[T3] Dwell Meter Stalls Engine

[Jim Adney]

On 22 Feb 2012 at 9:29, Tony Rongey wrote:

> OK. So I just put in a newly rebuilt distributor.  After much fiddly around I 
> got it to a point where the car will start and stay running.  The problem is 
> that when I hook up the dwell meter (red on -coil, black to ground) it kills the 
> engine.  If I switch it to TACH mode it reads the RPM, but the engine slows way 
> down.  As soon as I go to DWELL mode again it will stall.  What's going on?

I suspect there's something wrong with your dwell meter, or maybe 
there's something about your dwell meter that just doesn't work well 
with the VW system. I've seen this happen with some dwell meters, and 
my own meter happens to cause an engine to stumble when switching 
modes, but it works fine otherwise.
 
Did this happen with your old distributor also? I hope so, because I 
can't imagine any way that the distributor I rebuilt for you would 
work any differently, in this way, from your old one.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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