Date:         Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:18:11 -0500
Reply-To:     Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Distributor
Comments: To: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <C5AC9E3A.7813%mwmiller@cwnet.com>
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Mike,

I recommend either getting a new hall sensor ($125) or a rebuilt
distributor $259 plus a $77 core charge.  If you are handy you can
rebuild your own distributor and save some money with the hall sensor or
just buy the rebuild distributor, pop it in and send me back the old one
as a core.  The rebuilt ones are done by Bosch and look like a new
unit.  They come with a new distributor cap and rotor installed.  I have
some available in my California warehouse so it either would be there
quickly.  Just let me know.

Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com


Mike Miller wrote:
> Well,
>
> Thought it was the fuel pump on my 87 syncro. May have been but the
> distributor seems to becoming, uh, touchy.
>
> Car wouldn't start, no spark, touched the distributor and started right up.
> Missed, like total zero rpm, on a bumpy road then caught and kept going.
>
> Something loose on the distributor?
>
> Anybody got a good distributor for sale?
>
> I'm in the SF Bay area of California.
>
> Mike
>
>