[T3] Blue Coil

[Keith Park]

Yep, same company that makes the auto trannies too.
The coil and condenser (capacitor) are a matched pair, as is the coil and
the ballast resistor if it has one.  Ill be the stock T3 condensor is not
the match for the Borg warner coil and hence the problem.  The coil itself
is probably fine.

Keith


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-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Mark
Fuhriman
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 1:37 AM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Blue Coil

On Friday, January 28, 2011, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2011 at 18:06, James Lingenfelter wrote:
>
>> OK, I just removed the now notorious "scummy black coil" from the
>> squareback. Some scrubbing on the side revealed it is a "Borg Warner"
>> coil. Don't know much about these, I'm thinking maybe they were OEM on
>> some American cars? Any way, there is a Bosch coil on the car now  and
>> it is running as I write this.
>
> I don't know anything about B-W coils. If I remember, I'll try to ask
> someone tomorrow who might know something about them.
>
> Well, I asked him today, and he never heard of B-W making coils. We
> agreed that they were probably made by someone else and marketed with
> the B-W name and we'd never seen one. Quality unknown....

I have an old Borg Warner coil that I pulled off a junkyard Type 3 a
number of years back.  I keep it around as a spare for my car.

I wonder if this is the same Borg Warner that made radio sets in the
early 1900s.  Anybody know (Keith)?  I have an old B-W radio here that
I want to get working.

Mark
'69 Fastback
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