A "taco plate" is the inspection plate on a type 4 engine (that you don't have).urtheiz wrote:i believe a dumb question is better than no question, but what is a "taco plate"?
Looks sort of like this....with the oil temp sender installed.
A "taco plate" is the inspection plate on a type 4 engine (that you don't have).urtheiz wrote:i believe a dumb question is better than no question, but what is a "taco plate"?
it's just what some people refer to when talking about the round oil sump plate cover on the bottom end of a Type IV motor.urtheiz wrote:what is a "taco plate"?
The 914 had a modified plate (see http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/ ... id=1135463), that looks a lot more like a taco. Gets the sender out of the airstream,too.Hippie wrote:I still wonder how it got that nickname. It looks rather unlike a taco.