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Hi all, Well, my engine seems to be running on 4 cylinders now. I think. At least, cylinder 1, that wasn't working before, is working now. The culprit was the distributor cap. It was still the same one that I got with the car. As I wasn't aware of any problem with it, I didn't change it. Maybe I should have. Anyway, first I removed the seemingly non-functional spark-plug. It was black, so I replaced it. At that point I was confident that I had found the problem, until I started the engine and found it was still running on three. Since I had already tested the plug wire with a VOM metre and found a resistance of 982 ohm (this is about right, right?) I then knew it had to be the cap, so I replaced it and all is well. The car runs much better now but feels like it needs a good tune-up, which I will do on the weekend. It feels like the timing is out, and the carb adjustment. If it has been running on 3 for some considerable time, I suppose this is logical. BTW, apropos the whining noise. It is impossible to go any further with this until I do something about my noisy speedo cable. It's so loud it hides all other sounds. Daniel > Jim Adney wrote: > > On 4 Mar 2004 at 20:06, Daniel Baum wrote: > > > > > >>Last time I had a similar noise, it turned out to be a seized brake cylinder > >>holding the brake shoe against the drum. > > > > > > This is easy to diagnose: It will make the drum hot. Touch it carefully after a > > bit of a drive. > > > > It could also be wheel bearings, which are much harder to get to than the CV joints! > > > > Does the whine track with engine speed or road speed? > > > > Road speed, I think. > > > Daniel > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > > >