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• NON-DELIVERY of: Re: Desperately seeking mechanical...
  Historical mailing list - Lotus Mail Exchange
  Thu, 2 Mar 95 13:59 EST
  ...advance? Thanks in Advance. Whoops, sorry about the empty post... I replaced my dual-diaphragm vacuum advance distributor in my 73 with an all...
• Re: vacuum advance/retard control unit
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Tue, 3 Oct 2000 07:31:53 CDT
  ...He said that if I >disconnect the vacuum hose from the throttle valve that runs to the vacuum >unit on the distributor, and suck...
• Distributors revisited
  Historical mailing list - Jon Ulrigg (Rho)
  Tue, 8 Nov 94 13:55:33 PST
  Hi All, So I managed to locate a vacuum advance distributor for my '70 bus. Now I have another question. I have a Solex...
• Has anyone tried Pertonix Points? What do you think of them?
  Historical mailing list - 1980 VW Westfalia \"Pokey\"
  Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:34:33 -0400
  ...I understand that they only work with vacuum advance distributors and are not for use with van's originally equipped with Electronic Ignition. Were...
• Re: 2.0 distributor
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Thu, 5 Jun 2003 08:01:01 -0700
  ...distributor and I just replaced my Solex carb with a Weber DFEV and both carbs have the "vacuum nipple" on the carb. The vacuum...
• Instructions on lubricating distributor on '84 1.9L engine
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:53:58 -0400
  ...What is procedure and lubricant to be used on vacuum advance mechanism? John
• Looking for parts
  Historical mailing list - Gilles Turmel
  Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:46:52 -0400
  Hi, I'm looking for the purple vacuum line and restrictor that connect to the distributor advance mechanism and to the charcoal canister valve...
• RE: loss of power on hills
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:15:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Specifically, the centrifugal-advance mechanism. Most (Type-1) distributors had two advance mechanisms operating together: a vacuum advance that retarded the spark when you...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 20 Apr 2001 - Special issue (#2001-478)
  Historical mailing list - Damian Shaw
  Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:10:20 -0600
  ...In the case of your Digijet Vanagon you have a vacuum advance (and centrifical?) that advances the timing based on the intake's vacuum...
• Re: Timing theory
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:28:09 -0400
  ...My 84 has a vacuum advance built into the >distributor, does the digifant (I guess I could look in the bentley). No, it gives...
• Desperately seeking mechanical Vac-Advance
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 28 Feb 95 13:01:30 EST
  Has anyone changed their Vacuum Advance on the Distributor to a mechanical one as St. Muir suggests? If so, where can I procure one...
• Re: Vacuum Line Routing
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Sat, 19 Feb 2000 13:21:28 -0800
  ...Left side of distributor vacuum canister to attachment at rear of throttle body Ride side of distributor vacuum canister to attachment at front of...
• Re: Has anyone tried Pertonix Points? What do you think of them?
  Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
  Sat, 14 Oct 2000 09:45:58 -0500
  ...I understand that > they only work with vacuum advance distributors and are not for use > with van's originally equipped with Electronic Ignition. Were...
• Re: Visual Difference(s) between 1.9L & 2.1L Distributors?
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Sun, 5 Jun 2016 00:06:47 -0600
  ...The 1.9 distributor for the Digifant has both a vacuum and mechanical advance mechanisms. The 2.1 Digijet is fixed as the timing...
• WTB: Bosch Distributor
  Historical mailing list - John M Rossi
  Sat, 8 May 1999 15:29:51 -0500
  I'm looking for the stock distributor for my '81 California Vanagon. It is a vacuum advance Bosch 0 237 022 009. This was...
• Re: pertronix---'80 2.0--anyone installed one?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:05:46 -0400
  ...The 1847V is for vacuum advance distributors, while the A is for centrifigal advance distributors (i.e. 009). We do carry both. The price...
• Re: IginitionTiming, 87' Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - John Hung
  Wed, 27 Aug 1997 15:32:39 -0500
  ...hook up a vacuum >meter/gauge to any main vacuum lines and turn the distributor until you >get the highest vacuum reading. Now you...
• Need distributor for 2 liter ac motor vacuum advance
  Historical mailing list - puzerewski
  Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:17:47 -0400
  Volks, I need the stock dizzy for an acvw with fuel injection...any one have one on the shelf, reasonable? I will paypal. Adam...
• Looking for a restrictor
  Historical mailing list - Gilles Turmel
  Wed, 7 May 2008 08:37:14 -0400
  Hi, I'm looking for the restrictor that goes in the vacuum line between the charcoal canister valve and the distributor advance mechanism. I...
• Re: Wasserboxer Distributor into A/C 2.0
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:08:52 -0700
  ...This distributor has both vacuum advance and retard, but you can leave the retard off should you so choose, but be aware that there...
• Re: Digifant timing/tuning help needed
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Thu, 27 May 2010 23:15:21 -0400
  ...There is no vacuum can on my distributor. The mechanical advance distributor is used with the 83-85 digijet setup. Greg On 5/27...
• Distributor Numbers & Questions
  Historical mailing list - Joseph F. Fournier II
  Sat, 6 Jan 1996 13:33:24 -0600 (CST)
  I have two Vacuum advance distributors, but they look a little different. My Bentley doesn't identify either of these on it's sparc...
• Re: Vacuum hose slipping off fitting
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 6 Oct 2014 11:08:58 -0500
  ...Looking for a 83-85 distributor > > > Excuse the unknowing question and possible thread jack but how do you check > the vacuum advance? I have...
• '80 aircooled power loss cont
  Historical mailing list - Jamie Foust
  Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:36:19 -0500
  ...Distributor is single vac advance. Last night, I replaced fuel injector seals - large and small replaced intake manifold boots - 4 checked vacuum can on...
• Re: Need 050 dizzy
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:06:44 -0500
  ...References to a vacuum advance 050 distributor would seem to confirm that, as the currently available "050" is mechanical advance. I have found the...
• Re: Vacuum System Parts on 1.9 - "Y's" and Constrictors...
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:09:48 -0700
  I don't have a Bentley handy, but if I recall, isn't that restrictor pre vacuum advance on distributor? If so, does it...
• Re: 1.9 Digifant with poor milage and low top-end power.
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:18:10 -0500
  ...to check the full advance setting as the distributor is the later model digifant so there's no vacuum advance on it. I know...
• Re: '81 Vanagon Ignition Weirdness
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Thu, 07 Sep 1995 09:25:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...the vacuum advance membrane for >leakage, if this leaks it would allow the fuel mixture >from the manifold to come into the distributor, you...
• 1.9l Timing Setting?
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:31:45 -0500
  ...Unlike the 2.1l, the 1.9l distributor has both vacuum advance and retard built in. What's everyone setting their timing at? (Digijets...
• Re: Distributor part question
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:49:50 -0800
  ...The 035 998 065 Hall Sender is for '85 & older Vanagons with vacuum advance. The '86 & later Vanagons do not have vacuum advance, it...
• Re: Vacuum Advance/retard Dist. connections?
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Fri, 5 May 2000 09:33:18 -0400
  ...Vacuum Advance/retard Dist. connections? I have been told that I have a Vacuum advance/retard distributor on my engine which was used on...
• Re: Vacuum
  Historical mailing list - Robert Ueltzen
  Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:16:30 -0800
  Air-cooled and Digijet engines had vacuum-advanced distributors. The fuel pressure regulator is also vacuum controlled. The source for these devices are the...
• Re: advance mechanisms on digijet distributor?
  Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
  Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:49:32 -0700
  ...vacuum ports. I've never been 100% comfortable with this change. Also, is the side of vac canister closer to the distributor the advance...
• Re: Bosch distributor #
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 23 Mar 96 18:53 CST
  ...Can >someone give me the Bosch number of the vacuum advance type distributor. A >friend can order the part wholesale but doesn't know...
• Need a vac. adv. dist.
  Historical mailing list - Aaron J. Wood
  Tue, 9 Apr 1996 20:53:55 +0000
  To the List Does anyone have a spare vacuum advance distributor for a 1.7 liter engine? I will be willing to swap a...
• Timing the watercooled?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Maurer
  Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:16:47 +0000
  ...I found no vacuum at the rear throttle housing fitting for vacuum retard. Bentley shows (page 24-24a-b), on the later version, distributor...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 16 Apr 2010 - Special issue (#2010-348)
  Historical mailing list - Todd
  Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:55:27 -0700
  ...be due to the distributor itself in a 2.1 . i.e. there's no centrifugal advance, no vacuum advance or retard, etc. I...
• Too much timing advance
  Historical mailing list - Anthony L. Mourkas
  Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:12:33 -0400
  ...into the above is that my vacuum advance is functioning okay, but the distributor's centrifugal advance curve is way out of whack, advancing...
• Timing theory
  Historical mailing list - Blake Thornton
  Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:39:30 -0600
  ...And, how about advances. My 84 has a vacuum advance built into the distributor, does the digifant (I guess I could look in the...
• Re: 009 Distributor in Type IV
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Grove
  Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:46:29 -0700
  ...the reason you have a vacuum advance on the standard one is to help this problem. 009's are best left as either performance...
• 81 Vanagon Type 4 Motor Timing
  Historical mailing list - Geoffrey Toye
  Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:47:07 -0400
  ...The problem is that I cannot advance the timing because the vacuum can on the SVDA distributor is up tight against the cold start...
• Re: Replacing the vacuum advance unit
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:56:13 -0700
  ...Replacing the vacuum advance unit > How hard is it to replace the vacuum advance in a distributer unit for a > 1.9? I have...
• Re: Mystery module. what the heck is it? '72
  Historical mailing list - William A. McKinley
  18 Sep 96 12:23:30 EDT
  ...It's a vacuum advance cutoff switch. If you don't have the stock carbs and distributor, it's useless. As with all emissions...
• Re: Visual Difference(s) between 1.9L & 2.1L Distributors?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 5 Jun 2016 02:09:36 -0400
  ...The 1.9 distributor for the Digifant has both a vacuum and mechanical advance mechanisms. The 2.1 Digijet is fixed as the timing...
• Re: '80 aircooled power loss cont
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:47:04 -0400
  ...scale). >Distributor is single vac advance. > >Last night, I replaced fuel injector seals - large and small >replaced intake manifold boots - 4 >checked vacuum can...
• Re: Truoble Tuning Mixed up engine! (long)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Apr 1994 14:43:59 -0400
  ...a given carb without the 'correct' distributor. basically the carb has to provide the right advance/retard vacuum for the appropriate load - you cant...
• Re: '84 Van Down
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Tue, 13 Apr 1999 06:41:58 -0400
  ...I am suspecting the vacuum advance. Can one replace the vacuum advance w/o removing the distributor? John ----- Original Message ----- From: <kdlewis@juno.com...
• Vacuum Retard
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 6 May 2002 11:05:33 -0400
  ...I was wondering if I would be better of disabling the vacuum retard built into the distributor and working from there. Without the vacuum...
• Re: timing does not advance
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:33:56 -0700
  ...distributor and its vacuum connections. You should be able to connect a vacuum hose to the dist. and suck by mouth to obtain advance...
• Re: Distributor Question?
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Mon, 3 Oct 2016 16:41:14 -0400
  The 1.9l and 2.1l distributors are different. 1.9l have a vacuum advance retard and an oval plug on the side and...
• Re: Visual Difference(s) between 1.9L & 2.1L Distributors?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 4 Jun 2016 22:37:05 -0700
  1.9 will have a vacuum advance. On Saturday, June 4, 2016, Cary Chiang <ccchiang1@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings: > What are the visual clues...
• Re: no power in 4th
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 6 Oct 1995 10:05:56 -0700 (PDT)
  ...19-5. (Schematic...showing a vacuum line coming from the right hand side of the vacuum advance housing on the distributor, to the two...
• Stock distributer #
  Historical mailing list - William A. McKinley
  20 Aug 96 00:54:30 EDT
  ...Anybody know the stock distributor number for a '72 Westy? I know it's a dual vacuum (advance and retarded) and reads something like...
• Re: Unleaded Regular or Unleaded Premium?
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:17:33 -0800
  ...Thanks for the very informative post, David. -Dana- David Marshall wrote: ... > all done using a 1982 Rabbit Distributor with vacuum advance and vacuum > retard...
• RE: loss of power on hills
  Historical mailing list - H. Steven Dolan
  Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:52:21 -0400 (EDT)
  ...the first place I'd look > would be the distributor. Specifically, the centrifugal-advance > mechanism. > I been staying out of this thread for lack...
• rebuilding old distributors
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 3 Mar 1995 00:23:02 -0500
  ...Compared to the old, stock, vacuum advance distributors, the 009 really "screams." Maybe this is because the old distributors are worn out, right? Has...
• Re: Digifant timing/tuning help needed
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 28 May 2010 11:08:37 -0700
  ...The distributor has mechanical > (centrifugal), > advance, and vacuum advance and retard. > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On...
• Re: Looking for parts
  Historical mailing list - miguel pacheco
  Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:40:33 -0600
  ...Hi, > I'm looking for the purple vacuum line and restrictor that connect to > the distributor advance mechanism and to the charcoal canister valve...
• Re: 1.9 engine HELP!!!
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:56:05 -0500
  ...Does any one think it could be the > distributor? like the vacuum advance or something? > > > Danny C. > '84 Westy (Vanny) > '90 Jeep Cherokee 4x4
• Re: Digifant timing/tuning help needed
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 28 May 2010 05:45:41 -0400
  ...There is no vacuum can on my distributor. The mechanical advance distributor is used with the 83-85 digijet setup. Greg On 5/27...