Vac advance 009?
 

Cleaning my shop today I found an old distributor which has been on the
back of a shelf for 10+ years that I took off an old engine. Anyway
before I put it into the junk file, I checked the number which is 0 231
137 009. It is a vacuum advance 009. I did not know VW ever had a 009
mech/vac advance. Can anyone shed some light on this. It has the
standard VW logo to the left of the numbers and Bosch made in Germany on
the bottom. Dennis

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1977 Puma</a>

Dennis Wik wrote:

> Cleaning my shop today I found an old distributor which has been on the
> back of a shelf for 10+ years that I took off an old engine. Anyway
> before I put it into the junk file, I checked the number which is 0 231
> 137 009. It is a vacuum advance 009. I did not know VW ever had a 009
> mech/vac advance. Can anyone shed some light on this. It has the
> standard VW logo to the left of the numbers and Bosch made in Germany on
> the bottom. Dennis
>
> href="http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4025706&a=30209382&vt=vp">Den's
> 1977 Puma</a>
>

0231 137 009 113 905 205K 0231 137 010 113 905 205L Beetle 66-67

From: http://www.oldvolkshome.com/ovhignbo.htm


Speedy Jim
http://www.nls.net/mp/volks/

It must have been off the 66' I gave to my son a few years ago. Anyway,
I always thought that a 009 Bosch was a centrifugal advance distributor
only and I was surprised to see one with a vacuum hook up. How did this
number designation end up on the two different designs?

href="http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4025706&a=30209382&vt=vp">Den's
1977 Puma</a>

Dennis Wik wrote:
> It must have been off the 66' I gave to my son a few years ago. Anyway,
> I always thought that a 009 Bosch was a centrifugal advance distributor
> only and I was surprised to see one with a vacuum hook up. How did this
> number designation end up on the two different designs?
>
> href="http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4025706&a=30209382&vt=vp">Den's
> 1977 Puma</a>
>

It's just a quirk of the part numbering system.

Speedy Jim
http://www.nls.net/mp/volks/

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:41:07 -0600 (Dennis Wik)
wrote:

>How did this
>number designation end up on the two different designs?

The 009 is just the last 3 digits. Distributors with different
kinds/combinations of advances are in different "families" which get
different numbers in front of the 009.

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Jim Adney
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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