Re: [T3] What a car!

[Russell Wolfe <russella@netins.net>]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Tony Adams wrote:
> My car still idles strangely.  I can set the idle to
> 850 - 950 rpm, and it will idle there for about thirty seconds before it staggers
> like its gonna die.  If I stab the gas it will keep running and return to idle, only
> to repeat the cycle.  I don't have this problem if I set the idle over 1200 rpm, but
> who wants to do that?  Any ideas?  

Check the centrifugal advance. If it is hanging up, and you set the
timing/idle, the timing could be changing. Put a timing light on it, and see if
it changes about the time the engine starts to die.

>Fun to pass dozens of shiny new cars in a thirty year old faded VW.

I do that every morning on the way to work. Especially when the car is covered
with a 1/4" of road dust. :=)

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Russ Wolfe
http://www.classicvw.org

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