[Vwdiesel] FW: 82 diesel vanagon glowplug knob question

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liberal applications of liquid wrench from the cabin
side eventually loosened mine up....  it took a few
trys though!  :-)

~j.

--- LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
>   The knob is a cold start timing advance.  The
> timing on these is a straight 
> "curve" at about a 45 degree angle.  By pulling the
> knob out the timing 
> is straight advanced (flat line at however many
> degrees) and then resumes 
> in the normal advance curve when it hits about 2000
> rpm.
>   Leaving it out mostly just makes the engine a
> little noisier.  It's a good 
> idea 
> to push it in after it's warmed up a tad but it
> doesn't seem to hurt anything 
> either.  The cable might need a little something
> like WD-40 or such.  A 
> pain to get to it very well though.
>      Loren
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