Date:         Mon, 13 Sep 2004 07:54:18 -0700
Reply-To:     Joseph Fortino <fortino1@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joseph Fortino <fortino1@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: The "syndrome" solutions
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check to see if your injectors are flooding out the spark, this was my trouble and it
turned out to be ECU. BTW this took like a week for me to find after checking, air,spark,gas.
you name it. * grounds? clean? temp sensors?

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Aerowolf <aerowolf@GMAIL.COM>
Sent: Sep 13, 2004 7:43 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: The "syndrome" solutions

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.