[T3] Mysterious squareback condition.... need suggestions.

[James Lingenfelter]

 From talking to the local VW mechanics, original black Bosch coils  
are hard to find; I am told most of the "black" coils seen on VW's  
now are Empi or some other cheap no-good coil. Truly, in all my years  
of being an air-cooled VW fanatic, I have rarely seen a car that  
didn't already have a "blue" coil in it. Keep in mind I am not in an  
area with any "barn find" VW's..... Any aircooled VW you come across  
here is likely to have 500,000 miles and 3 engine rebuilds under it's  
belt, and typically has NO original mechanical parts.
   I've been doing some further research this morning, and determined  
that if I get a new coil, I need to get the Bosch blue coil made in  
either Spain or Brazil, that has the internal resistor. Apparently  
there are various grades of Bosch blue coils, some of them being no  
good. Never knew.

On Jan 27, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Russ W wrote:

> On 1/27/2011 11:14 AM, James Lingenfelter wrote:
>> So if my problem IS the coil, what type of new coil should I get?  
>> I'm off work today, so I was thinking about going out and picking  
>> up a new coil this afternoon. In my ignorance, I just assumed all  
>> the Bosch coils were blue now, since every other coil I've ever  
>> had on my VW's were blue.
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:30 AM, Dave Hall wrote:
>>
> Go to your local "VW mechanic", and ask him if he has any of those  
> scummy black coils that you could borrow to see if that fixes the  
> problem.
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Russ Wolfe
> russw at classicvw.org
>
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