Thanks everyone for your suggestions! Wanted to provide some more information as my cryptic message from last night was a result of me being pretty tired worked on it for six hours with no real conclusions. I was backing it up last week and it just stopped - tried to resart no go. There is lots of spark, lots of fuel pressure, it turns over every time. The injectors are just not firing, changed out the ECU, no change; checked the AFM, it appears to be working. There is something wrong with the electrical current getting to the injectors - which I thought was controlled by the ECU. When you ground the light to test the FI electrical connection and try to start you get the pulsing light, when you connect the ground to one of the two FI connections and try to test no pulsing light.
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of ROBERT O UELTZEN Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 1:48 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Will not start question Along with all the other possibilities mentioned, you might check the ignition switch. I was having an intermittent no start and engine dying condition on a 91 Jetta. Eventually, I worked back to the ignition switch. Upon opening up the switch, I found corroded contacts. A new switch solved the problem. Rob, the old kayaker |
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