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Re: [T3] Ignition Timing Question ...continued with carbs thrown in.


On 10 Apr 2002, at 21:35, Marc Bona wrote:

> So I decide to check my advance again with my timing light (type with
> advance knob) and guess what... 26 degrees BTDC!!!! I pull off the vaccum
> line to the dist. and plug it. Immediatly the idle drops a couple hundred and
> idles silky smooth. Check the timing again, dead on at 7.5 degrees BTDC.
> Something is rotten in the state of New Mexico, folks. I couldn't possibly
> see how at dead stock idle, that this vaccum port should recieve any vaccum
> signal. 

I agree that this doesn't sound right. Are you sure the electric chokes are 
letting the idle drop all the way down? Does any of this change if you 
disconnect both linkage rods?


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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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