Date:         Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:33:49 -0600
Reply-To:     Fred Younger <fyounger@AMFAM.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Fred Younger <fyounger@AMFAM.COM>
Organization: American Family Insurance
Subject:      Re: DISTRIBUTOR, INSTALLING
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com
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Scott Hall wrote:
>
> Howdy Volks,
> I finally got the new distributor in for "Das Boot."  She is a 1986 Westy with
> Digifant injection.  I am attempting to install it myself.  I have the Bentley and the
> Haynes manual.  Both talk about "aligning the rotor with the notch in the distributor
> body that corresponds to the number cylinder."  I can't figure to which notch
> they refer.   Mine has two.   One is about a centimeter wide and is adjacent
> to the electrical connector.  The other is on the opposite side and is no
> more than a small mark that could have been made by drawing a hacksaw
> across the edge or by stamping with a flathead screwdriver and a hammer.
> Which notch do they mean???
[bad dealer experience snipped]
> Dan Hall

The manual is referring to the small mark.  The large notch fits into
a projection on the distributor cap and isn't used for timing or
aligning the rotor.  That small mark is on the side of the
distributor that is toward the back of the van.

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Fred Younger
91 GL