Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:46:20 -0800
Reply-To: Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM>
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From: Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM>
Subject: Re: Wierd (Ignition?) Problem...
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Kurt,
I've seen this one many time and it sure sounds like the hall sender in the
dizzy. Especially since it works again once it cools down a little. I
remember watching a Russian mechanic poor a glass of cold water over the
distributor on a non running car. It immediately started and ran for about
5 minutes before all the spark went away. A bit crude? Yes. But the best
example I've ever seen of how hall senders can stop whilst when hot.
Cheers,
Jeff
www.vanagonparts.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Kurt Camealy
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:57 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Wierd (Ignition?) Problem...
Well, now I am revisiting the problem below due to it getting worse.
Now I will be driving (especially if it just rained or it is very humid)
and all the sudden the tach zeroes and the engine is dead. Even with
the car still in gear and rolling it will not start back up. I pull to
the side of the road and after 20 minutes of periodic trying to start it
will fire right back up. This is happening multiple times per week now.
I checked all the wiring and grounds and can't find the problem. I even
have remote start installed and that doesn't work so it isn't the
ignition switch. The Distributor is original with 209,000 miles on it
so I might suspect that, but I would hate to shell out 200 dollars to
find out it is my ignition control module or computer. I also have
never been in a situation to run the Bentley tests during the 20 minutes
of the engine being dead.
Thanks for any additional insight,
Kurt
87 Wolfsburg GL
Columbus, OH
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of John Rodgers
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 12:11 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Wierd (Ignition?) Problem...
That sounds like a problem with the Hall Sender. It could be as simple
as a wire in the system losing contact momentarily, to the Hall Unit
actually becoming faulty. Cheapest route to start is to check out all
the wiring first, including the quality of grounding points. You may
have some corrosion building somewhere or a wire working loose.
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Kurt Camealy 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.
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>Thanks all,
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>Kurt
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