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moisture in dizzy
kombi_kid - February 23rd, 2003 at 12:25 PM

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

amazer - February 23rd, 2003 at 05:36 PM

close the engine lid!

kombi_kid - February 23rd, 2003 at 05:53 PM

tis closed! has louvers in it though?

Bizarre - February 23rd, 2003 at 06:39 PM

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.

REDKG - February 23rd, 2003 at 08:34 PM

is this problem on your brother's beetle?

vw54 - February 23rd, 2003 at 08:39 PM

get some CRC or WD40 or even a new cap might fix the problem

kombi_kid - February 24th, 2003 at 07:07 AM

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

aussiebug - February 24th, 2003 at 12:40 PM

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.

56astro - February 24th, 2003 at 01:12 PM

Rhys

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.

KruizinKombi - February 24th, 2003 at 01:31 PM

Kool!!! That would have to be even better than those clear dizzy caps! :D:D

kombi_kid - February 24th, 2003 at 03:25 PM

im pretty sure its a 009 dissy!
cheers
rhys

OvalGlen - February 24th, 2003 at 08:29 PM

So kombi kid has it got the plastics disk in?

kombi_kid - February 24th, 2003 at 09:13 PM

yer