This is a 2.1. I dont think the #3 is slightly retarded. But why did they do
that on the older engines? I know the aircooled bugs were like that.

>From: Tom Young <tomyoung1@COMCAST.NET>
>Reply-To: Tom Young <tomyoung1@COMCAST.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: distributor drive shaft installation
>Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:03:44 -0700
>
>I've done this several times and never lost washers down into the engine.
>Not sure what engine you're talking about here but if you can get the
>engine
>properly timed with the distributor in backward I guess there's no big deal
>in leaving it that way.  Though, weren't some older distributors for older
>engines designed so #3 was slightly retarded?
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>Tom Young                       '81 Vanagon
>Lafayette, CA 94549         '82 Westfalia
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Seifert" <theburnvictims@HOTMAIL.COM>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:30 AM
>Subject: distributor drive shaft installation
>
>
> > i think i installed my distributor drive shaft 180* out, because my
>dist.
>is
> > in backwards. should i leave it alone, or try to pull it out and turn it
> > around? would i be risking losing those 2 washers at the bottom? thanks.
> >
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