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<x-charset iso-8859-1>It should run with the FI dist... but since the correct distributor is matched to the carb it will probably have flat spots. my guess is the firing order is mixed up. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 75 Opel 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Canadian" <cndnt31@shaw.ca> To: "T3 Mailing List" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:15 PM Subject: [T3] Weird distributor problem > 63 Notch single carb and FI distributor > > I set my valves the other day and I don't know what I did wrong... I've > done it dozens of times before. Everything seemed way off and when I > finshed up did the points and timing the car barely ran and the valves > sounded extremely loose. The next day I reset the valves and timing. This > time the car wouldn't run at all but the valves sounded better. The bnxt > day I tried again but only had to check my valve clearances since they all > came out at .006". Retimed it and still no start. > > OK so I tried a different distributor, the old gutless vacuum advance one I > used to use. I had to switch the plug wires around since it sits on the > engine differently but once I had 1-4-3-2 and timed it to 10 degrees it > fired right up and idled nicely. I swapped the FI diz in again, redid the > wire sequence and timed it. Again the car wouldn't start. No cough, no > sputter. I tried a different condenser at this point but it made no > difference. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks > Andre > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ > > </x-charset>