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<x-charset iso-8859-1>A faulty condenser is one thing that causes the points to burn. Replace the condenser with a good one. By the way, if your points are lasting 15k miles without depositing metal on one or the other contact, the condenser is GOOD-don't replace it. Some new condensers are worse than the old ones. Thomas E. Potter Technical Specialist II Telephone: (713) 215-2877 Fax: (713) 215-2551 E-mail: tom.e.potter@williams.com -----Original Message----- From: Micah [mailto:micahra@adelphia.net] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 1:13 PM To: type3@vwtype3.org Subject: [T3] a good old-fashioned mystery problem. Here's a good one for ya... My 68 Square, FI, started doing something wierd.. during a drive from LAX to my house (25 miles) 4 weeks ago, as I was driving up the hill into the valley, (fairly good grade) Betty (my car) started to miss a little. As we got closer to home, it got a bit worse, but not too bad, we got home, I was thinking it may have had to do with the car being unused that week, in the lot, as we were in Canada. My boyfriend drove it to work and back (8 miles each way) without further incident for the next week and a half. THan, I took Betty for a longer drive to pick up a friend, about 14 miles away from home. She started missing again, got worse, and ran like crap the whole way home, missing on accel and maintainance speed, but fine at idle. THe next day, I picked up new rotor, cap, and points, as I hadn't replaced them in a year 1/2 and figured it was likely the problem. The old points were so burnt that a hole had been burned strait through the larger contact! eek! So, I put in the new points and all was well, performance much better. end of story, right? NO! Yesterday I drove the 60 miles south to visit my mom, and Betty started lightly hesitating about 35 miles in. Now, traffic was typically crap on the way down the 5 , a normally 50 minute drive took almost 2 hours, so Betty was likely pretty warmm.. however, I am pretty annoyed at this point. On the way back home, at 11pm, traffic was light, the weather was cool, and Betty started fine, drove 25 miles until she started to miss, and by the time I hit mile 45, she was downright obstinate. I hit traffic, stop and go, she didn't want to accelerate for anything. finally made it home with a bucking bronco for a car. I just took out the 1 1/2 week points out of the car, and they are already scored on both contacts.... Condenser? the condenser is only 1 1/2 years old... any thoughts????? ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>