Take it back or send it back immediately. I tried to get warranty on one
with the label scratched off the pickup unit and they wouldn't do
anything. So Cal Imports sounds just as bitchy as compu-fire factory. Get
your money back as quickly as possible. That little spacer was just part
of the problem. The wires to the pickup unit are so fragile that they
move up into the rotor travel unless you have the nylon separator disk in
your distributor (I never had the separator, it voided my warranty). I
had other problems too, the wires were too short to reach the coil. I
waited three weeks for them to send the tiny little aluminum spacer.
The instructions vary from one distributor to any others but they don't
tell you that.

Stan Wilder (burned at compu-fire, ..... K them.)
83 Westfalia Air Cooled

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:49:21 -0500 Dan Eggert <deggert@NEW.RR.COM>
writes:
Hello Everyone,
Has anyone installed the compu-fire electronic ignition on a vacuum
advanced distributor?  The one that they sent me does not seem to want to
install right.  I was sent the 21100 module and it is supposed to be the
21101.  When I called SoCal Imports they, said that it was the right one
and the only difference is that there was a spacer added that you drop on
the shaft of the distributor.  With or without the spacer, the rotor will
not lock down hence, it don't work!  Now I am back to the problem that I
was trying to fix by getting the Compu-fire, my points!  I'm trying to
set them again, but seem to not be able to get the right gap.  Does
anyone know a ball park figure for a gap that I should be setting it to.
It was at .483 and it started but it wasn't right. I tried to reset it
and now I can't get it to even fire.  Help!
Thanks everyone,

Eggz
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