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Date:   Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:14:57 -0400
Reply-To:   David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:   David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:   Re: Won't start...
Comments:   To: Bassim Dowidar <handfulofdimes@YAHOO.COM>
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at 08:23 PM 8/3/2001, Bassim Dowidar wrote: >So, >got home from work. Van has been running fine. went >out to move it out of the way and it won't start - the >white light on the dash is blinking,

What white light? Where? In what way is it blinking? What year is the van?

> the engine won't >turn over but is making clicking noises from either >the coil (i think that's the coil - left side of >engine compartment - cylinder)

Yup -- but if it's clicking, call the fire department or the bomb squad.

>or the relay above it

That makes more sense -- two relays in that box.

>but no juice to the starter. trying to get out of town >for the weekend. Help! Oh, and a really weird noise is

Don't know an easy fix -- someone is going to have to trace through the wiring and find out what's going on. Could well be a bad ignition switch.

david

David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation"


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