Did you check where the drive gear in the crankcase is set? If it's off by a couple teeth, things don't line up per the book, but you still can make it run.
I just got done fixing a '62 Bug for a guy here - whoever put the motor together put the drive gear in correctly, but used a distributor from a Type 3 engine, which was set up to have the vacuum advance unit on the front instead of the back. The plug wires were installed per the book - and were 90 degrees off, which is why he couldn't get it to start. I made sure he understood why the wires in the cap would not match the book, unless he found the correct distributor for the engine. It runs fine like that. Chuck Kuecker On 8/1/2010 1:19 PM, asad ishaque wrote: > Hello Volks folks, > Been awfully quiet out here, wonder whats everyone up to?? > Have a simple question thats been confusing me for a long time. On > page no 63 of the Engine section of the blue bentley theres a picture of a > distributor which says that "driving dog must line up with line (arrow) > running through No 1 cylinder mark on distributor housing rim and notch in > cam on drive shaft....." > Heres my problem......All the dizzies I have.....and I do have a good > bunch of them in two or three styles that VW offered over the years.......do > not match up with this picture. All are off by a fixed amount.....about 90 > Degrees if I recall right.....If I flip the dizzy dog by 180 degrees (which > is the only thing you can do with it) it still doesnt align....driven me nuts > really as to how can this be..... > Why is this???? I would be surprised if I have pointed to a mistake in > the bentley manual. Or am I wrong somewhere???? Im sure there is a logical > explanation for this... > AsadKarachiPakistan. > ________________________ _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
