[T3] Blue Coil

[James Lingenfelter]

  Results of latest test drive: Once again, I let the car idle in the  
driveway about 15 minutes, then drove about 1 mile before problems  
began; but this time the results were totally different than the last  
test drive. THIS time, instead of 2 cylinders suddenly shutting down  
and then returning 10 seconds later, I began to feel a gradual miss  
which slowly developed into violent bucking under throttle; but idle  
remained fine, whereas it wouldn't idle at all last time..... EXACTLY  
as if the car is not getting fuel. Fuel filters are brand new and  
clear; Fuel pump (electric) is nearly new and hasn't shown any signs  
of failure.... but from my experience with fuel pumps, it is still  
suspect.
   I am back at square one. Diagnosis between the pre-coil and post- 
coil drives are 100% different. Unfortunately at this point, I may  
have to dump the car off at a shop and let them isolate it. It's a  
daily driver, and my wife and I are short one vehicle while I  
frantically replace parts and follow various rabbit trails.

On Jan 29, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Keith Park wrote:

> 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
>
>
> Top Notch Restorations
> topnotch at nycap.rr.com
> http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm
> 71 Squareback "Hothe"
> 65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo"
> 65 Squareback "Eggcrate"
> 87 golf "Winterat"
> 93 RX7 "Redstur"
>
>
> -----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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