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<x-charset iso-8859-1>On Sunday 04 November 2001 19:37, Keith Park wrote: > First off... you cant just set things anywhere they happen to fall and > expect things to be right. > There are no vacuum only advance distributors, they ALL have centrifugal > advance in them and judging from your mentioning the size of the advance > can you have a 72 distributor. Should you be using this distributor?? what > is your FI setup or carb setup?? use the correct or compatable distributor > with your fuel system. Setting the timing on the 72 dual advance > distributor is a special procedure that Jim Adney has written up... too > much advance on ANY distributor and you have detonation and perhaps piston > breakage, too little and it can run hot or dilute the oil. > > The centrifugal advance did not start in the T-3 until 1968. My '66 does not have a mechanical advance. Or, he could have a T-1 distributor. -- Russ Wolfe '71 Fastback AT '66 Fastback MT (IT RUNS) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org </x-charset>