[T3] running rich and mystery material

Jim Adney jadney at vwtype3.org
Sat Nov 10 21:24:54 PST 2012


On 9 Nov 2012 at 7:28, Dennis Stiefel wrote:

> Everything in the ignition is new except the coil. The coil I have in
> it is temporary.  When the car was in basket case mode one of the many
> things it was missing was a coil.  I had heard a lot of bad stuff about
> a Bosch blue coil so I'm hunting for an original black one. In the
> meantime it has a coil off a 69 Ford 302 engine it was just something I
> had laying around. 

Didn't the Ford coil require a series resistor? VW Bosch coils don't 
use one; they have a higher resistance primary instead.

Using the Ford coil without a resistor will shorten the life of the 
points and possibly the coil.

I have good used OE Bosch black coils.

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