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Re: [T3] dropped dizzy drive?


on 15/10/2002 7:07 PM, Jacob at sixt7vdub@yahoo.com wrote:

> has anyone ever heard of a distributer drive dropping down before? my
> rotor spins freely like it isn't in the groove. it runs but every once
> and a while it hesitates like it popped of the groove then jumps back
> in.
> anyone know what im talking about?

Take a look at the distributor clamp. The president of the local VW club was
having the same sort of trouble with his car and we traced it back to a bent
clamp. The distributor could be pushed down, then tightened up, but every so
often the clamp would spring back and push the distributor up.

HTH,
Ben Doughney

'75 1200L
'63 1200 - Ringo
'71 1600TL

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