I bought a 1971 VW Beetle from a friend of mine that lives out of state.
I drove 3000 miles round trip to pick it up and now here in North Dakota it sits outside where I am finally able to get to it with all the snow gone and not freezing as it has been since I got it a few months ago.
They had a lot of work done to it and I was told that it worked good except it started making back firing sounds and they were told the carburator needed cleaning and something about a spring on it might of came off. This VW has a 1600 Daul Port Engine. I have several books and want to know came I just take the carurator off and clean it and is it a big job. I haven't worked on VW yet but I sure am willing to try anything and now I have a VW I would love to learn as much as possible about him, I named him "Gizmo" and I can't wait till I can start driving him around.
If anyone has any thoughts of what the first things I should do or know PLEASE let me know.
Thanks for any reply...
Linda