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Man when you put everything in to perspective you can really see that a mistake was made on my part on thinking that I could take this car and assume that I could use it as a daily driver, for even a short time. But I think I have figured out a problem with my car that maybe my main problem. There is a small vaccum module attacted to the distributer. That i think is an Automatic Vaccum Advance but it doesn't appear to be fuctioning. At an idle it doesn't appear to blowing or sucking any air...or at a high rpm doesn't appear to being anything. Also while the car is idling I can remove the spark plug wire ends from the distributer running to the two cyclinders closest to the rear of the car and it doesn't appear to affect the running of the car. I also removed the wiring harness plug from the fuel injection units on the same cylinders and it also doesn't appear to affect the running of the car. At an idle I mean? What does this mean? T3 Guru's please enlighten me with your knowledge. Thanks all Mike >On 23 Jul 2001, at 17:03, PunkDork55@aol.com wrote: > >> ( i guess the lesson here would be, look at the car better before >> buying it!) > >I always look a car over as carefully as I can before buying it, but I >ALWAYS find things that I have overlooked. In 30 years only 2 of >the last 8-10 type 3s I have bought have not needed a new engine >and a complete brake overhaul. Then add in 10-20 hours of just >working little things over to get them right again. > >A friend of mine once advised that when buying used cars he >always budgeted as much money for repairs as he spent on the >car. With cars this old, we should expect to pay even more for post >purchase repairs. > >You just can't buy a car this old and expect it to be a daily driver >right off. After all, there was a reason the other guy was selling it. > >- >******************************* >Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org >Madison, Wisconsin, USA >******************************* > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ > > >