hey
after it rains (not very often) there is always moisture gettin into the dizzy!!! and u cant start it!!!
it is put on right i think it might be the little black cover between the cap and the points etc????
cheers
rhys:kiss
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close the engine lid!
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
tis closed! has louvers in it though?
it aint just cool its aircool'd
Should have the black disc thing under the rotor that covers the points. Dont know how much it would affect it though.
I am rumming stand offs if this pouring rain and i have no problems.
I reckon you got a crack.
Futue te ipsum!!!
is this problem on your brother's beetle?
get some CRC or WD40 or even a new cap might fix the problem
yer its in bros beetle!!!
ok ill look at the cap spray some Inox in it and it rained last night so ill go chek it out/!!!!
thanks guys
cheers
rhys
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Rhys,
Some bugs are more suseptible than other to water on the distributor.
You can sometimes improve the situation by removing the wires from the distributor cap and giving it a complete wipedown with paper towels or rags to remove all the dust on top - this makes an excellent moisture trap so you get cross-firing arcos the top of the cap. Pull the coil main iwre and clena around that terminal too - same deal with the dust.
If you have a two-slot lid on that bug, they originally had rain trays under the lid to drain water out the bottom of the lid. If it's a 4-slot lid (72+ cars) - they have no rain tray (no room for it with the larger paper air cleaner) and the engine does get a little wet.
Keeping a can of WD40 handy is a good idea (it will usually cures a wet-start problem), but it has a downside - if you leave the WD40 on the distributor cap it eventually dries out and dust then sticks to it - starting the process all over days or weeks later - so the cap still needs a good cleanup.
Rob
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Whatever you do, DON'T spray WD40 or similar in dissy and try to start immediately. WD40 is flammable ("refined kero and peanut oil"). My auto elec. told me he has seen a dissy blown to pieces when someone did this.
VW car, VW engine ...... keepin it "real"
35MPG on 101.3kPa
Kool!!! That would have to be even better than those clear dizzy caps! 😀😀
Kruizin Kol
im pretty sure its a 009 dissy!
cheers
rhys
it aint just cool its aircool'd
So kombi kid has it got the plastics disk in?
Regards,Glenn>
yer
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