OK we have a winner well within spiting distance of the hall sender > On 10/2/06, TC <trclark@shaw.ca> wrote: > <SNIP tale of woe> > Check the plug where the the distributor hall effect sensor is plugged > in (on the distributor). These get old and brittle, break and let the > hall sensor short against the distributor casing. The conclusion So after it started up on the tow truck sunday night I bought a spare ICM and I already had a spare dist at home (note to self dont leave home without ALL yer spares :) so I just decided I'd drive it like normal untill i caught the SOB in the stall/no start act again so monday/tues it putters around town pretending all was good so tonight a block from the house i decided to petal to metal to stress test her yee ha not 1/4 block from the drive way tach drops like a rock stalls ... perrrrfect I got ya now plug in the icm still no start ... wip in the spare dist va voom done deal must be the hall sender ... but this is a old spare so i guess I'll rebuild this dist & put it back in then put the spare in the closet it was bought just in case ...:) |
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