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Fellow Cult Members, er...I mean Volkswagen enthusiasts, Tell me if this kosher: My car broke down on the road yesterday, with help from very kind strangers I got it pushed home, and cursed at my car some. When I got around to looking at it, my freind said to check the obvious first. So I checked the points gap...Bingo! Reset the gap and it fires right up. Later that night I get in the car to go to a party, and it won't start. I go back and look, and the gap is too small again. Turns out a little metal peice (the haynes manual doesn't give a name) broke off, and the plate that holds the contact points moves up and down. Since I didn't how to fix it, I got a distributor off of my friends dune buggy (we are going to overhaul the engine on the dune buggy anyway), and poppped it in(after reseting the timing of course) and it worked fine. It is neither vacuum advance nor a 009, like the original. Will this cause problems? Does an auto-tranny need a vacuum advance distributor? Where are the numbers to verify what type a distributor is? (It's a Bosch) The peice wich broke, did screw out, so I'm guessing I can get a new peice, but I don't know the name of it. It looked like a half peanut shell, and held one(or two?) ball bearings in it. When it broke, it allowed the cover plate(is that the right term?) to move around, thus changing the gap. Any and all insight or answers are welcome. Thanks, Ben Lowry