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On 5 Jun 2001, at 22:35, jesse and monica wrote: > does anyone have any experience with the pretronix ignition kits? > i put one on my squareback today and it did not work. i had to > remove the sensor from the bracket to make it fit in the > distributor What sensor? > but the install was just how it should be i am sure of that. when i > put the distributor back in i made sure the timing was set to 0 > degrees. If you didn't have any spark, how did you set the timing to 0? > also while doing this i noticed that my aux. air regulator never > totally cuts the air flow off. is this correct? It won't close off completely, but it should close off enough that if you close the hose off with your thumb there won't be any change in the idle speed. That tells you that it is effectively completely closed. > once the car is warmed up. i am having a problem with my idle. i > just won't set down into it's groove. it sort of goes up and down > not a lot just a little. is this normal? again, i am coming from > the watercooled side and i can make my watercooled cars idle smooth > as silk. is this not possible with the old fi aircooled cars? The modern technology is better than that of 30 years ago, but it's hard to judge from here whether your "problem" is normal or unusual. > i have made sure there are not vacuum leaks so i know that is not > the problem. the timing mark is totally still when i shine my > timing light on it, it's not jumping around as it would if there > were vacuum leaks. Vacuum leaks won't make the timing jump around on our cars, so this is not a good test. How much does your idle speed vary? > and finally, when i put my points back in i wanted to measure the > dwell so i set my multimeter to 4cyl dwell setting and i could get > no reading. i hooked the red connector to the negative side of the > coil and the black connector to ground this is right isn't it? Red would usually be + and black would be -. If that still doesn't work, try on the 8 cyl scale (divide the readings by 2.) If that works but the 4cyl setting doesn't, then you have some bad contacts in your dwell meter switch. This happened to me once and I had to open it up and solder all the wire-wrapped connections. Whoever made my Sears/Penske dwell/tach had thought that they could use stranded wire for wire-wrapping! - Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/