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On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 18:18, Ben Doughney wrote: > on 12/1/2003 11:06 AM, Dave Hall at dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk wrote: > > > Some dismiss the retard of 3 degrees on the distributor cam for cyl 3 as > > nonsense (or only used for pre-doghouse fan-housings on Type 1 engines). I > > don't know if anyone ever bothered to put the timing light on no.1 and no.3 to > > see if there's any difference in the firing point. Maybe I'll give it a go > > tomorrow. Normally it doesn't matter anyway, but if you're using a different > > cam lobe on the distributor, it could be important to find out if there's any > > difference! > > I think it is only on the old 40 horse distributors, the big black ones. > No, it was for all the distributors 40hp and up. especially the FI distributors. -- 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/