---------------------- Forwarded from www.vanagon.com ----------------------- Can anyone help this fellow Vanagonite? Please respond to him directly. Thanks Brent Christensen '89 GL Syncro Westy "Klaus" Santa Barbara, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: <Kihondachi@aol.com> To: <info@vanagon.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 7:04 PM Subject: no spark
> I have a 1985 Vanagon L. My dad was driving it one day, going up a fairly > steep incline hiway. As he was exitting, the van died. He thought he ran > out of gas. He tried a restart, but to no avail. We pulled it home , got > some gas and attempted to start it....the fuel engine cranked and cranked. I > check for fuel at the 'T' connection, it squirted....'checked the > plugs...they were wet....checked for spark..NO SPARK!! I swapped the > HALL unit, COIL, DISTRIBUTOR with known good units...no spark.....checked > wires, rotor, cap....no spark.....checked voltages at coil terminal 15 ...zero > with ignition off...8vdc with ignition on.....my other smae year vanagon had > 9vdc then jumped up to 13vdc after a couple of seconds. Could this be my > problem? PLEASE HELP! > > Jero > |
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