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• TIICo timing issues
  Historical mailing list - Spooner, Robert E.
  Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:06:29 -0400
  ...Should I retard the timing beyond spec? Will rotating the distributor do anything with the electronic timing control? Or should I just go with...
• Re: Getting a Handle on the Handling of the Vanagon >>source
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:03:00 -0700
  This is comparable to the Addco price from a distributor. Call Addco to find one near you, www.addco.net Note: The addco bars...
• On 2.1L is TDC the U groove on pulley?
  Historical mailing list - Tim Marciniak
  Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:07:50 -0500
  ...with temp II disconnect but in the engine section under Ignition distributor installing, page 13.39 the white arrow in the picture is pointing...
• Re: Hall Sender replacement on a Digifant/2.1L engine
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:20:13 -0500
  ...86 crapped out and left me stranded I substituted an ancient distributor (from a Ghia or Type II bus) that was laying around the...
• Re: engine swap source: TDI
  Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
  Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:53:39 -0600
  ...Therefore if you can find a distributor that sells these generators, I don't know the brand as I have not researched as of...
• RE: VANAGON digest 1087
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Bibler
  Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:22:35 -0400
  ...When I arrived home, I changed the spark = plugs, distributor rotor and cap. The problem went away for about 10,000 = miles.=20 The...
• Re: burned Bosch rotors and tune-up question
  Historical mailing list - Don Deitke
  Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:17:17 EST
  Back in the 70,s we found may distributors with the center bushings becoming oblong. To check pull the dist. out , with the rotor...
• Re: Vanagon MPG
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 6 Jun 2009 00:00:34 -0400
  ...I checked my engine out and found the distributor was loose and had turned an 1/8" or so. I knew this because when...
• RE: Stinky Remarks (was seats)
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:07:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Next time I leave the rotor out of the distributor after a tune-up, hope y'all don't mind if I continue to...
• Weber carb jetting
  Historical mailing list - Aaron J. Wood
  Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:54:18 +0000
  ...When the timing is set correctly for the 009 distributor(7.5 degrees BTDC), I cant get the idle speed to come below 1500rpm...
• Re: Too much timing advance
  Historical mailing list - t bill
  Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:29:39 -0700
  ...Ouch! Gulp! Just goes to show ya what can happen as our distributors age. Mine doesn't advance enough, so I set it a...
• FS: some new parts at great prices
  Historical mailing list - karl
  Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:50:58 -0400
  ...I am not a parts distributor, these are just items I have too many of on the shelf. Karl M.
• Interesting Subaru Vanagon For Sale, Austin TX
  Historical mailing list - Cary Chiang
  Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:03:20 +0200
  ...What was interesting was a custom-made intake manifold with a Holley carb., and a Ford Escort(?) ignition distributor attached to the front of...
• Re: CSI: Vanagon...
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:17:45 -0800
  ...Mark Mike Collum wrote: > Paul, > > You can tell by the plumbing and the distributor with the vacuum > advance/retard diaphragm that it's a...
• Re: Vanagon Stalls Out While Driving
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 2 May 2025 11:16:41 +0000
  ...Yes, all 4 injectors are wired in parallel and all fire at the same time.The hall unit in the distributor feeds pulses to...
• Re: O2 sensor type problem after replacing O2 sensor
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:13:15 -0800
  ...The special ground is the brown wire that comes out of the small bundle going to the distributor hall connector. The brown wire has...
• Re: 2.1 strange running before and after head gasket repair
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:31:29 -0500
  ...The O2 sensor reference is effected by the ground connection for the distributor. Follow that brawn wire coming out of the distributor harness. A...
• Found my instrument cluster..now a ?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 1 Oct 2009 21:47:24 -0700
  ...to go back to the coil or the alternator or the distributor and run a wire all the way up to the tach from...
• Re: General engine bolt/nut sizes
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:49:52 -0800
  ...if the distributor drive shaft slides up for any reason .....there are two shims under it that can tilt and jam in the distributor...
• Re: HELP: Engine stopped
  Historical mailing list - Fuzzy :philippe
  Sun, 10 Jul 2016 18:17:32 -0700
  ...Doing one myself right now. > > > > carefully check the connection on the side of the distributor. > > The plug has to be well down inside that...
• Re: Finding TDC (dumb question?)
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:54:12 -0600
  ...Remove the distributor cap. Put the vehicle in 2nd gear, push the car forward until #1 is up and the rotor arm is pointing...
• Re: Distributor rotor heat damage? (Solving intermittent engine stall)
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:08:38 -0800
  It's something I wouldn't have thought of but since I own WBX and Jetta powered buses, mix up could've happened. 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: Anything like this for 1.9L?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 29 May 2011 01:56:02 -0400
  ...If the engine (and hence the distributor pulses) slows below that figure the unit artificially advances the pulses that it passes on to the...
• Re: Plastic Ramps
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:18:56 -0400
  ...stabilized universal unlatcher at nominal cost, or direct you to a distributor. Some people prefer the Czech competition as being easier to operate, but...
• Urgent - removal of hose from fuel injector
  Historical mailing list - jesse lee reynolds
  Tue, 10 May 1994 10:11:20 -0500 (EST)
  ...While replacing fuel lines, the line from my metal fuel distributor thingy to my injectors 3 and 4 (I wasn't going to replace...
• 2.1 Engine Swap(Pulsing idle)
  Historical mailing list - Tim McDermott
  Mon, 13 May 1996 08:55:46 -0400
  ...I am using the 1.9 ECU and distributor. All plumbing was modified for the 2.1 motor. Has anyone had a similar experience...
• Re: electronic ignition in '71/1600?
  Historical mailing list - R.D. Robertson
  Thu, 18 Apr 1996 16:34:52 -0500
  ...Compu-Fire makes a similar points replacement module, as well as a distributor-less electronic ignition for somewhere around $200, I think. RDR
• Re: GEAR LUBE-my reply
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Mon, 1 Jun 1998 12:15:09 -0400
  ...I've yet to find a distributor of Redline either in Upstate NY or CT. Anyone knows of one? (I know I can mail...
• hOW DO i FIND THE BEST WAY TO TIME MY 83 1/2 WATERBOXER???
  Historical mailing list - Chuck
  Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:32:26 -0400
  ...5 mpg.) I jumped the Idle Control Modual to time the distributor with my strobe light. as per my Bently Manual. Any advice or...
• conversion project begins.
  Historical mailing list - John \"Shaggy\" Donovan
  Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:55:31 EDT
  ...on it(it was a factory new motor then the fuel distributor went, so my customer gave it to my years ago). So my...
• Re: Engine quit at freeway speed, no re-start
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:12:57 -0700
  ...measurements from the bentley. >An immediate shut off of the engine couid very well be the pickup in the >distributor has failed. > >Pretty common.
• VW reman engine.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 7 Jun 2005 23:59:17 -0400
  ...has spark plugs. Labels on Valve covers, Do not adjust valves. Distributor drive gear is not there. No gaskets for installation. Maybe there missing...
• Re: Hall Effect Sender? Speedo question
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Thu, 29 May 2008 10:54:41 -0700
  ...P 28.40 shows a "hall sender" unit on the distributor. (likely the same item) Maybe your VDO gauge uses pulses from a connection...
• Re: Need Advice - New Motor in '76 Won't Run
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Sat, 8 Jun 1996 14:48:24 -0500
  ...If it isn't, turn the distributor until it >is. If the rotor is already pointing at 1 or 3, swap the plug wires...
• Reassembled 1.9L from head gasket replacement won't start/idle
  Historical mailing list - Mike Braden
  Sat, 22 May 2004 18:15:03 -0500
  ...I also replaced the distributor rotor and cleaned the contacts in the cap. I think I may have wired the distributor wrong, and after...
• Re: 81 Vanagon Type 4 Motor Timing
  Historical mailing list - Geoffrey Toye
  Thu, 9 Apr 2020 09:35:42 -0400
  ...Back in the Beetle days it was common for us to use a 009 or 050 > centrifugal advance distributor. The 050 was my choice...
• Re: Vanagon Stalls Out While Driving
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Sat, 10 May 2025 09:48:58 -0600
  ...I'd did that, and all that happened (I had a noid on an injector, and the center distributor wire near ground). It was...
• Re: Unleaded Regular or Unleaded Premium? (Chemistry, beware!)
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:36:47 -0800
  ...Dana Morphew wrote: > > Do all knock sensors adjust the timing through a range of degrees above > and below the adjusted distributor setting? Do you...
• Re: Intake manifold hose
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:27:11 -0700
  ...There are hose distributors in town that might have a silicone product with the right ID. Do you suggest some heat to help Get...
• Re: finding TDC
  Historical mailing list - Jay & Kim Schmidt
  Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:52:45 -0600
  ...Thank you for the explanation! Jay Schmidt Seymout IN >Assuming you are looking for #1 TDC, remove the #1 spark plug, and the >distributor...
• Re: Ran good, now runs bad???
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:18:23 -0700
  ...Start the engine and look for jumping sparks around the terminals on the coil and distributor. It will be easy to spot when it...
• rough running
  Historical mailing list - Pat Little
  Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:54:33 -0700
  ...coil, ECU, injectors, air meter, idle controller/valve, voltage regulator, throttle, fuel pump, fuel distributor tubes, injector control relays.
• Re: Weird running issue with 86 Vanagon , tried dozens of things
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Sun, 14 Aug 2016 05:25:15 -0700
  Check the brown wire that comes from the distributor hall wiring bundle. That brown wire is the O2 sensor ground reference. It needs a...
• 009 installed and a question
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Henricks
  Sun, 12 May 1996 13:11:45 -0700 (PDT)
  ...i found that the old distributor had a frozzen advance plate (diaphram type) and a broken ground wire. would these make the engine stall...
• New (rebuilt) Steering Rack $200 (one only)
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Tue, 13 May 1997 16:46:51 -0400
  ...to return it to the distributor on Friday morning, but thought I'd offer it up to the list at a cheap price just...
• Tune Up Advice Needed
  Historical mailing list - Scott Semyan
  Tue, 15 Jul 1997 23:42:57 -0700
  ...Replace oil and filter Replace air filter Replace distributor & cap Replace plugs (Bentley says to gap these at .028, Autolite says .044 - anyone know...
• Re: Engine Quits
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:29:23 EDT
  ...Check the grounds first though and then check the distributor cap and rotor (cheapest and easiest to check and fix.) Hope this helps. Ken...
• Engine Noise
  Historical mailing list - Ray Perry
  Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:27:18 -0700
  ...I noticed a high-pitched squeel (sounded metalic to me) coming from near the distributor area ( or onside the case) at idle and as...
• Re: VW Trends and Eurospec
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:25:15 EST
  ...In my situation, I am still able to obtain the kit for my "personal use only" thru my local Eurospec distributor. Their pricing structure...
• Late model VW electronic ignition questions.
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Strickrott
  Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:06:48 -0500
  ...market? Lastly, should the vacuum lines to the vacuum advance/retard distributor be left connected or disconnected when setting the idle and timing? I...
• Re: Mark vs. the Distributor - Chapter 1(was "Driving dog" pin removal)
  Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
  Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:36:21 -0800
  Mike Miller wrote: > You guys just don't understand. It's no longer about what is the correct > procedure, in true blind pig headedness...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon GL
  Historical mailing list - Marion Lathem
  Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:10:17 -0500
  ...The rubber part that holds the wire in the housing of the distributor is gone, the wires are hanging out, but there are no...
• Re: Redline MT-90
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:35:25 -0500
  Yer FLAPS can usually get MT-90 from their usual distributors. Saves you shipping. Faster too! YMMV jm On Jan 17, 2008 9:53...
• Re: The "syndrome" solutions
  Historical mailing list - Vince S
  Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:54:42 -0700
  ...Being the hall sensor in the distributor it must also used by the ignition to time the spark plugs in each cylinder while the...
• Re: Spring startup
  Historical mailing list - 86 Westfalia
  Sat, 5 May 2001 11:43:23 -0300
  ...Then I pulled the middle wire of the distributor cap out. Turned the engine over for a few seconds. In my mind this helped...
• Re: Having trouble getting a good idle when cold and the computer functioning
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:33:41 -0500
  ...On the 1.9L engines, idle stabilizer works on the distributor advance to maintain idle to specifications. If you bypass idle stabilizer and idle...
• Intake manifold hose
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Fri, 26 Jun 2020 09:32:48 -0700
  The four hose pieces which connect the air intake distributor to the manifold pipes - I purchased under part VWC-039-133-241 as advertised...
• Re: Ecu fix addendum
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Wed, 1 Apr 2020 10:08:01 -0700
  ...albell@shaw.ca> wrote: > Between machine ops I swapped the original distributor back into van. Was > a bit of cranking before it started. Then...
• Re: Fuel tank problem solving - RESOLVED for now
  Historical mailing list - Cunegonde
  Tue, 3 Apr 2018 20:15:03 -0700
  ...Checked all the engine bay electrical and vacuum connections around the fuel rails, distributor and so forth. No start/pump running continuously. Switched the...