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<x-charset iso-8859-1>hello all. having come back sorted all my kit out after two months away i got round to putting my engine back in yesterday morning and it wouldnt start! so fault finding head on i traced it down to no spark pulled my 009 out with my petronics electric ignition in and put my vacume only advance distributor in the one with the real big vaccume can on it set the timing static -basic and it fired up first time i ran it for a while but had other things to do so happy that it was going left it till this morning to do some proper timeing etc. so to today not being to sure where to set it with my strobe i checked it was at roughly 5 btdc then went for a drive. the crazy pull away hesitation is gone obvously should of got rid of the 009 sooner however! my cylinder head temp has gone up 50 degrees ! being a seat of the pants guy i drove it up and down route b3 stopping at stratigic points to turn the dizzy ive got to a point where its so retarded now that the engine feels as if it s just going to die on me and the temp has only slightly dropped on my head gauge . could this be due to a weeker spark ie points instead of petronics or do i need to turn my idle up and retard further ?? or shall i make my life simple and ask if anybody knows the actuall setting for a vacume only advance dizzy on a carb engine. this has been a double edged sord im glad i got rid of the 009 and the horrible hesitation that came with it but im not so immpressed with my rise in head temps! any thoughts. neil verdon 66 sqr on irs pan best among equals rise to the top. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org </x-charset>