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Re: [T3] Hard cold starts.........


On 7 Mar 99, at 10:00, BeerMake@aol.com wrote:

> I just picked up a 79 square (my first).  Had to replace the 1-2 cyl. head
> already.  I figured that when I did that it would start a bit easier as the
> first cylinder had now compression.  But alas.....it still is a tough bird to
> start.

I assume that is a 73.

Check: Dwell, timing, valve adj, spark plugs and gaps, dist adv 
mechanisms (both vac and mech), fuel pressure (fuel filter)

If any of the following are not Bosch, replace them with Bosch: 
capacitor, dist cap, dist rotor, points. Check Bosch rotor for 5k or 
10k of resistance from center contact to outer contact.

Clean off nose of coil, inside and outside of dist cap. Verify ~1000 
Ohms resistance from dist cap to each spark plug connection. Some SP 
wire sets have a large coil connector that has an additionalJEhS10k Ohms in it, if you have this that wire will measure that, 
otherwise 0.

That's a start.

Jim
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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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