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After going over all my hoses and wires on the FI system, many times thinking that something would be wrong thus causing the high idle, hearing about those stupid manifold gaskets got me thinking. So i checked them, and sure enough, they were the kind that i wasn't supposed to use, but were the only ones in my gasket kit, so i went out and got some others from the local guy, but them on it she idles at 850 rpm now, instead of 2400, i feel much better. Now, we have a new problem, it is a '72, so bentley says to time it at 5 BTDC, but i can't turn the distributor enough to the left (counterclockwise) to get it to go that far, even with both dist hoses disconnected. I checked the drive shaft at TDC and it is 60 degrees like the books show. What could be casuing this? Here's where i kind of need a crash course on timing. Were all distributor drive shafts created equal, are they all the same, i have two of them, i don't think Ï(”à e from the same year, because they look a little different, but are they? And also how does VW determine the different timing degrees to set the engines at? You know, some are 7.5 BTDC, while another engine may be 5 ATDC, how do they determine this. Again, sorry for my ignorance Jacob Schroeder '72 Square, FI _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe