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Spark will be less satisfactory with 12 thou points gap. Also timing (firing point) will have changed. I assume you checked the ignition timing - may not have needed any adjustment if everything was back to where it had been when last adjusted. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Constantino Tobio" <ctobio@gmail.com> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 4:12 AM Subject: Re: [T3] Fuel line replacement complete > On today's agenda: Adjusted the valves, seemed largely without incident- > about 40 degrees in my garage, all valves read around .005 except for > #3, which was tighter than that (how tight, don't know, I don't have a > feeler gauge smaller than .005), adjusted all to .006 (it had been a > good 10 years since I've adjusted the valves on an aircooled VW). I did > notice there was a little bit of varnished oil in the valvetrain- to be > expected in an engine with 95k. It was darker on the left head, near the > #3 cylinder. > > I'll be keeping an eye on this #3... > > The other thing is I changed the plugs and points. The points in there > were gapped at much tigher than .016 (like, .012 or something), and I > threw in a new set of points, gapped to .016. Would this affect cold > starting? > > I swapped all 4 plugs and marked which came from where. All 4 plugs look > about the same- electrodes are very dark brown, nearly black, and the > metal at the end of the thread (the part that's in the cylinder) is > shiny black, almost like a glaze.. No signs of wet oil on the > electrodes. I'm not sure how long these plugs have been in there. I'm > leaning towards pronouncing this vehicle as having been running a bit > rich. Thoughts? > > So, I think this car is ready to be started. It's still going to be > absurdly cold tomorrow here in Connecticut, so I'm going to lean towards > doing this next weekend. I may leak test the fuel lines tomorrow. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~