JBugs - 1971 VW Super Beetle - Timing a 009 Distributor:

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0:00 hi I'm Sam with jbugs.com uh now that 0:02 we've got a new carburetor installed 0:04 we're going to go back and double check 0:05 the timing on our double 09 centrifugal 0:08 Advance distributor 0:14 personally not a big fan this 0:17 distributor was originally made by 0:18 Volkswagen as a industrial distributor 0:21 this distributor is either on or it's 0:25 off again not the best thing for driving 0:27 or you want a smooth Advance which is 0:29 what you get out of a vacuum advance or 0:31 a single vacuum dual Advance where it's 0:33 actually running a centrifugal Advance 0:35 like the 009 but it's also running a 0:37 vacuum advance so you get that smooth 0:39 Advanced curve pulled off the vacuum of 0:41 the carburetor Timing prep 0:43 we've got our timing light set up with 0:44 power 0:45 and ground 0:46 and it's cutting getting a signal from 0:48 the number one spark plug 0:50 we're going to go through and 0:54 because we're not running a degree 0:56 pulley we're going to be looking for 0:57 timing marks on this stock style pulley 1:00 and ah 1:03 we got a little fan shroud rub that's 1:04 that high I heard a high-pitched sound 1:06 earlier 1:08 we've got our timing marks 1:11 which are here 1:13 and here and here so this has actually 1:16 got three marks now seeing as I don't 1:19 know anything about this pulley what 1:21 these timing marks are at fortunately my 1:24 timing light actually has an advanced 1:26 feature so I can go through and figure 1:27 out what those marks are but I like 1:29 using a digital advanced timing light 1:32 because I can go through and just set my 1:34 Max advance 1:36 and as long as I know what top dead 1:37 center is I know I'm getting my Max 1:39 advance 1:49 a nice Mark to 1:53 hopefully illustrate this much more 1:56 clearly 1:57 while we're running 2:21 zero time 2:46 foreign 2:58 [Music] Timing info 3:08 so we're getting 25 degrees out of this 3:10 distributor but our initial timing is 3:11 literally set at zero 3:13 so 3:15 on a air-cooled engine with you know 3:19 regardless of which distributor 3:22 uh what fuel or otherwise 3:25 you can typically get away with about 31 3:27 to 33 degrees of full advance 3:30 so 3:31 I just normally will set my timing at 3:34 about 32 degrees 33 31 32 33 fully 3:38 Advanced so what I'll do is actually I'm 3:39 going to loosen this distributor clamp 3:42 rev this thing up I'm going to set my 3:45 timing light Advanced to 32 degrees and 3:48 then I'm going to rotate the distributor 3:49 until that timing mark shows up at 32 3:52 degrees and that will be 3:56 fully Advanced to where this thing 3:57 should perform a lot better at which 4:00 point we're probably going to have to go 4:01 back and readjust the carburetor but I'm 4:03 going to do that right now Timing adjustments 4:07 [Music] 4:38 I'll set the initial timing at seven 4:39 degrees so when the distributor Advance 4:41 is 25 degrees more we should get to the 4:44 32 degrees of total advance 4:57 when I rev up the engine check the tire 5:00 I can see that we're a couple of degrees 5:01 off 5:23 so I go back and set the initial time to 5:25 get nine degrees 5:27 and then rev the engine up again to 5:29 check the advanced timing 5:31 now it's right on the Mark at 32 degrees 5:57 I checked the idle speed as it has 5:59 increased because of the advanced timing 6:02 and I adjust it back to about 900 RPM 6:06 by turning large bypass screw on the 6:08 side of the carburetor 6:12 [Music] 6:37 two end I'll double check the advanced 6:39 timing 6:41 which is still at 32 7:13 and that seems much better we the engine 7:15 seems a lot more responsive now that 7:17 we've got 7:18 actual proper timing set in this engine 7:21 um it turned out this would be static 7:23 timed at about nine degrees with this 7:25 distributor and then it Advanced out to 7:28 32 degrees 7:30 so 7:32 we're going to take this thing for test 7:33 bin and see how she feels now Test drive 7:36 [Music] 7:58 it's not a rocket ship by any means but 8:01 it feels much much better 8:16 shift points on the speedometer as far 8:18 as the mile per hour seems to match up 8:20 really well 8:23 I'm pretty happy with it for being a 8:25 devil and iron she's actually really 8:26 really responsive I can't complain one 8:28 bit 8:30 not much hesitation at all 8:42 not bad 8:46 for a double 09 8:50 it's carburetor scenes to have just the 8:52 right amount of Advance out of it 8:56 the distributor now that we've got it 8:57 timed properly 9:00 it just seems smooth as can be 9:07 and that's third indicator will shift to 9:09 Fourth 9:15 I like it 9:17 I really like it 9:19 for a double or nine even and I'm not a 9:22 big fan of devil and I 9:24 this thing drives it very very well 9:58 that's a wrap Closing thoughts 10:00 in reality this thing's ready to go 10:04 um but again as I mentioned 10:07 despite how really really well this car 10:10 runs right now even with a 34 Pick 3 10:14 carburetor and a you know a non-vacuum 10:16 advance distributor 10:18 I I'm I'm aghast at how well and how 10:21 smooth this thing runs currently but 10:22 just the same 10:24 uh it's still running a standard points 10:27 and condenser ignition 10:29 and it doesn't have a vacuum and we're 10:32 gonna Swap this out 10:35 in our next video we'll show you how to 10:37 swap out from a double09 to a 10:39 centrifugal Advanced distributor