Hi Dave,
Yep, the car is running great again. What a relief when it fired up
on the first crank! I had no idea what I had done.

I'll post something I learned on this fix for posterity.

- Initially when putting in the new distributor, I left the the
raised, long lug on the oil pump drive shaft in the position when I
had pulled the old distributor. I didn't align it to be parallel with
the crankshaft (to lie perpendicular to the long axis of the car) as
per Bentley before installing the new distrubtor. This is the lug that
engages the bottom of the distributor shaft. The initial result was
the distributor was rotated too far counter clockwise and the
connector on the side of the distributor hit the engine and I couldn't
advance the timing to 6 deg BTDC. After thinking about it for awhile,
I realized it's the relationship between the rotor and the distributor
that determines the timing. The relationship of the distributor to the
engine block is irrelevant. Starting the installation again this time
with the lug aligned gave me lots of room to turn the distributor.

-Tony





On Apr 16, 12:35*pm, "dave AKA vwdoc1"
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