> But the throttle switch. What a little bastard that is.

I agree. And worse yet, (possibly) is the old Gowesty vacuum actuated
switch. I haven't bothered to try and prove my theory but it may not
be a reliable design. But I digress.....

Do you think the ABA hybrid will have enough torque where you need it
in the Syncro?

Regardless, here's hoping the cap has fixed your WBX issue.

Neil.

On 9/23/17, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Neil,
>
> Good points. The AFM Carbon track is ( amazingly )good.
>
> But the throttle switch. What a little bastard that is. I did rebuild the tb
> early on, rebushed, made new throttle plate, bored throat etc. The tb is
> tight and good. But the switch has always given me problems. Have swapped in
> a couple. And I did read that Samba thread at the time and re visited the
> switch. Seemed ok but I’m not discounting a bad solder joint in there.
>
> But then again the issue hasn’t recurred since early summer. And you know I
> want to put I4 in the Syncro. Have two candidate blocks in garage, leaning
> to the 2.0 litre with 1.8 single cam head. So if the cap fix worked for me
> so far, that’s ok :-)
>
> Alistair

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