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Re: CANCEL THAT: WAS Testing fuel delivery results, one oddity, now NO oddity
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:01:50 -0700
...I THOUGHT THE "2" WAS INDICATING THE SKINNY WHITE HOSE > THAT CONNECTS TO THE VACUUM ADVANCE ASSEMBLY ON THE SIDE OF THE > DISTRIBUTOR. FURTHER...
Re: Throttle Valve Stop Screw Adjustment.
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Wed, 4 Jul 2012 12:21:55 -0400
...Also on the 1.9 engines the port is also used for the distributor vacuum advance. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto...
Re: Installing a 2.1 engine into 1.9 vanagon ?
Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:19:46 -0400
...for the idle air bypass valve and reroute the vacuum advance on the distributor. If you have an earlier 1.9l with the dual...
Re: carburator for a '73 bus
Historical mailing list
Mon, 17 Jul 95 8:54:51 MDT
...1) The stock advance/devance distributor used on the stock dual carbs won't work with the Webber. The vacuum ports don't match...
Defeating '75 bus self-destructs
Historical mailing list
Tue, 25 Apr 1995 22:52:33 -0500
...The one currently installed is purely mechanically advanced. The original must have had vacuum advance as well. Any idea which distributor belongs in this...
Re: Correct Gap of Sparks
Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:38:29 -0000
...These distributors had no vacuum advance and generally showed pretty accurate centrifugal advance curve, with a single kink, where the stiffer of two springs...
Re: Some 1600cc questions.
Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
Mon, 15 May 1995 11:45:16 -0700 (PDT)
...Marcus, I don't know if that 050 shouldn't be used in the 1600, but if it's a dual-vacuum advance unit...
Re: Compu fire Question
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:13:19 -0500
...Hello Everyone, Has anyone installed the compu-fire electronic ignition on a vacuum advanced distributor? The one that they sent me does not seem...
Re: Name That Part - Bonus Round
Historical mailing list - Mike
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:36:17 -0400
...of the distributor is a hole in the tin cover, and > something that looks like it might have had a vacuum line, or maybe...
Re: 85 wbx 1.9 miss at idle
Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:32:34 -0800
...I checked the timing > when I got home and it was > set a about 2 or 3 ATDC. > The Digijet distributor has a vacuum...
Re: will a 2.1L long block work with 1.9L FI and hardware?
Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:08:01 -0800
...1 Throttle doesn't have the vacuum port(s) for the advance/retard on the 1.9 distributor, as none are used on the...
Re: Correct Gap of Sparks
Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:24:20 -0800
...20th degree!) and as we lift off, the spark >advances - - exactly what the vacuum advance system does, 'cept it moves the >timing 100 or...
Re: Bad Idle Stabilizer?
Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:29:35 -0500
...Anything faster than idle will take out the vacuum retard function built into the distributor. I think 5 BTDC might be a little too...
Re: DJ-code WBX technical specs
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:00:57 -0800
...2 >>> distributor part number: Bosch 0 237 022 054 >>> ignition timing: 10 +/- 1 BTDC @ 800 RPM without vacuum (see note) >>> ignition advance checks: 0...
Re: Advancing timing for more power, was: Boston Bob's web site
Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
Fri, 3 May 2002 08:34:28 -0400
Yes, but the Eurospec motor may not have the 10 degrees of retard built into the vacuum advance/retard distributor? It is an emission...
Re: CANCEL THAT: WAS Testing fuel delivery results, one oddity, now NO oddity
Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:35:00 -0500
...I THOUGHT THE "2" WAS INDICATING THE SKINNY WHITE HOSE >> THAT CONNECTS TO THE VACUUM ADVANCE ASSEMBLY ON THE SIDE OF THE >> DISTRIBUTOR. FURTHER...
Re: Ping/Knock/Detonation
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:39:17 -0600
...Is the >> > timing set to spec or slightly advanced? Get it set back down. Make >> > sure the >> > vacuum retard on the distributor is working...
Re: Unleaded Regular or Unleaded Premium?
Historical mailing list - David Marshall
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:02:01 -0800
...This was all done using a 1982 Rabbit Distributor with vacuum advance and vacuum retard - generally considered the best performance non-knock sensor distributor...
RE: 73 bus / timing question...The good old days
Historical mailing list - Easton Trevor
Wed, 26 Jun 96 18:46:00 DST
...volume, mixture etc) so the amount of advance required varies and the distributor centrifugal and vacuum advance mechanisms attempt to provide the optimum condition...
Simple timing question, '84 1.9 l
Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
Sun, 5 Mar 2006 16:43:17 -0500
...3) leave all vacuum hoses CONNECTED to distributor, etc. 4) Set the timing mark (V-mark ground in on pulley, to the left of...
Re: High Idle, Fuel Pressure Test Results and Advice Needed
Historical mailing list - Tracy Bonin
Mon, 9 Dec 2002 06:04:03 -0800
...months. - plugs, wires, distributor cap and rotor - replaced small vacuum hoses to vacuum advance, fuel pressure regulator - measured manifold vacuum (around 10 - 12 psi...
Timing Mark
Historical mailing list - David Johnson
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:54:31 -0600
...where the rotor was, roughly where the vacuum advance was, and successfully swapped in the new distributor. Now, having said all that, I am...
Re: Bummer, man--Gross Polluter
Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
Wed, 23 May 2007 16:57:52 -0400
...for that time, too...) > >New distributor, hall sender, wires, plugs, cap, rotor, hall control, coil >checks good. No vacuum leaks, AAR checks good, rebuilt...
Re: Ping/Knock/Detonation
Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:05:28 -0800
...Is the > timing set to spec or slightly advanced? Get it set back down. Make > sure the > vacuum retard on the distributor is working...
Re: ECU Digital
Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
Mon, 16 May 2022 14:15:28 -0400
...This is extremely critical as your distributor has both vacuum advance and retard. The plate needs to close properly to close off the advance...
Re: Possible Distributor Drive Shaft issue - Timing
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:27:25 -0400
...You also need to test both the vacuum advance, retard, and mechanical advance. Now for resetting of the distributor drive gear you gotta know...
Re: Yet another 2 liter question
Historical mailing list - Michael Nichols
Sun, 15 Jul 2001 22:13:19 -0400
...I would like to add that one van now has a wonderful mechanical advance new Brazilian distributor purchased from the BusDepot for about $70...
Woody's stumbling, carpets for 83.5
Historical mailing list - Woody Halsey
Thu, 4 Nov 1999 16:02:22 -0500
...The housing on the side of the distributor where the wire plugs in has partially broken away from the body of the distributor. Wiggle...
Truoble Tuning Mixed up engine! (long)
Historical mailing list
Mon, 11 Apr 1994 12:37:50 EDT
...Pure-Vacuum distributor (from a '69 Bug, I think) (No mechanical advance) 30-PICT-2 carb. I have all the parts installed, and am...
Re: Bad Idle Stabilizer?
Historical mailing list - Daniel L. Katz
Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:51:14 -0500
...Anything faster than >>idle will take out the vacuum retard function built into the distributor. >>I think 5 BTDC might be a little too...
Re: Installing Idle stabalizer.
Historical mailing list - Greg Marshall
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:12:41 -0400
...and I are getting together this week to check > timing and vacuum advance, so that should help either solve the problem, > or rule out...
Re: CANCEL THAT: WAS Testing fuel delivery results, one oddity, now NO oddity
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:50:34 -0700
...I THOUGHT THE "2" WAS INDICATING THE SKINNY WHITE HOSE >>> THAT CONNECTS TO THE VACUUM ADVANCE ASSEMBLY ON THE SIDE OF THE >>> DISTRIBUTOR. FURTHER...
Re: How Long Does it Take Your Van to Warm up? Cont.
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:35 -0400
...The distributor uses both vacuum and mechanical advance systems. Idle warm up speed is done with an "auxiliary" air regulator, mounted the right head...
Re: DJ-code WBX technical specs
Historical mailing list - Chris S
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:19:24 -0500
...2 >>>> distributor part number: Bosch 0 237 022 054 >>>> ignition timing: 10 +/- 1 BTDC @ 800 RPM without vacuum (see note) >>>> ignition advance checks: 0...
Re: digijet FI adjustments-Digifant
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:56:17 -0400
...Check vacuum advance operation. Opening throttle should quickly advance timing. Further check, remove vacuum retard hose, (one directly to manifold). Timing must advance. If...
Re: Engine cut out.
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:55:37 -0700
...I put on a spare distributor I carry, and replaced tired vacuum lines that go the vacuum advance and fuel pressure regulator ..she was...
Re: air cooled ignition distributor questions
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:41:32 -0700
...Mech and vacuum advance were close > to > specs when I checked them a year or so ago. > > So,, any suggestions for things to look...
Re: CANCEL THAT: WAS Testing fuel delivery results, one oddity, now NO oddity
Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:36:16 -0500
...I THOUGHT THE "2" WAS INDICATING THE SKINNY WHITE HOSE >>> THAT CONNECTS TO THE VACUUM ADVANCE ASSEMBLY ON THE SIDE OF THE >>> DISTRIBUTOR. FURTHER...
Help ongoing '78 problems
Historical mailing list - John Anderson
Mon, 2 Oct 95 21:16:47 EDT
...Now I can actually spin it by hand and vacuum advance works smoothly set the points to .016" funny thing is dwell still at...
Re: Correct Gap of Sparks
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:24:06 -0600
...These distributors had no vacuum > advance and > generally showed pretty accurate centrifugal advance curve, with a > single > kink, where the stiffer of two springs...
hard starting when warm('71 westy)
Historical mailing list - matt weasner
Sun, 11 Aug 1996 14:21:51 -0700
...The engine in question is a 1500cc with a 30pict3 carb and a mechanical type distributor. (I plugged up the vacuum hoses from the...
Re: Arduino and Vanagons
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Sun, 17 Nov 2013 13:49:57 -0500
...controlled by the vacuum capsule on the side of >the distributor. Yes, 1.9l has centrifugal advance, and both vacuum advance and retard. The...
Re: How Long Does it Take Your Van to Warm up? Cont.
Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:15:27 -0400
...are you using the '84 distributor with the vacuum advance/retard? Mike '84 GL 7 pass '85 GL Westy James Benthall wrote: > Sorry about...
Re: Analog TPS fitted to a WBX throttle body?
Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:48:17 +0000
...For now, >i am just using the stock vacuum advance (mostly out >of simplicity). In it's primary configuration, >megasquirt is fuel only. However...
Re: Need help ... on lazy van
Historical mailing list - Dan N
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:14:47 -0700
...while doing so...ensure > the distributor is working correctly. When you rev the engine the timing > should advance about 30 degrees. > > Z > > On Monday...
Re: Help diagnose Cinco
Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:45:04 -0800
...vacuum advance and mechanical advance > is not > binding.That they are at the non running position.Do you have the > proper > rotor? >
Timing
Historical mailing list - Peter Zendzian
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:46:23 -1000
...distributor and fixed any vacuum leaks that I could find. The only thing that showed any improvement was when I fixed the vacuum leaks...
Re: Timing Mark
Historical mailing list - Zoltan
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:08:53 -0700
...where the rotor was, roughly where > the vacuum advance was, and successfully swapped in the new distributor. > > Now, having said all that, I am...
Re: What should I hear if I pressurize my intake manifold?
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:40:32 -0700
...Alistair PS the old method of vacuum leak detection is by using propane (or ether!!)...directing the gas around the suspected areas and noting...
Re: Not in R or D
Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 08:56:06 -0400
...Idle stabilizer advances timing in distributor to keep idle constant. Remember that when you restart the van, the O2 sensor is cut out for...
Re: Bummer, man--Gross Polluter
Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
Wed, 23 May 2007 15:33:26 -0700
...for that time, too...) > > > >New distributor, hall sender, wires, plugs, cap, rotor, hall control, > coil > >checks good. No vacuum leaks, AAR checks good, rebuilt...
What should I hear if I pressurize my intake manifold?
Historical mailing list - David Marshall
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:18:16 -0700
...Is there any timing at which all intake valves will be closed? Thanks in advance - should have tested this motor out of the van...
Re: Correct Gap of Sparks
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:23:42 -0600
...These distributors had no vacuum > > > advance and > > > generally showed pretty accurate centrifugal advance curve, with > a > > > single > > > kink, where the stiffer of two springs...
Re: Unleaded Regular or Unleaded Premium? (Chemistry, beware!)
Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:36:47 -0800
...using a 1982 Rabbit Distributor with vacuum advance and vacuum > > retard - generally considered the best performance non-knock sensor > > distributor. If there was a...
Re: Carb Conversion Question
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Sun, 1 Apr 2007 08:27:50 -0400
...the fuel tank vapor recovery system and vacuum control for the distributor. A full centrifugal advance distributor is an option. Do you have an...
Re: Bummer, man--Gross Polluter
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Tue, 22 May 2007 23:17:40 -0400
...for that time, too...) New distributor, hall sender, wires, plugs, cap, rotor, hall control, coil checks good. No vacuum leaks, AAR checks good, rebuilt...
The coninuing distributer saga - LOOONG
Historical mailing list - B Feddish
Sat, 1 May 2010 11:59:49 -0400
...We pretty much confirmed my vacuum advance was not cooperating. I ordered a good used one and also made an appt at the local...
Re: ECU Digital
Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
Sun, 15 May 2022 20:43:58 -0400
...This is extremely critical as your distributor has both vacuum advance and retard. The plate needs to close properly to close off the advance...
Re: Weird ignition timing - '85 Westy
Historical mailing list - Daniel L. Katz
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:29:17 -0400
...occasionally at part throttle at certain speeds/loads with maximum vacuum and centifugal advance. to power time an engine, you keep advancing the initial...
used engine parts for Sale
Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:34:47 -0400
...of the distributor is a hole in the tin cover, and > something that looks like it might have had a vacuum line, or maybe...