A guy I know is into old VWs. There’s quite a group around here. I can ask him if he might know of a group or a wheel
--FT Sent from iPhone > On May 23, 2021, at 6:37 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > You may recall I picked up a Karmann Ghia last November. Not wanting to > subject it to any salt or winter it has been in the garage since then. I > got it out today and it started up and ran nicely. It ran pretty rough > in the driveway the few times I tried to run it during last winter so I > figured I'd need to clean out the carbs and give it a general tune up. > > However it is running much better now. I added about 5g of fresh gas and > half a bottle of Techron but not sure that really made a difference. > > It has a dual carb setup with Webers and I took a closer look and they > don't seem to have any choke mechanism at all. So that would explain the > rough running in the cold. I guess the car was set up as a summer > driver. Not sure if such a thing is commonplace? > > I found in the documentation that with the rebuilt the prior > owner installed has a 9:1 compression ratio. So I guess I should > probably buy at least mid-grade gas for it? Or premium? > > I also discovered some rust on the passenger side rear floorpan. Not > catastrophic but probably need to replace about a square foot of it. A > project for next winter. The rest of the car seems solid. > > Need to track down an extra wheel for a spare tire, as that is > missing. Anyone know of a good Aircooled email list? > > Allan > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
