Jose Antonio Madriz writes: > > What i thought initially to be a carburator problem in my '73 bus is > manifesting now as a spark/distributor problem. My bus seems to be > running in 3 cylinders, maybe 2. After checking the spark from the > distributor with an inductive light i noticed that cylinders 2 and 4 > were getting a spark unevenly and once in a while... when taking the > wire plugs from cylinders 1 or 3 the engine dies, whereas if i take > the wire plugs from 2 or 4 (or both), the engine doesn't change revs > at all and keeps running as before. Now, if i hold #4 wire right next > to its distributor hole, the cylinder starts catching sparks and the > engine seems to make an effort in increasing revs... Funn, I *just* experienced this a couple of weeks ago. Turned out to be the plugs. I had Motocraft plugs in it and when I pulled them and replaced with Bosch, the problem went away. Symptoms were the same right down to the "holding the wire next to the distributor hole" thing. > > The points seem to be set correctly (dwell ~50 and remains +-1 when > increasing revs). I thought it might have been a problem with the old > and filthy spark plug wires that the bus had when i bought it, but > this morning i replaced them with new ones and the problem is still > there. I also changed the distributor cap, but didn't help. I'm not > sure where to go from here... could it be a bad condenser? The > distributor is a 009 mechanical advance. Any ideas? I have harped about this before, but the 009 mechanical advance is not a good choice for your '73 if it has the stock carbs. Put the stocker back in and prepare to be amazed at how much better it runs. -David ============================================================================ David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat) San Diego (Actually La Mesa) '72 VW Westfalia Camper (Da Project) California, USA '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) e-mail: des@teleport.com '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (14.17@99.34) http://www.teleport.com/~des '93 Weber WG-50 (Da Piano) ============================================================================
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