Rick,
    I think you may have hit the nail on the head with my problem.  I have
a inline 4 swap vanagon.  Its over heating running bad, and I'm out of
guesses to the problem.  Timming seams to be on but late in advancing.
As soon as the rain stop I'm going to check this out.....
details will follow.

            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          86-SS Syncro
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
                                   92-Jetta GWC
            www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Rick Sherrod wrote:

> Saw this on a Rabbit once.  The Rabbit had an electronic ignition and the little round "key" that locks the hall sender trigger cage to the distributor shaft was missing.  The trigger was spinning around in relation to the shaft causing all kinds of early and late sparks, but the rotor was always pointed to the correct plug so the engine ran.  The entire exhaust glowed like a jet engine afterburner.  Inside your distributor see if the silver trigger cage spins freely on the distributor shaft.  If it does, you can make a round "key" out of almost any very small nail without taking the distributor apart.
>
> If you don't see a problem with the trigger cage you need to check the ignition timing.
>
> Rick Sherrod
> Macon, GA
> www.teutonix.com
>
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > On our recently purchased 89 Wolfsburg, we were checking out the engine
> > towards the evening hours, and noticed all four exhaust pipes (where they
> > come of the heads) were glowing red hot when we held the RPMs around 2500
> > RPMs for a few minutes.
> >
> > This does not seem normal to me.  My thought is a partial clog in the cat
> > or muffler.
> >
> > Do folks agree or is there something else to check?
> >
> > Z
> >
> >
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