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A VW engine only hold 2.5 quarts of oil.  That is not much compared to the T4 914 at 4 quarts and the air cooled 911 at 12 quarts (it's dry sump so virtually none in engine sump).  You get down a quart at 2.5 to 1.5 and that doesn't leave much to suck up for lubrication and cooling (heat dissipation). Hard cornering (probably not expected by VW for a T1 in 1968) further exacerbates a low oil level. Then look at the stock fly screen used for filtering oil - catches bug size chunks not microns like a real spin on filter. Anything to increased oil capacity to a more reasonable 4 quarts helps extend oils lubricating capability.

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"Doctor Bob" wrote: " It adds a couple of steps (literally) to open and close the hood:  

A.1 Get outa the car

1. Undo the straps,

A.2  Get back into the car

2. Pull the hood cable,

A.3  Get back outa the car

3. Open the hood,

4. Close the hood,

A.4  Get back into the car

5. Push in the hood cable,

A.5 Get back outa the car

6. Buckle the straps

A.6  Get back into the car"

I have the attention span of a gnat's eyebrow, even at this slightly advanced age when I'm supposed to be mellowing.  There is no friggin way I could ever stand for all that, just to get a gas fill-up.  

Come smokin' into the gas pump, Pop the hood, jump out, mess with the pump screen, pump the gas (being careful not to get any onya...or the car), button up and drop the hood, blast on outa there.  At the BP station, with it's fast credit card screen, less than 2 minutes....

Doctor Bob from the Muppets:

Hi Gordon .   I've had several Speedsters with hood straps and none of them required the additional steps of unfastening and refastening the straps before and after pulling the hood release.  I guess that maybe I just don't install them so they are so tight that the hood can't pop slightly when the release is pulled.

So in my case, the only extra steps are undoing and redoing the straps.   I've never experienced a car where the release needs to be pushed back in. 

I want to go back to the wheels. if we're spending Lee's money, why are we suggesting the knockoff of the original? Lee, if you're going outlaw you should get a set of Technomagnesio wheels.  

And yes, black. I'm more preferential to a licorice black.

Jim has a very nice black outlaw.

TecnoMagnesio_L 

Best of luck, Lee.

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Lee posted:

Technomagnesios?!!!   I just priced em out I'll be on suicide watch at that point ��

 

tons of great ideas thanks folks!!!!

The thing is, Lee, they are really, really light, and any time you can cut unsprung weight off of your car it's a big deal. And yeah, I know they're expensive. Makes the aluminum wheels look very affordable.

But the Technomagnesio's are just so cool...

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