If your coil is hot, your dwell time is too long. Unfortunately you can't adjust dwell on factory ECU's. Or you have a bad coil or the wrong one for your application. They really shouldn't get hot in normal use. If they do and this is normal, that's news to me. -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Todd Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 6:39 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Coil boil I just recently had some work completed on my Syncro Westy which included a new coil for a 2.1 digifant - when I got home from the mechanic (about a 15 minute drive) and shut down the motor, I decided to touch the new coil and was surprised at how hot it felt - I could not touch it for any length otherwise I would have burned my hand. This is a new silver Bosch coil - is this normal? Thanks, Bruce |
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