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Wait till you see how much smoother it is with the correct dizzy! Id rebuild any dizzy I got, its easy or Jim can do it for a very reasonable charge. check the swaps, there are alot of them out there when those 009's evicted them. It will wait till your ready though.. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 75 Opel 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Petri O. Calderon Larjanko" <petri@unsw.edu.au> To: "type3.org" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 8:28 PM Subject: [T3] Revelation 009 dizzy a few paragraphs > Hi all, > > I had a horrible revelation this weekend. I was adjusting the idle on my > carbs and doing a general quick check up (oil, timing, etc). I decided to > check on the dizzy's part number because every since I own the car I have > been baffled at the lack of a vacumm cylinder. The part number included the > digits "009", a few minues ago, while looking at some sites, I realised that > I also have a Bosh 009 blue coil. In over a year of owning a T3, and > hearing about 009s and blue coils (as the parts not to have in your T3), it > never occurred to me to pay attention to what I have in my engine. > > So I regret to say that I have a 009 setup with stock dual solexes. > > Needless to say (when I have time away from an impending birth, renovations, > and work) I will be looking for a t3 specific dizzy. > > Questions: If I go to a pick-n-pull place and I am lucky enough to find a T3 > sitting there, how do I test the dizzy to make sure that it will be a bolt > on purchase rather than a restore-bolt-on purchase? > > -- > Petri > 71 Notch (with an unexpected 009) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > >