Vac advance 009?

Nov 21, 2004 4 Replies

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

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Speedy Jim

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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?

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

Speedy Jim

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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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