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On 25 Apr 2005 at 17:19, BOB2TYPE3S@aol.com wrote: > On my Notch, I found that I needed to check the point gap a little more > often than once every 5 years though. :D Mine had opened up a little, and > was causing a slight rough engine idle. I guess I should check the wife's > car one of these days. :D On the way to Parma I nearly had heart failure when my 69 started losing power. I thought there was something seriously wrong and checked everything else first. Then I checked the dwell and found it way off. That was a new set of points that had just worn in to match the cam. Once we adjusted it, the car was fine thereafter. > Last year I did have a German Bosch blue coil start to fail, but it was over > 15 years old, and it does still work, but it has a miss in the mid range with a > load. I found it by swapping everything out the day before I left for the > 2004 Invasion. After I found it, I put the car back as it was, and put on a black > t-3 coil (I had laying on the shelf) to get me around. It's still in place, > and I loaned my blue coil to my neighbor, until he finds a coil to use in his > t-3. I have good used OE black and old used German Bosch blue coils here if anyone needs one. The ones I actually recommend are just the OE black ones. You can certainly spend more money, but I don't think you will ever find anything that works better. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~