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1975 VW Beetle 1600 Engine Start / Run

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Uploaded by on Apr 2, 2007

Here's the original engine from my '75 Beetle convertible. It has 95,000+ miles on it, but it runs pretty good.

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  • Both my schematics for 73 and later bug and 74 and later super show only 2 wires to the solenoid. I think my 75 has the third wire as well......and looking at the fuel injection schematic, it shows a wire from 'start' terminal to ECU #4 / fuel pump relay 86 / cold start valve / thermo time switch. I have written that it is a red/black wire. Hope this helps.

  • I just found a 73 VW Beetle with an all stock 1600 engine in it, I plan to drop the engine and buy all the necessary stock rebuild parts, BUT....I live high up at 7,000 ft. above sea level in Colorado in the mountains and thinking maybe I'd be better off to get all the necessary parts and go fuel injection,Carb'd engines run awful up here, would a Bosch L-Jetronic fuel injection system be better to go with like VW started putting on their engines on the 75+ models? I want the best MPG I can get

  • @undergroundbasement Then Id stick with carb- Fuel injection fires all 4 injectors once a revolution......if I understand the operation correctly. Can't be that good on fuel.

  • ...They do have filters- In the bottom of the oil pan.

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  • lmfao "smokes like a fish"

  • Fuel injection? They had that in the Bettle?

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  • I have a 78 fuel injected beetle. On the solenoid I have 2 wires one from the battery one from the ignition. John muir's book says there is suppose to be a third small wire that is missing from mine. Where is this wire suppose to come from and where does it get hooked up to on the solenoid?

  • @hunterziegelmann Yes....they did.

  • @Brockie777 No, they did not... And it's called a Beetle. But peple can, and have modded the engines to have fuel injection.

  • 95000 miles on an engine without an oilfilter is pretty sweet.

  • @colton416 LOL I missed picking on this comment the first time around..... A startable engine ? NOPE ! I'm making the smoke and sounds with my mouth.... J/K Yes it starts and runs........

  • @racindeere65 I never heard of it pre-1975. Perhaps introduced late in '74 but I'm pretty sure in the USA it was '75. I know the wagons (squarebacks) and perhaps the sedans (notchbacks) had it earlier maybe '71 or '72, but I don't know alot about those models. Everything I've ever seen or read about says carbs before '75

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