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That "friend" did far more damage by swapping the fuel injection with carbs.
Many like carbs, and that's fine, but we constantly see people tear out a
perfectly good FI system and replace it with carbs...then they have problem
after problem. What's sad is that many FI systems that are removed are then
thrown away, wiring harness hacked, etc. :-(
It sounds like you are the better friend; I hope you can help (and educate!)
your neighbor so they will have many years of fun and trouble-free air-cooled
driving :-)
Toby Erkson -- air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
'72 VW Squareback, '95 VW Jetta, '81 Gold Wing
http://www.icbm.org/
Portland, Oregon
P.S. To help, get a Bentley shop manual or the Idiot's Guide, even a Haynes is
better than nothing and they will REALLY help.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Myer" <cmyer@houston.rr.com>
To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 6:57 AM
Subject: [T3] Timing Type 3 w/ 009 and twin carbs!
> Hello all - I am usually a regular bug guy but my neighbor has a '72
> fastback automatic he needs some help with. The deal is it's the original
> engine as far as we can tell - he has service records for it, and the car
> only has about 70k miles anyway. He got it last year, the FI was having
> problems, a friend of ours put on twin carbs - I don't know exactly which -
> and a 009 dist.
> ...The car was set up and timed "by ear" by said friend.
>
> I have no experience with dual carbs or a centrifugal advance dist. Should
> the timing really be that far BTDC? What is the correct dwell for this
> dist? The car is reliable but runs kind of rough. He's never checked valve
> clearances since buying the car, I made an appointment to go over to his
> place in the next week to do that.
...
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