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Drop in a Compufire or Pertronix electronic points in your VW dizzy and it
becomes maintenance free.
Toby Erkson -- air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
'72 VW Squareback, '95 VW Jetta, '81 Gold Wing, '73 Porsche 914
http://www.icbm.org/
Portland, Oregon
----- Original Message -----
> Sounds like an interesting idea, but the type 3 Bosch distributors are very
> reliable and such a swap really only offers the advantage of being
maintenance
> free (until something goes wrong with the electronic module.)
>
> Just about the only thing, other than points, that your regular distributor
> needs is an occasional drop of oil down the center of the distributor shaft.
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