles
that year.

The 2012 Volkswagen Beetle has a 8 ft. 3.9 in. (99.9 in.) wheel base.

I have NO idea!!!!!! ... do I?????

Funny answer^As do most front wheel drive vehicles, the new VW Beetle has front struts and rear shocks.

1. Unhook the battery. Jack up the driver's side of the car and block the wheels. Crawl under, find the clutch arm, and unscrew the big wing nut from it. Then go into the engine compartment and unhook the accelerator cable.

2. Go in the passenger compartment and remove the pedal cluster. Make sure to unhook the accelerator cable. When you pull it out, you'll see the clutch cable sticking out a big hole in the side of the transmission tunnel. Before you pull the clutch cable completely out of the car, carefully!!! stick your finger in this hole and feel around for the tube the clutch cable is sticking out of. Also note the hook attached to the clutch pedal. If this hook looks like a hook, go to the next step. If the hook looks like part of it has broken off, you don't need to change the clutch cable.

If the hook is okay:

3. Pull the clutch cable out.

4. Paint your new clutch cable to make it last longer. When the paint dries, get a nice big glob of lithium grease in one hand and pull the whole cable through it.

5. Get a newspaper and spread it out on the floor of your car so you don't get the rug covered with grease. Thread the end of the clutch cable into the tube you felt in step 2, then push it in until the clevis at the end is sticking out of the hole about two inches.

If the hook is worn off (this happens more than you'd think):

3. There's a bolt on the pedal cluster that holds the hook in. Remove this bolt. Pull out the hook. Grease the shaft of the new hook, put it in place, line up the bolt hole and replace the bolt.

In all cases:

a. Go back under and put the clutch cable into the clutch arm. Screw the wing nut on until it just touches the clutch arm, then back it off a couple of turns.

b. Get out from under and check the clutch free play: you want about a quarter inch of travel before you feel resistance.

c. Put the car back on the ground and hook up the battery, then test drive the car to be sure it shifts nicely.

Ask 10 different people and you'll get 10 different answers. Any name-brand to be safe.

The book says 30w but you can use the newer multi weight oils. 10w30 is fine or if you have a warmer climate most of the year then you could get away with 10w40.

By my best research the the number is found on the end plate for a VW steering box early '60's for a Karmann Ghia.

Old classic VW Beetles did not have a water filled radiator, however they did have a oil cooler located in the fan shroud that is similar to a radiator. New Beetles have a water filled radiator.

They will hold 10.5 gallons of fuel.

buy a new viburam for the back of the fuel gauge on the speedo. It is a heat element that reads the sending unit in the tank

It's on the nose of the transmission

It's been done, but you have to send the bellhousing on the transmission out to be ground out. The bellhousing is for a 180mm flywheel, and a 1600 has a 200mm flywheel. In the bad old days before we knew any better, the accepted shade tree mechanic's way to do this was to pull the engine and the transmission out of the car, set them on the ground, bolt them together loosely--just enough so the starter would engage--start the engine, then pull the engine and transmission together with the bolts. This is extremely dangerous and you should never ever even think about doing this. No. I'm not nudge-nudge-wink-wink; this is dumber than dirt and you could get killed this way. I have no idea what people were thinking, and I'm almost certain beer was involved. Anyway, take the flywheel, engine and bellhousing to a machinist and tell the guy to make it fit.

Remove oil pan

Passenger side, behind the manifold.

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