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Re: [T3] Weird distributor problem


on 6/4/02 2:31 AM, Jim Adney at jadney@vwtype3.org wrote:

> Just look at things carefully. Is there something out of place? Is the end of
> the spring hitting against the side of the dist? Follow the current path and
> find out where this is shorted.
Also, check the rotor to see if it has some resistance, it doesn't really
matter what, as long as it hasn't gone open-circuit. I had a problem like
this on my '63 Beetle, it was working fine one day, and the next morning, it
wouldn't start at all. It ended up the resistor in the rotor had failed.

HTH,
Ben Doughney

'75 1200L
'63 1200 - Ringo

http://members.tripod.com/~superkafer/ 

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