Re: [T3] Distributor In, can get it to run.

[Greg Merritt <gregm@vwtype3.org>]

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Mark Healey wrote:

> At this point I decided to follow the muir procedures and checked the
> dwell.  It was off so I got the feeler guage and ajusted it.  Then it
> wouldn't start.  Went in ajusted it again and it started but it was

	You didn't write that you re-adjusted the timing after adjusting
the dwell (point gap).  Changing the dwell will *always* change the
timing.  Any time you adjust the points, the timing setting must follow.


> The guy who helped me get it started last time messed with the
> manifold pressure sensor to ajust the mixture.  Could this be the
> problem?

	It's usually Bad News to touch the manifold pressure sensor.  It
would be a very rare case indeed where this factory-set piece requires
adjustment.  Even then it should be done with everything else
well-adjusted and with an oxygen sensor in the tail pipe to measure the
mixture.  This isn't a part to tune by ear or by feel.

-Greg


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