Go to your local Autozone, get one of these, plus the oil collector pan (plastic, six bucks) and the oil and filter. You'll be fine.
My Ford minivan is giving me grief and we can't figure it out...it blows a fuse, then the odometer and dome lights, speedometer don't work. We got the right fuse isolated, but whenever we change it, it just blows immediately. We got it to work for two days, but then it just wouldn't allow it. Just blows immediately. We even disconnected the battery, changed the fuse and then reconnected but it blew again, right away.
As soon as this gets fixed, we're gonna try to sell it and get a Bug. In the meantime, I dream.
There was a rebuilding a VW engine for dummies book, too.
I had a Ghia. Lots of fun.