On 11/20/05, Kurt Camealy <camealy@ctsr.com> wrote: > > I have been having a weird problem the past couple weeks. I will be > going down the freeway and all the sudden lose all power and my tach > goes to zero. It kicks right back in after a second or two? It has > only happened a few times, but I would like to track it down before it > dies on the freeway and the tach doesn't come back up. > I'd say it's likely an intermittent electrical connection somewhere. Since the tach zeroes and the engine stumbles, I'd start at the hall sender and work my way back to the ECU from there. Bentley has procedures for checking that stuff. Check grounds too, while you're at it. I'd be more specific, but I don't know what engine you have (other than it's probably not a 1.6diesel, as you say you drive it on the freeway). -- John Bange '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger" |
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