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Hello everyone, I have some questions and an interesting story to tell you. Firstly, is there a difference between the distributors and vacuum advance units of an automatic compared to a manual shift T3? Mow my story: Some years ago the dizzy on my '69 SQB developed so much play around the shaft that I could no longer set the points gap properly. Consequintly the engine would not idle and the general performance was terrible. As VWSA no longer stocked T3 distributors I was faced with either fixing the broken unit or getting a Bosch 009. Being a relatively poor student at the time, I had to settle for the 009 as it was lots cheaper than fixing the old one. The 009 seemed to work well enough and I even installed a Petronix Ignitor set on it last year. Then yesterday I was wondering what would happen if I put the Ignitor on my old dizzy seeing that it (the Ignitor) can compensate for some wear round the shaft. So I went ahead and swapped the two last night. Top end performance is virtually the same but at the bottom end it has improved greatly. I think the engine feels happier and it has more power to spare when cruising than it used to have. Hope my fuel consumption will come down a bit now!! I will see how it goes from here. BTW the car is 3200 miles away from clocking over for the second time! 200 000 miles - yikes that a lot!!!!! How many miles/kilometres have your cars clocked up? Regards Adriaan Loedolff adriaan@norton.ctech.ac.za '69 Squareback Automatic (pushing 200 000 miles!)