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| L-Jet914 |
 May 28 2023, 03:16 PM
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For those of you who may have installed this Bosch Blue coil at some point and are using the coil bracket it comes with, I have found over the years it does stay put in the stock location of a 74 1.8 that is designed for the strap that latches into the engine case. I purchased a used coil strap recently only to find my original one when I wasn't looking for it haha, so now I have two. Anyways in order to make the stock ignition coil strap work with this Bosch Blue coil, I purchased a sheet of 3mm thick commercial neoprene rubber. I cut it to 32mm wide to allow the sheet to contact the engine case where the original coil rested against and cut it to length to wrap around the coil. The coil is now secured properly and is nice and snug with the new spacer. Please don't mind the state of my original engine firewall pad (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) . I'm still working on the ol girl. @StarBear - the picture I want to show you of what I did as I didn't see an option for photo attachment in the PMs.
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| porschetub |
May 28 2023, 10:40 PM
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QUOTE(L-Jet914 @ May 29 2023, 10:16 AM)  For those of you who may have installed this Bosch Blue coil at some point and are using the coil bracket it comes with, I have found over the years it does stay put in the stock location of a 74 1.8 that is designed for the strap that latches into the engine case. I purchased a used coil strap recently only to find my original one when I wasn't looking for it haha, so now I have two. Anyways in order to make the stock ignition coil strap work with this Bosch Blue coil, I purchased a sheet of 3mm thick commercial neoprene rubber. I cut it to 32mm wide to allow the sheet to contact the engine case where the original coil rested against and cut it to length to wrap around the coil. The coil is now secured properly and is nice and snug with the new spacer. Please don't mind the state of my original engine firewall pad (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) . I'm still working on the ol girl. @StarBear - the picture I want to show you of what I did as I didn't see an option for photo attachment in the PMs. I seem to remember the diameter is less than the stock black coil . |
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L-Jet914 Bosch Blue Coil and stock coil retaining strap May 28 2023, 03:16 PM
Dave_Darling That should work fine. The blue coil is just a li... May 28 2023, 03:47 PM StarBear Great! I have some material from an old yoga m... May 28 2023, 08:10 PM windforfun I put shrink tubing on the old bracket. May 28 2023, 08:14 PM
r_towle Duct tape May 29 2023, 06:45 PM |
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