Date:         Sat, 3 Jun 2000 07:09:12 -0400
Reply-To:     Tim <hanninkt@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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From:         Tim <hanninkt@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: '91 Syncro floods & dies, won't restart
Comments: To: Laurie Loeb <lloeb@ROF.NET>
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It sounds like the computer temperature sender, located under the bleeder
valve in the engine compartment. Next time your engine won't start, unplug
it and try to start the engine. I f this is the problem, it will start right
up. If it does, shut off the engine and reconnect it and it should start
again. I did this fro about 2 weeks until I replaced the sensor. Its a
$15.00 part, you can replace it in about 5 minutes.

Tim Hannink
Winter Park, Florida
1987 Westfalia Wolfsburg Camper
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurie Loeb" <lloeb@ROF.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 1:58 AM
Subject: '91 Syncro floods & dies, won't restart


> My '91 Syncro Westfalia has had a problem for three years that no VW
> mechanic has yet been able to figure out. It seems to occur only in warm
or
> hot weather. after driving for a moderate to long time, sometimes when I
> pullup to a stop sign the engine dies and won't restart. Or I will have
> driven around town starting and stopping the engine numerous times, and
and
> then all of a sudden after a stop, it won't start up again.
>
> After waiting 20-30 minutes it will almost always start again. It smells
> like it's flooded. Thre different mechanics have tried to replicate the
> problem without sucess, and nobody seems to know what's wrong. Mighty
> inconvenient to be stuck, especially when I'm out in some forsaken place
in
> Mexico!
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> --
>
> Laurie Loeb
> lloeb@rof.net
>
> "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Gandhi)
>
> "Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by
those
> who with open minds and hearts seek out connections." (Katherine Paterson)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Laurie Loeb
> lloeb@rof.net
>
> "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Gandhi)
>
> "Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by
> those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections." (Katherine
> Paterson)