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Hi Jim (and all), > It is likely that your 72 (is that right?) is still not timed right. It's > worth buying the Bentley, studying the UNIQUE timing instructions > for the 72, and doing it yourself. Exhausting all my own ideas, I took the car to a local shop...although I thought the engine and all related bits were absolutely the original for the car, they said that after looking up the serial number on the ECU and distributor, that the correct timing is not what is shown on the timing sticker. I'm planning on re-looking up those numbers so I know the correct timing setting for myself. I had a Bentley, but for some strange reason I must've sold it with my old 69 Square. Jim, if you have spare old copies of both books I'd be happy to take them off your hands :-) Name your price. I have a timing light and would consider myself rather skilled at setting timing. My vacuum advance unit is somewhat new and holds vacuum well. The advance unit seems to do what it's supposed to (checked using my timing light) but I'm not sure how to measure that it's making it to the necessary max advance. Probably in Bentley? Now that I think about it, the car seems a bit rougher at speed, possibly suggesting that the advance curve isn't what the car is expecting, or it's not reaching the max advance...I'll check the part number on the vac unit to be sure it's the correct one. As for the injectors, visual inspection reveals that no fuel is leaking from the hoses or injectors. The fuel lines are all new and I removed the crimp-on clamps securing the small segment of hose to the injectors in favor of double hose clamps and 90 PSI hose segments. When I thought they might be leaking, I thought maybe they're dripping into the manifold, to the point that the engine can't fully regulate the fuel intake...the injectors drip into the manifold (not making a good seal when closed), the ECU senses the additional fuel and cuts off the supply, the car almost stalls, the ECU adds more fuel, the leak occurs again...hence, my slight surging problem? -Doug 73 Fastback douglas_brashear@amsinc.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe