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On 27 Dec 2001, at 19:21, dubdriver wrote: > My understanding is that the lobe is ground offset (the reason the > drive only fits the shaft one way too). The dist cap has nothing to > do with it. I'll set up a degree wheel and a dial indicator and find > out. Right. Someone who has access to a distributor machine could tell this quickly. > I'm certain that plenty of people have already done this though. It's > been pretty common knowledge that VW did this for years. I think I read something in Berg's writing that said they checked a bunch of dists and couldn't find a single one with the famous retarded #3 cylinder. It certainly seems that there must be SOMETHING to this myth, but it might end up being nothing more than that. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org