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Re: [T3] Engine Timing?


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> > So the tally so far is 72 car, 71 block, 70 dist, with vac advance only, 
>73
> > brain, and still unknown year (remanufactured) pressure sensor it does 
>not
> > have a black cap on it though. I need to double check, and possibly 
>re-set
> > the throttle switch.
>
>It's looking pretty mixed up. If the pressure sensor does not match the 
>brain
>that makes it hard to know what you should expect.
>
>I guess one question we haven't asked is whether this car ever ran any
>better, with this set of components. If it did, then something has changed. 
>If
>it didn't, then the mis-matched parts MIGHT be to blame.

Heh even that's going to be difficult to answer. I bought the car...my wife 
drove it a couple of times, perhaps three, then it blew a plug right out of 
the head. I took the motor out, and inspected everything, and decided to put 
in a new long block, as the motor looked pretty tired. With the exception of 
the heads which were fairly new...someone must have really overtightened a 
plug.

The original motor didnt sounds bad, and it ran ok...was leaking oil from 
about everywhere though. Unfortunately I dont have the details on what the 
idle was...what the timing was, etc on the original motor. It could have run 
exactly as it does now.

The other part of the problem is that this is my first type 3 ever, much 
less one with FI...so I have absolutely 0 experience with how this motor 
should sound/run.

If I dont get anything back from python on the remanufactured pressure 
sensor, I will likely yank mine out to see if there are any VW part numbers 
on the outside anywhere.

Drake
72 square FI
and now a 63 bug too that I a picking up today...its actually rust free...in 
the true definition, the the definition that everyone seems to use when they 
are selling an old VW where rust free=no holes bigger than a softball ;)

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