For this video, this portion of our restoration series on our 1969 beetle.
We're gonna be replacing the intake manifold and the carburetor.
Intake manifold we're replacing because previous owner did not have heat risers
going down to the exhaust. Being a single carburetor,
which is currently leaking, which is why we're replacing the carburetor.
single carburetor centered over the engine when you have air and fuel going down
the exhaust port they're gonna actually start to freeze and stick to the walls
which can cause hessitation
bad fuel economy et cetera et cetera.
So we're going to pull off this intake manifold install a new manifold, new carburetor
and that's gonna be it for this video
All right to pull off the intake manifold we're going to do a couple things here.
Disconnect the spark plug wires so we can get to the intake manifold bolt at the head.
Were going to loosen the intake manifold clamps on both sides.
Were going to disconnect the manifold from the carburetor, we're going to disconnect the the barrel nut.
We'll disconnect the electrical connections from the choke and the idle solenoid.
Take off the air cleaner of course and the fuel line.
Alright now that we've got the new intake manifold firmly in place, we've got the heat riser tubes
inserted into the manifold. We'll go ahead ready to get all the six millimeter hardware
lined up in a to bolt in the heat risers down to the exhaust itself.
With the intake manifold loosely bolted up to the heat risers.
We'll slide the new intake manifold boot
along with the original clamps we got the original end castings we got a new gasket
at the head get everything it set in place
and loosely mocked up before we go through and start tightening down clamps
heat risers and intake manifold bolts.
Alright we got the intake manifold, end castings and everything else installed and bolted down.
Everything at the head is tight here clamps are tight , hear risers are tight on both sides.
So at this point were ready to go ahead and install the carburetor.
Alright so this is a EMPI's 34 pict 3 replacement carburetor.
We've been using these for quite some time now. We've been very happy with them.
We've installed new studs, new gasket and we're ready to install it.
Just a matter of setting in place and installing the nuts.
Barrel nut, we'll cap off the vacuum lines hook up the fuel lines
and the idle and choke and she will be ready to go.
Alright with the last clamp on the fuel hose here we've replaced the fuel hose we have clamps at the carburetor
and we've replaced the fuel filter clams on both sides of that we've got cramps at
the fuel pump as well.
From the factory Volkswagen did not typically put clamps on the fuel
pressure the fuel lines
it's not a high pressure system but I like to run clamps just for a little bit of safety.
Alright we are all done with the carburetor installation.
We've got of course the carburetor is on. We got a new air cleaner on.
Oil filler breather hose going from the breather port on the bottom in the air cleaner
over to the oil filler, spark plug wires are in place.
Vacuum caps are on of course the idle solenoid and the choke are hooked up.
The carburetor comes factory tuned and factory set.
Shouldn't be much adjustment needed out of the box.
In another video later on we will get to tuning and timing as well,
as we're probably gonna change distributors,
but that would be for another day.