I had a rat fink 1980 Westy that eluded me in every way. I had transplanted the entire ignition system and AFM, FI system from my 83 Westy and it ran great. The culprit was a bad rotor arm exacerbated by poor electrical connections on everything in the engine bay. Stan Wilder On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:16:04 -0800 Matt Ratto <mratto@UCSD.EDU> writes: > Hey Guys, I'm about to give up this project, or at least find some > mechanic > to figure out the problems I'm having. I've done just about > everything I can > think of and I still can't get it running. Before I was having a > problem > where I had to run it so rich to get it to idle, now after changing > the > distributor cap I can't get it to run at all. I'm finding myself > doing the > same things over and over again. I've touched about everything, > tested > almost everything (except, obviously the thing that's not working), > I'm > about out of time, and out of options. > > So, if any of you know a mechanic in San Diego (a traveling one > would even > be better) that you think would be willing to take a look, send an > email. I > really hate to give up the DIY part, but ah well, I guess my > inexperience > finally caught me in the end. > > Matt > ------------------------------------- > Matt Ratto > Ph.D. Candidate > University of California, San Diego > mratto@ucsd.edu > http://communication.ucsd.edu/mratto > -------------------------------------- > > ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com |
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