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On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 19:15, The Canadian wrote: > 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. > Are you sure that the distributor cap was right for the rotor/distributor. There are different height caps for different distributors. Caps and rotors go together. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/