Date:         Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:21:43 -0700
Reply-To:     Brent Christensen <brent@vanagon.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Brent Christensen <brent@vanagon.com>
Subject:      Fw: no spark
Comments: cc: Kihondachi@aol.com
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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
>