[T3] Addiction

[B Fye]

Thanks Jim.   Tomorrow I will be fitting a distributor that goes with the rest of the 73 FI parts.    We will how much of a difference that makes.

B. Fye

> On Jun 7, 2015, at 8:37 PM, "Jim Adney" <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 6 Jun 2015 at 18:41, B Fye wrote:
>> 
>> Found that my car was running on 3 cylinders.  Fixed that and then
>> went to time the thing... 30 btdc at idle!!!  So, loosen the
>> distributor, spun the thing and timed it at 5btdc w/ hoses unhooked. 
>> Put hoses on and can't get over to 5atdc per specs for this unit.  To
>> top it off, now that I have 4 cylinders, I have smoke out the tail
>> pipe!  Had ZERO prior.   Grrrrr'
> 
> Just a guess, but have you checked the mech adv? My guess is that 
> it's frozen, which would explain everything. This is rather common 
> and something I routinely fix in a dist rebuild.
> 
> Then you have to adjust the throttle so that the retard port is 
> enabled on the IAD. Then the retard should work, assuming it's okay, 
> as you previously reported.
> 
> For '72-3, your timing marks should look like:    |   |   | |
> 
> Meaning 5 ATDC, TDC, 5 BTDC, 7.5 BTDC.
> 
> If your timing marks look like:    |     | | |
> 
> Then this is an earlier pulley (with an earlier engine?) and the 
> marks mean TDC, 7.5 BTDC, 10 BTDC, 12.5 BTDC.
> 
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