Ignition module access

[AutoAndy]

I have been asked the following by a S owner who does not have access to the Internet:

" Can you confirm if you have to remove the distributor to access the ignition module?" It is for an S3

I've never done it so can the collective advise?

[phillpot]

AutoAndy said:

" Can you confirm if you have to remove the distributor to access the ignition module?"

short answer is probably yes


Access at best is very tight, depending upon exact position of distributor, condition of engine mountings etc.

Held on by two screws with M6 heads, recessed in two very slim holes, I had to grind down a 1/4" drive socket to go in.


An option, rather than remove the dizzy, might be to carefully mark its position slacken clamp bolt and rotate it to get slightly better access to the little bolts?


Between the module and the dizzy body there should be a heat conductive paste, about the consistency of Vaseline, on mine it had dried out with age to something more like talcum powder!

[Ceejay73]

It's awkward and fiddly but I didn't disturb the distributor at all when I changed the ignition module.