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On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 17:42, Ben Doughney wrote: > on 29/8/2002 8:46 AM, Matthew_Russell@ziba.com at Matthew_Russell@ziba.com > wrote: > > > i went up to powells (bookstore) at lunch since i'm only a couple blocks > > away, an awesome resource btw, and i found in a book a picture which > > shows, i suspect, the proper relation of the rotor/no1 timing mark/plug > > wire position...if it's correct, no 1 should be somewhere around 4-5 > > o'clock (6 being rear of car), if this is so, than my dist. is truly > > backwards and will be an easy fix (i hope).... > > That sounds like the bug orientation of the distributor. The Type 3 and bug > are slightly different here. The type 3 is more half past 2. Either way, you > should be able to just put the #1 wire in above the mark on the distributor > rim, and follow that with wires 4, 3, and 2 in a clockwise direction. > My '66 dist., #1 is at the 10 o'clock position. and it is installed right. I have a '65 T-3 distributor here also, and installed, the #1 mark would be at the 10 o'clock position. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/