Date:         Sat, 5 May 2007 09:29:49 -0700
Reply-To:     roger sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         roger sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Question about a VW FOX
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Hello, this car has an inline 4 similar to the tiico.A1.8  Fox is a 93 with 116K.. The engine pings a tiny bit on acceleration or load. Has a digifant 2 ignition system. Not too bad a ping, but enough to want it fixed.Maybe a bit better gas  mileage.The Fox Bentley says that the timing can be checked and adjusted  manually if necessary.Sometimes this is a defective computer or carbon build up.I think it is wear inside the engine,even though it uses almost no oil.   The computer adjusts the timing in this car and there is no advance in the distributor. Well, turns out that I cannot get the distributor to .turn even a thousands of an inch.The aluminum distributor  seems to be frozen to the cast iron engine block.I can totally remove the hold down clamp and stil cannot budge it..I clamped vise grips to the distributor shaft and still could not turn it.Is my timing set forever,or can this distributor be made to cooperate?
                                          Pinge ponged (in Beltsville)


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