[T3] 72 FI simplified

[Jim Adney]

On 21 May 2012 at 20:12, Keith Park wrote:

> That makes sense, you don't want anything messing up the static centrifugal
> advance timing so you need to get the vacuum hoses disconnected and then of
> course the idle speed back down via the air adjustment so that the
> centrifugal advance is us fully OFF to set the static timing.

You can pull the vac hoses off if you like, but on the dists with 
mech adv, the vac adv does nothing at idle. You can verify this 
easily with a timing light.  

I know all the books say to pull them off, but that's just 
boilerplate; it's not necessary for most of our cars.

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