Date:         Sat, 1 Feb 2003 15:22:02 -0800
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Didn't start
Comments: To: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@hotmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <F176miiFmOOF44GGgx100004b05@hotmail.com>
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Hmm.

Maybe coil.  

I replaced the old coil and the new one wasnąt as strong as the old one so I
put back the old one.  Maybe the old one finally went phoomp.

Mike

On 2/1/03 2:27 PM, "Robert Keezer" <warmerwagen@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Mike-
> Without the shop anylyzer it really can be anything. My ECU, then my coil,
> went out. They were old, and expensive new.Many of us own these old cars
> becuase we can't afford new. And can't even afford parts, so they just keep
> getting older. Thats why i grab spares at the junkyards.
> 
> Coils intermittently cut out and stall your engine of make it not start, or
> they go aout all together. Never has it been what I and everyone else thinks-
> the fuel pump, relay, etc.
> 
> Why I didn't look at the coil first, I don't know.
> 
> If the problem goes away after you change the coil- it was the coil.
> 
> Coils are one thing that do wear out after 10 years.
> 
> Two months before the coil on my 82 went out, the coil on the 91 went out.
> 
> Both coils were 10 years old.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> Robert 
> 1982 Westfalia 
> 1987 Wolfsburg 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Mike Miller
> Reply-To: Mike Miller
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Didn't start
> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 14:09:37 -0800
> Volks, 
> Went to fill up at the local gas station and the engine on my '85 just
> barely caught, then quit and wouldn't restart.
> After about 40 minutes the van started and ran fine.
> Fuel pump relay 
> Main relay 
> Fuel pump 
> ? 
> Any really good ideas?
> Mike 
> 
> 
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