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Unless I've got it wrong, Neil was talking about snatching hall-effect distributors and coils from watercooled VWs - or at least the Vanagon, which might be either. As I said, some of the watercooled VWs have ?9V coils and have a resistive wire so they only get 9V in normal use, but for starting they are connected direct so they give out the full ignition spark. The old Bosch red coil does something similar. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hal Sullivan" <tristessa@pon.net> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 5:53 AM Subject: Re: [T3] Elec. Ingnition > At 04:36 PM 8/27/04, Dave Hall wrote: > >Good advice Neil. Just be a bit careful with the OE coils as I believe some of > >them use external ballast in the form of a resistive wire which is by-passed > >during starting. > > ...hmm? I'd used the OE electronic stuff for years in my ex-Bug and am using it > now in my Bus (though not in my T3 .. yet) and never had a problem with coils. > Just a straight piece of wire carrying 12V to terminal 15. I "passed on" the spare > setup from my ex-Bug to a local Bus friend and she *did* have the coil die .. but > it may have just been old age. I'd run that coil daily for three years, but it came > from the junkyard and was who-knows-how old. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Shameless link for search engines: http://listarchive.type3.org ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~