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• Re: distributor spring
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:16:57 -0500
  ...The spring helps the distributor drive shaft in the distributor to remain at the top of it's travel and pushes the actual gear...
• Fw: Distributor Drive Gear on 2000cc aircolled motor
  Historical mailing list - Adam Puzerewski
  Sun, 23 Apr 2000 17:57:05 -0400
  ...Distributor Drive Gear on 2000cc aircolled motor >My 1981 Vanagon has the distributor drive gear installed incorrectly. The >notch on the distributor for #1...
• Re: Broken timing gear?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:53:48 -0400
  ...The distributor is fine and the gear that drives the distributor looks good (the drive gear was hard to pull out of the block...
• Re: End-play's effect on timing.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Maurer
  Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:56:14 +0000
  ...Could it be of less durable metal? At the parts store, the first 2 distributor drive gears they gave me were bent/dented. They...
• distributor drive gear
  Historical mailing list - Steve Jevne
  Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:29:14 EDT
  I not only took the distributor out, I also took the drive gear out. So, if anyone has any ideas on how to get...
• Re: aligning distributor
  Historical mailing list - Tom Brunson
  Wed, 27 Aug 1997 02:49:04 UT
  ...drive gear has an eccentric groove which, (in my experience) keeps one from reinstalling the distributor in any orientation other than the correct orientation...
• Re: aligning distributor
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Bulley
  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:31:42 -0400
  ...drive gear has an eccentric groove which, (in my experience) keeps one from reinstalling the distributor in any orientation other than the correct orientation...
• Re: Help with distributor installation, seal question
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Strickrott
  Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:59:04 -0400
  ...distributor, but according to Bentley's there is also a round O-ring seal that goes between the distributor and the drive gear. Around...
• Broken timing gear?
  Historical mailing list - George Thorburn
  Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:52:23 -0600
  ...The distributor is fine and the gear that drives the distributor looks good (the drive gear was hard to pull out of the block...
• Re: I recently started assembling my engine,
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:23:06 -0400
  ...Does anyone have any experience with my problems? Tom when brass distributor drive gear gets chewed up it does not take the steel cam...
• Re: PLEASE HELP!!!.... TIMING ISSUES ON NEW ENGINE
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:59:21 -0500
  ...But the distributor drive gear is not as > the bentley shows it. It off by about a quarter turn. > Also.. i can spin the...
• Re: 2.1 distributor drive gear installation question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:07:31 -0500
  ...By the way, any one messing with a distributor gear and lacking a puller might try pulling out the little spring atop the gear...
• Re: Distributor drive shaft installation?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 1 Jul 2012 20:36:12 -0400
  ...brass drive gear .. if you do anything other than keep a distributor drive shaft well seated down into the engine and a distributor or...
• Re: Fw: Distributor Drive Gear on 2000cc aircolled motor
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:12:36 -0700
  ...Distributor Drive Gear on 2000cc aircolled motor > > >My 1981 Vanagon has the distributor drive gear installed incorrectly. The > >notch on the distributor for #1...
• Re: Distributor drive shaft installation?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 1 Jul 2012 13:13:46 -0700
  ...brass drive gear .. if you do anything other than keep a distributor drive shaft well seated down into the engine and a distributor or...
• Re: What are the 2 studs that block the distributor?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:05:27 -0500
  ...The alternative, which i've been doing, is to remove the distributor then remove the distributor drive gear again. I'm a little reluctant...
• Re: Possible Distributor Drive Shaft issue - Timing
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:49:56 -0700
  ...The first rule about the distributor drive gear in an air-cooled or waterboxer engine is never, ever turn the engine ( particularily clockwise I...
• Re: rattle INSIDE engine
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 5 Sep 2005 09:38:21 -0500
  ...The distributor drive gear on the distributor will "Bounce" each time you decelerate the car and the spring reduces this gear back out reaction...
• Distributor question
  Historical mailing list - Rick Koller
  Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:26:57 -0500
  ...I need to use the complete distributor assembly from the old engine. Does anyone have a method to extract the distributor drive from out...
• Re: 2.1 distributor drive gear installation question
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:59:06 -0700
  ...David --- Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > I'm ready to drop the drive gear into the block of my 2.1. I...
• Help with distributor installation, seal question
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Strickrott
  Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:44:01 -0400
  ...According to Bentleys, I am supposed to have an O-ring seal between the distributor body and the drive gear. Looking in the hole...
• Re: Possible Distributor Drive Shaft issue - Timing
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:29:09 -0400
  ...I couldn't get the dizzy drive shaft to drop back down > into the drive shaft gears while the pulley was 90 degrees ATDC...
• Re: What are the 2 studs that block the distributor?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
  Mon, 7 Nov 2005 08:34:07 -0800
  ...The alternative, which i've been doing, is to remove the distributor then remove the distributor drive gear again. I'm a little reluctant...
• Re: PLEASE HELP!!!.... TIMING ISSUES ON NEW ENGINE
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:25:57 -0700
  It sounds like the distributor drive gear didn't get dropped into the crankcase correctly. What you want to do is get a cylinder...
• Re: Stuck distr. drive shaft ...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:19:28 -0400
  ...Hi to all, I am having trouble to take out the distributor's drive shaft. That four inch long little shaft with a gear...
• PLEASE HELP!!!.... TIMING ISSUES ON NEW ENGINE
  Historical mailing list - jesse johnson
  Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:49:03 -0400
  ...But the distributor drive gear is not as the bentley shows it. It off by about a quarter turn. Also.. i can spin the...
• Re: Possible Distributor Drive Shaft issue - Timing
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:27:25 -0400
  ...Now for resetting of the distributor drive gear you gotta know what you're doing. This is one or more shims underneath that act...
• Re: Help diagnose Cinco
  Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
  Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:50:30 -0800
  ...When you say "It is possible to pull out the drive gear and re-orient but risky" are you talking about the distributor gear...
• Re: Broken timing gear?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:18:12 -0700
  ...van towed there. > The distributor is fine and the gear that drives the distributor looks > good (the drive gear was hard to pull out...
• Re: Gap of Sparks
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 15 Feb 2003 22:50:58 -0600
  ...The spring under the Vanagon and most VW distributor drives is supposed to stop vertical bounce caused by the gear bouncing on the lower...
• Puh-Leeeze Van-Again!!!
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Hayden
  Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:52:02 -0400
  ...I noticed the bottom gear that contacts the crank shaft looks pretty good but the gear that drives the distributor is all chewed up...
• Re: Distributor Shaft Pin
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 8 Jun 2017 16:31:19 -0700
  ...Has anyone replaced the pin holding the distributor shaft to drive gear with an SAE equal size roll pin (split sleeve type)? If so...
• Re: Stuck distr. drive shaft ...
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:40:23 -0400
  ...trouble to take out the distributor's drive shaft. That four inch long little shaft with a gear on it's end that goes...
• Distributor Shaft Pin
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Thu, 8 Jun 2017 14:26:12 -0700
  ...Has anyone replaced the pin holding the distributor shaft to drive gear with an SAE equal size roll pin (split sleeve type)? If so...
• Re: 80-82 owners: distributor question
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon Man
  Sun, 8 Jun 2003 19:01:59 -0400
  Most likely the distributor drive gear is in the wrong position to line the dizzy up properly............nonethe less, just figure out where TDC...
• Re: WAS Re: Bottom end reassembly?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:23:14 -0700
  ...always been under the impression that > the position of the distributor drive gear wasn't all that critical as far > as the engine's...
• Re: Possible Distributor Drive Shaft issue - Timing
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:00:55 -0700
  ...Distributor Drive Shaft issue - Timing <snip>I couldn't get the dizzy drive shaft to drop back down into the drive shaft gears while...
• Stuck distr. drive shaft ...
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:42:20 -0700
  Hi to all, I am having trouble to take out the distributor's drive shaft. That four inch long little shaft with a gear...
• Re: Re-installing distributer drive gear, T4
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 15 May 94 19:09:44 PDT
  ...the stock 73 distributor and the 009 are 90 degrees different in their #1 position. Just make sure you eyeballed that drive-dog slot...
• AGAIN:Bottom end reassembly?
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Tue, 2 May 2000 10:07:17 MST
  ...always been under the impression >that > > the position of the distributor drive gear wasn't all that critical as >far > > as the engine's...
• Re: Gap of Sparks - Note correction
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:36:49 -0600
  ...most VW distributor drives is > supposed > to stop vertical bounce caused by the gear bouncing on the lower > crank > contact gear. However under hard...
• Re: Truoble Tuning Mixed up engine! (long)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Apr 1994 14:43:59 -0400
  ...are you sure the distributor drive gear is in the right place ?? I would check the idiot book about this.
• Re: Hall Sender
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 10 May 2004 21:07:14 -0500
  ...Is the thrust washer under the distributor drive gear? Is the spring under the distributor between the drive and the gear? Out of ten...
• Re: AGAIN:Bottom end reassembly?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Tue, 2 May 2000 12:10:34 -0700
  ...always been under the impression > >that > > > the position of the distributor drive gear wasn't all that critical as > >far > > > as the engine's...
• Re: WAS Re: Bottom end reassembly?
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Tue, 2 May 2000 02:21:41 +0200
  ...always been under the impression that > the position of the distributor drive gear wasn't all that critical as far > as the engine's...
• Re: WAS Re: Bottom end reassembly?
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:53:04 -0700
  ...always been under the impression that the position of the distributor drive gear wasn't all that critical as far as the engine's...
• Re: Vanagon Stalls Out While Driving
  Historical mailing list - Markus Benne
  Mon, 19 May 2025 14:48:13 +0000
  OH, wait, you were commenting on the position of where plug 1 landed on the dizzy.   The distributor drive gear position shouldn't affect...
• Re: Distributor rotor heat damage? (Solving intermittent engine stall)
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:52:08 -0800
  ...I recall there's a bevel gear that's driven off the intermediate >> balance shaft... that may be loose somehow, allowing distributor shaft and...
• just helpless me again
  Historical mailing list - Steve Jevne
  Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:09:59 EDT
  ...My problem once I get the distributor shaft to engage in the drive gear, according to haynes, is that the rotor arm points to...
• Re: stumped
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:54:15 -0800
  sure, it's quite possible to get the distributor drive shaft/gear in incorrectly, ....resulting in # 1 spark plug position on the distributor cap...
• Re: Help diagnose Cinco
  Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
  Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:11:21 -0700
  ...distributor and realize that the PO (or some PO's mechanic) installed the distributor drive gear wrong! The slot is pointing at the distributor...
• OK!! I got my wasserboxer complete.. distributor drive is okey dokey NOW I HAVE NO OIL PRESSURE AT IDLE!
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Bartnicki
  Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:57:44 -0500
  rrThanks for all your help with my distributor drive gear problems.. that all worked out without splitting the case... NOW I have NO oil...
• 2.1 distributor drive gear installation question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:19:52 -0500
  I'm ready to drop the drive gear into the block of my 2.1. I've consulted Bentley on 13.38 figure 2...
• Fwd: [VANAGON] Distributor woes
  Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
  Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:20:17 -0400
  ...distributor slightly out of the case.? Wear on the tines at the end of the distributor and the heat of the 1200 mile drive...
• Re: Ignition screw ups
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:59:08 -0800
  ...Although far fetched, and shouldn't have happened, is it possible the drive gear for distributor is out by a tooth or two? I...
• Re: Distributor Shaft Pin
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 8 Jun 2017 19:37:29 -0700
  ...kit" to put an ABA-compatable drive gear on my own Digifant distributor.... I marked the timing gears, shafts, pulleys etc on both motors...
• website recommendations + 85 Vanagon gearshift issues
  Historical mailing list - AAG - Larry Word
  Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:02:44 -0400
  ...need the engine's distributor timing for this 1980's era C65 truck engine? (2) I own and drive daily a 1985 Vanagon - yesterday...
• Distributor drive shaft installation?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Olsen
  Sun, 1 Jul 2012 13:47:24 -0400
  ...By far the hardest part so far has been getting the distributor drive shaft re-installed. With the engine at #1 TDC and the...
• Re: new slave cylinder
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:16:38 -0500
  ...been having difficulty getting into first gear at all. I need to pull the shifter hard towards the drivers side to get into first.
• Re: Distributor rotor heat damage? (Solving intermittent engine stall)
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 21 Jan 2017 10:20:23 -0800
  ...I've forgotten exactly how the distributor shaft goes, but maybe that's > loose... I recall there's a bevel gear that's driven...