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Re: [T3] 1963 Squareback purchased


<x-charset iso-8859-1>On Tuesday 08 January 2002 08:59, Jim Adney wrote:
> On 7 Jan 2002, at 20:52, Russ Wolfe wrote:
> > Yep, that is the right distributor for a '63. They didnt go to the
> > smaller diameter dist. until about the end of '64 on the complete line
> > of models, except for an oddball dist. that was made by VW themselves.
>
> Was the VW distributor also large in diameter? Although all the
> manuals seem to show them, I've never seen one.
>
> Is it true that the VW dist and the VW starter were both pretty
> much piles of junk?
>
>
The VW distributor was about the same diameter as the modern Bosch dist., and 
yes it and their start were junk. BTW, i think I even have a set of NOS 
points and rotor for one of the VW distributors.


-- 
Russ Wolfe
'71 Fastback AT
'66 Fastback MT (IT RUNS)
russw@classicvw.org
http://www.classicvw.org

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