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<x-charset iso-8859-1>On Thursday 27 December 2001 18:45, Steven Ayres wrote: > Ralph=> Somebody once told me that an 009 was > => retarded a bit on the left bank to > => keep those cylinders cooler under the oil cooler. > => Fact or just hype? > > You can check for yourself -- the #3 lug in the cap would have to be > offset. It's not. Dwell would also be different for that cylinder. I got no > idea how people come up with ideas like this. > #3 is retarded on a stock factory distributor. Check it yourself. Set the timing on #1 timing light. Then switch your pickup lead to #3. It WILL be different. They did it to help with cooling on the emission control equiped cars. This didn't start until about 1968 MY. -- Russ Wolfe '71 Fastback AT '66 Fastback MT (IT RUNS) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe </x-charset>