Re: lotsa gears.

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <3.0.3.16.19981021140735.309fadb8@n-jcenter.com> Mike Arman writes:

> Only practical use I've ever found for it, and that by accident, was we
> were going somewhere and I was getting cross-examined about something, and
> the light came on. Instant change of subject: "What's that light?"

When I took over John Robinson's 1986 Passat with 112000 miles, he'd
owned it from 8000.  During my first or second foray under the bonnet,
I discovered that the vacuum control circuit had a leak.  I traced this
to the vacuum advance unit on the distributor, which had as good as no
diaphragm.  I fixed it, and the upshift light started working again.

So I asked John how long the upshift light had been broken.

"What upshift light?"

He'd driven without vacuum advance for over ten years.

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