Tech and Community Help For Air-Cooled VWs
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And the question was, are they the nice full-surface-area square shims, or are they slightly loose or small round washers . . .72Hardtop wrote:Yeah, the shims are in place.
??Geeze! I have been sleepless for days! Got snappy as a result, and got sent to the dog house! Got a citation for no smoke detector in a domocile! Declared bankruptcy because i couldn't pay the fine! My life is ruined! And now I find that #1 exhaust is OK?72Hardtop wrote:My bad Colin, I grabbed the wrong lash check number on cylinder 1 the previous check.
Amskeptic wrote:Geeze! I have been sleepless for days! Got snappy as a result, and got sent to the dog house! Got a citation for no smoke detector in a domocile! Declared bankruptcy because i couldn't pay the fine! My life is ruined! And now I find that #1 exhaust is OK?72Hardtop wrote:My bad Colin, I grabbed the wrong lash check number on cylinder 1 the previous check.
Colin
A bit off topic considering I have 40mm Webers (no vacuum ports) what would be your next choice of distributor?You dare not ask me that one. I do not spew about individual engine parameters without having driven it.72Hardtop wrote:A bit off topic considering I have 40mm Webers (no vacuum ports) what would be your next choice of distributor?
Not touchin' that.Amskeptic wrote: I like individual coil packs on each spark plug.
Me neither. I love my points and condensor and oil-filled OEM coil on the VW engine, and I love the coil-on-plug system on the BMW, and the Lexus, whatever were they thinking? dual distributor with eight pages of shop manual on how to run the spark plug wires, with two HEI units buried in the bowels of wiring and pipes and vacuum hoses with a crank and cam sensor set-up just to fire some plugs, ach. Oh, and I touched it too . . .SlowLane wrote:Not touchin' that.Amskeptic wrote: I like individual coil packs on each spark plug.
My, that seems like an awful lot of work just to change out spark plug wires.Amskeptic wrote:and the Lexus, whatever were they thinking? dual distributor with eight pages of shop manual on how to run the spark plug wires, with two HEI units buried in the bowels of wiring and pipes and vacuum hoses with a crank and cam sensor set-up just to fire some plugs, ach. Oh, and I touched it too . . .
I know, right? See, I turned to page 12,768 in the manual where it said to pull off the cam covers, and then I thought I had just turned the page, right? but later I realized about 50 pages had stuck together?SlowLane wrote: My, that seems like an awful lot of work just to change out spark plug wires.
