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    Here's a good tip for you Matt, first listen to John. though I do like the 73 Beetle's not the super beetle.
    All the bugs will leak fron their push rod tubes so pull the push rods and push rod tubes out with out removeing the heads. then buy some aluminum adjustable push rod tubes and put them back in with out removeing the heads. With the stock push rod tubes you had to pull the heads and expand the tubes by pulling them out or apart then to reinstall them you had to reinstall the head crushing the push rod tubes in to place. Then if you had a leak you had to do it all over again, what a pain in the butt.
    I remember when the first introduced the adjustable push rod tube what a god send they were!!! So I've been there and done that. The 73's are also not a macpherson strut model, the super beetle is though. stay away from it like john said.
    We have a entire junk yard full of old beetls down here in Dade city that is full of all kinds of bugs and if I was not so sick I would be building them and selling them off.
    Kurt

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    Yeah, the super beetles just never had the same respect or following as the torsion bar models. They had their own issues and were a little more complex. Not as pretty either IMO.

    Don

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