sounds like a full evening of VW fun......... :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "No Quarter" <[email protected]> To: "Air-Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 1:43 AM Subject: [vintagvw] Workin' on the Brazilian Crew Cab
> My wife has friends from Australia in town and as I type this, they're fast > asleep at their motel. We spoke on the phone and are looking at having a > good > time with them tomorrow. They are here on business and have been able to > squeeze in a day to come see us. > > We're hoping the Brazilian Crew Cab will take us all over town in style. > > I'd been noticing the engine was cutting out a bit at times as wasn't sure > just what to make of it so at about 8:00 tonight while things were cooling > down outside, I tore into the engine and had my wife (willingly I might add!) > spin the engine over with a wrench so I could lay underneath and do the valve > adjustment. All the valves were okay with the worst being about .004" and I > like them at .006" so that ruled out any valve issues. > > Next step was to pull the spark plugs. After reading the stack of receipts > in > the glove box a month ago, I found out that #3 had an insert. I wasn't able > to get the insert off of the plug so I had to put that old plug back in. > Otherwise everything else got new plugs and new wires. I found the brake > booster line was a bit kinked so I replaced that with some genuine > cloth-braided VW line. Gotta love it because it fits right every time! Next > step was to pull the distributor and ignition box out of it. I'm saving them > as they have Potugese labels on them and are no doubt the original ignition > components that go with this engine. I grabbed my SVDA distributor and put > on > a new o-ring and got it ready to install. The old distributor had the drive > dog 180 degrees out of time so I copied that with the new distributor. When > I > started checking things out, I ended up not needing to do this at all. If I > had checked the wires before I yanked them off, they were probably set up ! > 180 degrees out as well...had to have been. With Enid spinning the engine > yet > again for me, I put the engine at TDC and by putting the drive dog back in > the > original position on the SVDA dizzy, it was pointing at #1. Fair enough. So > I put the valve cover back on, threw on a new BOSCH blue coil, and started to > install the electronic points replacement called Accu-Fire. > > Now a local VW vendor sells them and says they work great. The problem is > now > that twice, when I try to install the Accu-Fire in an SVDA distributor, the > rotor sits up too high and the cap won't fit. I've tried all sorts of things > to get it to work and on the last VW I worked on, I just put it back to > points > because it won't fit. If you take out the spacer ring, then the magnetic > disc > crashes on the accu-fire module. So while I was scratching my head and > wishing I had purchased a Pertonix for vac. advance dizzies, I got the idea > of > taking an old worn-out distibutor and pulling the center shaft out. Then I > put that in the lathe, stuck the rotor on the tip, and using my parting tool, > cut off about 3/16" off the bottom of the rotor. It bottomed out on the SVDA > shaft and then the cap fits fine. It's an odd thing and I'm not quite sure > if > it's just poor quality control or if there is something different with the > SVDA that makes it not fit. > > Anyway, I removed a piece of plastic tubing that someone used for a vacuum > line and installed a bent-up but very useable OEM metal advance line and put > the cloth braided tubing on both ends. > > By the time I came in, it was 12:25am and will have to wait until morning to > set the timing and do the final tune-up due the noise abatement laws. > > Thanks for reading! > > NQ > > _______________________________________________ > vintagvw site list > [email protected] > http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
