Manuals

Air cooled Volkswagen Service Manuals by Robert Bentley, Publishers
The best service manuals available for your Volkswagen, these are abridged versions of the work shop manuals issued by the factory to the dealerships.

• Type 2
  • Volkswagen Transporter Workshop Manual: 1950-1962, Type 2
  • Volkswagen Transporter Workshop Manual: 1963-1967, Type 2
  • Volkswagen Station Wagon/Bus Official Service Manual Type 2: 1968-1979 (handy Index for this manual)
  • Volkswagen Vanagon Official Factory Repair Manual: 1980-1991
• Type 1
  • Volkswagen Workshop Manual, Types 11, 14, and 15 (Beetle and Karman Ghia) 1952-1957
  • Volkswagen Workshop Manual, Types 11, 14, and 15 (Beetle and Karman Ghia) 1958-1960
  • Volkswagen 1200 Workshop Manual: 1961-1965
  • Volkswagen Beetle and Karmann Ghia Official Service Manual Type 1: 1966-1969
  • Volkswagen Super Beetle, Beetle and Karmann Ghia Official Service Manual Type 1: 1970-1979
• Type 3
  • Volkswagen Fastback and Squareback Official Service Manual Type 3: 1968-1973

Survey of bay-window Bus repair manuals by Richard Atwell.

The Sermons of Bob Hoover by Robert S. Hoover. 800 pages on CD.
No longer available.

Some representative writings from Mr. Hoover in the Type2.com Library:

• vacuum advance distributors
• oil coolers
• carburetor problems

How to Rebuild Your Volkswagen Air Cooled Engine by Tom Wilson. HP Books.
"Step-by-step rebuilding directions for any aircooled VW engine, from the Type-1 1961 Beetle to the Type-4 used in the 1983 VW Bus. Describes engine teardown, inspection, reconditioning, assembly, installation and tune-up. Full parts ID interchange."

How to Hot Rod Volkswagen Engines by Bill Fisher. HP Books.
"All the air-cooled engine-building basics to unleash hidden horsepower in classic Volkswagens. Includes tips on carburetion, ignition and exhaust tuning, case beefing, cylinder head flow work, camshaft selection, lubrication and cooling upgrades, 6 to 12 volt conversions and much more. Plus a 6 page history of the first air-cooled VW engines."

How to Tune and Modify Bosch Fuel Injection by Ben Watson. (ISBN 0-87938-570-7)

How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-By-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot by John Muir, Tosh Gregg, Peter Aschwanden (Illustrator). John Muir Publications. (ISBN: 156261343X)
An excellent first book for the novice who wants to wrench on their own VW but doesn't know where to begin. Text is comprehensible without a technical background and illustrations help explain the relationships of components unpretentiously.

VW Beetle & Transporter: Guide to Purchase & D.I.Y. Restoration by Lindsay Porter.
The most comprehensive book available on restoring a Type 1 or Type 2 Volkswagen.