Thanks again. I decided to get the van one as I figured it would be pretty similar and would actually suit the connection of the new pump, as it would do the job of the 8-12mm adapter I had bought. It's far lest restrictive, I can easily blow through it, unlike the last one. But long story short it ...

Actually where can I get the right fuel filter? I have had a dig around apparently the official filter is a square one with 8mm connections? But i've only found the van one with one bigger connection. I wan't to save myself some bother by just getting the right one rather than guessing at the motor ...

UPDATE: Was having a play around today. It seemed a bit odd the way it was behaving, some times up to pressure sometimes not and would sit at about 15psi, then you could hear the note change and the pressure would rise. Definitly seemed like it was struggling drawing fuel. So I removed the filter an...

type3 wrote:The metal ones are usually found in K-Jet systems which can handle up to 80psi.

Maybe that's it the pump is rated to 3 bar (45psi). If the filter is much runs a much higher pressure then maybe there's too much resistance. Certainly as that's at the Low pressure part of the system.

I was planning on fitting the fuel filter after the pump. Not sure if the filter is for carb or FI come to think of it. It's a metal cased filter as my logic when i got it was it would be better up to pressured systems. It's pretty big too, slightly smaller diameter than the pump. I'm also aware the...

OK, may have some teething issues... Now that it's running I went out to set the timing tonight. But it still isn't running right, checking my pressure gauge, whilst running the pressure is right down below 20psi. Stop the engine and run the pump it goes up to 28. I struggle to believe the pump can'...

That pump was £28 including delivery. Plus I got a 12mm to 8mm adapter and some 12mm fuel hose. I haven't checked it fits the existing mount yet as I need to tidy up all the pipes. But it looks like it should be really close. If it doesn't fit it will only need a little packing out or bending to acc...

Well at last an update. I got hold of a new pump, a generic thing from ebay, like this http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5557/kgrhqiokiie3c5l1fmobnyq.jpg It has a 12mm inlet and 10mm outlet, the outlet went on fine to the hoses and I bought a 12mm to 8mm adapter for the inlet. So after wiring it up, ...

Before getting a new pump I replaced the spring for a more comparable one to the picture. But now the pump wont pump. It spins but no pressure and gets to the it from the tank. Not sure if its just not priming or something else, either way it builds no pressure. I tried moving the pump around, pinch...

Well reading some of the other threads I found a picture to clarify what small spring I was talking about http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/kembiff/Variant%20Fudge/P1050061.jpg From here The spring I put in probably wasn't as big as that, so I think I will swap it for a bigger one, seeing as I...

Well some progress. Tonight I took the pump off, then following the guide I dismantled it. The first thing I noticed was that I couldn't see the Pressure Release Valve PRV in that it was stuck in. That would explain why it wasn't holding pressure. But I couldn't do anything to get the PRV to move so...

http://www.vwtype3and4club.org.uk/_docs/type3and4/FIPumpoverhaul-2.doc Ah excellent that looks good. I have had the pump off and run it in a bath of diesel and it seems to pump ok. But I didn't dismantle it at all. If that fails to sort my problem are there any after market pumps, or pumps from oth...

Thanks for the suggestions. I decided to buy a fuel pressure tester to check all was well. On turning the ignition, when the pump primed nothing happens. I eventually bypassed the relay to run the pump continuously. After a good few seconds, the pump started pumping and the pressure climbed to 28psi...

Hoping you can give me some ideas, i'm at a bit of a loss with my Injection type 3 not starting. Its a project car which I got in an non-running state. Earlier in the year I got it running and it was ok, would idle unattended, needed a bit of a tweak but was ok, but after I fitted the air filter its...

Well the world's slowest project progresses. Delayed by a head rebuild of my Panda. Anyway, I eventually got hold of an air filter, so taking time out of head rebuilding I treated the fasty to a proper air filter. It sounds much better with all the air hoses connected up correctly. However, true to ...

Well on revisiting the brakes today and getting my brother to work the pedal the fronts bled no problem at all. Brakes are crap though and pedal goes right down though does pump up. I'm going to leave it a day to let the air settle then bleed it all again and see what it's like from there.

Well I've taken the bleed nipples all the way out the caliper and nothing comes out. When I cleaned the calipers i jetted air through them and there didn't seem to be a blockage and everything moved ok. Since both front brakes are affected I guess it's unlikely both flexi-hoses are blocked (they loo...

Hi Mike, yes i might be interested in your seal kit. As it happens my calipers were the wrong way round so I swapped them over. Now my next problem is bleeding them. I didn't have any help today so was using an easi bleed kit. After finding a couple of leaks where some joins weren't tightened I star...

After taking the front hubs off, I wasn't very clear on the various manuals' descriptions of the correct tightness to do the main hub nut up to. The process I settled on was to tighten them quite hard to get everything to sit, then back them off and do them up a tweak over finger tight before lockin...

After my adventures with the front calipers, I have now been having a look at the rear cylinders. Curiously a previous owner replaced one cylinder and not the other. In checking the old cylinder, which was missing a bleed nipple, I sheared the new cylinder's bleed nipple off in the old one. So I too...

Thanks! Promptly set it on fire though. Yesterday I went to turn it around in the garage so I could work on the brakes more easily. So I thought I would take it down the road seeing as I could! But as I went to change into 2nd smoke started billowing thickly out the dash so I killed the ignition, un...

Well i've done quite a bit on this just been a bit lazy taking photos. However, today was a milestone day. I drove the car first time under it's own steam! Only to reverse it out the garage to cure the exhaust paint and to drive it back in. The brakes don't work, only the handbrake, but the engine a...

No, they are handed but don't look it. It's the way the piston slot goes. On a Type 3 the metal piston retaining plate (a sort of triangle) is on the bottom, so the angled cut-away part of the piston that it sits in is on the lower side. If you get it the wrong way, you get increased pad wear. Ah t...

Also where can I get new caliper seals from? Are they the same as any other models.

I should add it's a late '73 Type 3.

So I took the brake calipers off to make sure they were running free and to clean them up. But I forgot which way round they went :? They look like a mirror image of each other except they have different numbers embossed on them, (from memory something like 117 and 162). Can they go on either side o...