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Replied to the list because of general interest: On 2 May 99, at 20:10, Jacob Schroeder wrote: > >Are you doing this with the vacuum hoses off? They should be off on a > >72. Is your mech. advance working? I.E. do the two dist shafts rotate > >freely with respect to each other and spring back to the stop when > >you release them? > > Could you give me a little more information about testing the mech. advance, Remove the dist cap and grab the rotor. Twist it CW and you should feel it move against a spring; release it and it should return positively. > >There were different shafts and different mech. adv. springs with > >different spring rates. > First, i am referring to the distributor drive shaft that engages with the > crank. Okay, in that case I think there are only 2 different ones: the one used in type 1s, (early) 2s, and 3s, and the one used in the type 4 engine. I don't think the type 4 drive shaft will even fit, so you don't have a problem here. > If that doesn't, would there be anything wrong with setting the dist. drive > shaft one tooth clockwise from 60 degrees so i could get the timing to 5 > BTDC? No, that might be what you need. I have found that the pictures in the books are not quite right, but you will find that 1 tooth is a big change and may be too much. Do you have the plug wires connected to the right places? Did you know that the upper edge of the dist housing is marked with a scribe line at the position where #1 is supposed to go. If you have rotatedÇò q es one position, you might be just trying to undo that error. > Someone around here suggested that i could have the crank and the cam not > timed right, you know with the dots i must line up. But then again, someone > else here said i wouldn't even get it to run if that happened. I've never done it, but I think it would run. I have gone back several times to make sure that I had done that correctly. It has never been wrong, but I understand what's eatin' you. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe