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On 5 Aug 98, at 13:18, oofacts@earthlink.net wrote: > Jim Adneywrote: > <<The most likely one is that the person > who built your engine was familiar with beetles and installed the > distributor drive gear in the beetle (wrong for type 3) position. >> > > If thats the case and I try to correct the angle, doesn't that mean turning > the whole body of the distributor? Where the condenser is right now, > there's nowhere else for it to go. You don't turn the dist body, just plug the spark plug wires in a different rotational orientation. This is equivalent to a rotation of 90, 180, or 270 degrees. > Either the gen is in the way or else the condenser blocks that little hole > in front of the fan. As I said, it used to be in the engine that way, but > last summer the car started stalling > in the heat. I took it to my mechanic at the time (a VW nut) and he noticed > the cond. blocking this little hole. He gave the distrib a slight turn to > clear the passage and eveything ran fine since then. Of course, at the time > I didn't know anything about VWs, otherwise I would have interrogated him > about the consequences of what he did... > The point is, how can I correct the angle with this damn condenser on the > left side? Every distributor illus. in Bentley shows the condenser on the > right of the breaker plate. Not sure what you are referring to here. All the condensors are mounted on the outside of the dist. Up thru 71 they mounted just to the left of the point where the green wire exits the dist, but for 72- 3 there is a different condenser that mounts off one of the vac adv screws just a bit furthur to the left. The two styles can be interchanged because the actual capacitances are the same. Your reference to a "little hole" is confusing. Where was this little hole, how little is little? Rotating the distributor slightly changes the ignition timing and this must not be doen capriciously. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/