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On 23 Jul 2001, at 23:37, rx4mike@ezy.net wrote: > 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. You're right, this is your vacuum advance. It won't do anything while you're testing it in your driveway. The only real test is to suck on it while you watch the inside of the dist and see if the breaker plate moves and stays. It should be sealed; if you just have to keep sucking the diaphram is leaking. At any rate, the engine will run just fine without it, especially at idle. > 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? This is a REAL problem. When you pull off the SP wires is there a spark that jumps those gaps? If so, check for a bunch of white FI ground wires near the center of the engine. Are all those wires connected? Are any of those wires broken? Work carefully with those wires, they are fragile and you can easily do more harm than good with them. If there is no spark there, open up the dist cap and check inside and out for tracks. BTW, there's no reason to send these messages both to me and to the list; that just means that I get to copies of each. - Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org