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63 Notch, single carb 1500 A week or so ago I thought it was time to do the valve clearances and timing again because the car had started to mysteriously die in the middle of a nice smooth idle. It would restart without problem and otherwise was running fine. After setting the clearances, points and timing the car wouldn't start. I wasn't overly surprised because this has happened to me before. It really seems as though whenever I do this the car won't start. Days of trying to figure it out taught me little trick - try a different distributor. Over the last couple of years I have been driving the car daily and switching back and forth between two FI distributors. For whatever reason it seems that when the car won't run after a tune-up changing the distributor and retiming it makes it work again. OK so this time changing the distributor didn't work. I tried some other units I had and couldn't make anything happen. The following day I got the car to run again using the original diz that I was running. It had a real power lag in a higher part of the RPM range but idled nicely. Yesterday I tried my other FI dizzy and the car ran and accelerated well again. The only problem was that now it was super rough when idling. I cleaned and relubed the advance weights in the first diz then tried it again. Finally my car was back to normal. It idled smoothly and accelerated well. Today I was happily driving and was waiting to turn left onto a side street. A break in traffic came so I made my move and my tires spun a bit on the wet pavement. The rear end jumped up and down a bit like it always does whenever the tires spin (rarely, by the way.) I got across fine but instantly my car bogged down. It would idle and start to accelerate but quickly reached a point where giving it more gas made the rpms nose dive. If I tried to get past this point it would buck and snort and jerk around like a rodeo bull. I drove home at something like 10 kph and barely made it up the hill to my house. I looked at the distributor and nothing looked out of place. After awhile I tried the other distributor and got nothing. Now I've got no spark at all. There is power to the coil and I've tried swapping in a new 6v coil I just bought (it's a Hitachi, I am so embarrassed) but no spark to the plugs. Does this sound at all familiar to anyone out there? I swear that my car is possessed. This is supposed to be simple, isn't that why we drive old VWS? All suggestions are appreciated! Andre ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~