RE: [T3] The Distributor

["Latherow, Robert" <RLatherow@EssilorUSA.com>]

I missed a camping date with my teenage sweety over that very problem.
So sad...

Theres a offset tab on the bottom on the disti- I'm sure your seen it.
What probably happened is that you didn't quite get the notch all the
way into its cam in the engine-  you have to turn the roter while
pressing down while everything is loose to get it in there.  You will
thinnk you have it in, then all of a sudden, it goes down another 1/2
inch and all is well.  Mine wasn't quite in and kept slipping out,
eventually leaving me scared to drive it...


Good luck!

-rj

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>From: 	Robert Braun[SMTP:vwsquare@yahoo.com]
>Sent: 	Friday, April 16, 1999 12:02 PM
>To: 	vw mailing list vw
>Subject: 	[T3] The Distributor
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>Put the new injector in.... now runs on all fours... yes... I did say
>ran... but now I have a new prob...
>Thought I go and start up the fasty last night.... to see if she
>started up like she used to....after all this... we'll she didn't ....
>she ran.... and idled... but not like she used to...made me sad.... so
>I though it was the timiing. right?... we'll took the dist cap off...
>and just on a whim I "checked the rotor".... I know that with my
>mechanical advance I can turn the rotor...a little... and it will
>spring back into place... well... I can feel it "stretching"... like
>it's pulling a spring... but I can turn the thing 360 degrees.... and
>back and forth.... now I don't know much about all this... but I know
>this ain't right.... I have recently take it out... did I mess
>somethin up .... it's not like the rotor is dead.. it moves... the car
>runs....if I turn the generator by hand it moves.... what's the deal....
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>Robert
>'69 FI Standard Fasty
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