Date:         Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:22:10 -0800
Reply-To:     Mark Belanger <belanger@FLUID.COM>
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From:         Mark Belanger <belanger@FLUID.COM>
Organization: Fluid, Inc.
Subject:      Re: hall sender vs points
Comments: To: John Jensen <mudbug@TOAD.NET>
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You can still buy Hall Senders for the air-cooled engines and they're
designed to be reinstalled without removing the entire distributor.  The
Haynes manual has an extremely detailed walk-through and it involves a
couple of circlips and a pin.

Apparently, they're fairly reliable, though.  According to Peter at
VolksCafe, he sells close to twice as many ECUs and Hall Senders(if
memory serves).


FWIW
-MB

John Jensen wrote:
> I've never had a van before that had a hall sender, but now I do...my
> '80 Westy (now tentatively named "CreamPuff.")
>   Anyway, I'm wondering what the standard protocol for fall back is with
> these.  Do I carry a spare distributor, all set up to go?  Or what?
> I've been in the habit of keeping a few spare sets of points around.
> What goes bad on the Hall Unit?
>
> John Jensen, Mudbug Pottery
> mudbug@toadhouse.com , http://www.toadhouse.com
> '1980 Westfalia Vanagon

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