In a message dated 22/10/2007 5:22:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:

Ah ha! I  see what the problem is! I'm clueless, /that's/ what the
problem is! What I  see when I peer down the barrel of the coil's center
connection is nothing.  Looks like the inside of a drinking glass. Other
versions have a center pin  in there?

Mr.  Squirrel, there are two different coils, one like you have and one with
the "pin  in the hole".  The one with the "pin in the hole" goes with the new
style  distributor cap that has "pins in the holes" and therefore all the
wires are  different also so that they connect to the "pins in the holes" !  The
early  version coil as you have can be used with new style cap and wires as
long as you  change out the wire end terminal of the wire to the coil to the
older style  terminal end.  These ends can be recouped from an old set of wires or
from  your FLAPS.  The newer style cap and wires are preferable as the wire
to  cap and wire to coil connections are more secure.  They can be fitted to
all Vanagon distributors.  Only the rotors are different, large hole early
version, small hole later version.

Cheers,

Frank  Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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