Date:         Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:57:39 -0400
Reply-To:     Wolfgang Ziegler <ziegler@PRINCETON.WIRELINE.SLB.COM>
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From:         Wolfgang Ziegler <ziegler@PRINCETON.WIRELINE.SLB.COM>
Subject:      Re: bucking/ what fix
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Jason,

we had 'drop-outs' (0 rpm) during city or highway operation on two vans (87, 88) we owned, in both cases they were leaking antifreeze under the rear seat when I bought them. The warm humid environment corroded some of the pins on the Digifant unit to a point where the plating came off. I keep cleaning and spraying them with 'Deoxit' a compound which I have used on old connectors and switches for years - I use it on all connections in the van - in both cases I had no more drop-outs for years.
True 'stalling' (coasting to full stop, re-start engine) was occurring in heavy rain on a regular basis naturally while we were moving and needed to go hundreds of miles and no time to work on the car until the ignition coil shorted and I also changed the spark wire set.

Is the wire harness fix truly just a capacitor on the wiper to ground? which value??

good luck,
Wolfgang Ziegler

79 convert.
88 GL
00 Jetta

At 11:51 AM 9/12/00 -0400, you wrote:
>how many people have solved their bucking with the wiring harness?  how many
>have solved it other ways?