Allan, The big problem with having your distributor drive 180 degrees out on a Type 1 engine is that there is a retardation for #3 cylinder built into the distributor to help prevent it from running hot. Cheers, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Allan Streib Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:44 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: stumped On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:20 -0800, "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote: > perhaps a Tiico engine is differnt, but on all other VW engines, it's > not possible to put the distributor in 180 out, but it's easy to check > if that's suspected. Years ago I had an air cooled beetle with the distributer 180 degrees out. Actually it was not the distributor but the drive shaft. During a reassembly, the distributor drive shaft had been dropped in 180 degrees out of phase. Everything ran great, but anyone who was familiar with these engines would have been puzzled by which wires went to which plugs. Allan -- 1991 Vanagon GL |
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