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On 7 Jun 2004 at 23:49, Parker-Durost wrote: > >Clamp the drive dog teeth downward into the top of a vise, with the > LONG/WIDE > >space away from you. Place the distributor, with all the > spacers/washers in > >place, in from above. Turn the dist shaft until the notch in the top (the > >indexing notch for the rotor) is facing away from you and slightly to the > >right. > > This is what Elfrink shows too. But my 311 905 205G shaft/dog won't, > it's 90 deg. off. If I do as above, the rotor slot faces toward me and > to the right. We'll see what happens when I install it. If the vac. > can fits and it runs, I'll figure out a way to make sure #3 is retarded > 3 deg. Interesting. All my experience is with later (FI) dists. Is it possible that early engines put the # 1 dist output connection in a different position? If so, I would expect them to rotate it CCW rather than CW (which you've described above.) The type 3 engines I'm familiar with put the # 1 turret at the LR of the dist when in the car. If you rotated things 90 deg CCW this would make sense, as long as the vacuum can would still fit. Otherwise, I wonder if it is possible that someone switched your shaft with that from a beetle. I don't even know if beetle shafts are different, but it seems like possibility. I've got parts breakdowns for Bosch dists here, and when I went to check shaft parts I find that Bosch did not even make the shafts available as spares. Upper shafts are shown for dists which have mechanical advance, but there are no lower shafts or one-piece shafts. They're not even shown on the exploded views. Odd, I never noticed this before. The only other part they don't show is the dist body itself, which is understandable. I'll have to look tonight to see if VW ever supplied the shafts as spares. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org