Larry, according to the Bentley (and my own 85 Vanagon), it does indeed have a hall sensor and generator. Cheers, -Kyle
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:02:44 -0500, Larry Alofs <lalofs@rcn.com> wrote: > I have not had Hall sensor problems with a Vanagon, but I just went thru > it with a '94 Golf. This one would fail intermittently, which made it > so much more interesting to track down. On the Golf it doesn't kill the > engine, it just puts it into a default mode which was rich enough to > make it fail emissions testing. I finally caught it in the act using an > oscilloscope (not convenient on the road). You may be able to monitor > it with an LED. In the Golf, the ECU supplies +5 V and the Hall > circuitry in the distributor makes and breaks a connection to ground. I > don't know if the Vanagon approach is the same. > I don't even know if an '85 has a Hall sensor. > > good luck, > Larry A. |
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