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On 5 Jun 2004 at 11:48, Mark Healey wrote: > In trying to fix my heat related flooding problem I'm going through > the tune up procedure. I knocked a ground wire loose for the ECU. I > have no idea how since I wasn't anywhere near that wire. Anyway I > fixed that. You probably just pulled on the wire harness on the left side of the engine and that pulled on the ground wire. Glad you found it. > Muir says to hook up the meter to the #1 contact on the coil. They're > not labeled!! He say the one going to the distributor. There's two!! > Does he mean the one with the condensor wire? I'm guessing that is > the one since the other one would proably fry the meter. Right, Muir means the wire that runs to the condensor, which will be green if the condensor is a Bosch. If you have a Bosch coil the # 1 will actually be molded into the plastic next to the terminal. > Anyway I do that. I set the swithches on the meter to the appropriate > positions and start the car. It barely moves. I check the book and > it says that if it is too low that the points are too far open. Well > I check it with the feeler guage and they are definately not. SOMETHING is wrong. Perhaps you have a bad connection, perhaps the points are oxidizd so they aren't making contact. Maybe the dwell meter isn't working. Get a voltmeter (often the dwell/tach will do this) and watch the voltage on term # 1. It should be ~12V when the points are open and ~0 V when the points are closed. Verify that is is happening. Try setting the gap with the feeler gauge (make sure it isn't oily, so you don't get oil on the points gap.) If the engine will start and run, and you still don't get a response from the dwell meter, then I'd suspect a problem with the dwell meter. If so, try to find another old car with points that you can test it on. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org