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on 11/6/2003 12:56 PM, Russ wolfe at russella@prairieinet.net wrote: > Have you ever had your ears burn???? It was a VW mechanic cussing you > when he finds THAT distributor after fighting it for a couple hours. I confused myself with that once, I had one engine where the drive gear was in backwards, turned the dog on the bottom of the distributor around. It worked fine, but then I installed another engine in the same car, and used that distributor. It took about an hour of head scratching before I remembered what I had done. ;-) > Use the snap ring pliers to grab the gear, and slightly rotate it > as you pull it up, and don't pull it all the way out of the case. Get it > to the position you want it in, and slowly lower it back into the case. So by doing it this way, the gear doesn't come up high enough to let the washers drop down? I have the same problem on my '65, so far I just have the wires installed 180û out, and don't have any problems with the vacuum can getting in the way, but I would like to make it right, I have just been very nervous about taking the drive gear out. Do you have any tricks for getting the fuel pump insulator block off when it is stuck hard? Ben Doughney '75 1200L '63 1200 - Ringo '71 1600TL '65 1500N - Val http://members.tripod.com/~superkafer/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org