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Date:         Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:25:02 -0700
Reply-To:     Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Subject:      Re: troubleshooting intermittency
Comments: To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <379931.57944.qm@web110615.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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My intermittent no-start turned out to be a loose ground wire from the ICU. Stuff banging against it under the back seat must have taken their toll.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message----- |From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of |Stephen Grisanti |Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 6:44 PM |To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM |Subject: troubleshooting intermittency | |The semi-nagging no-start issue that finally seemed to become permanent two |weeks ago has again become intermittent.  I ordered some parts (fuel pump |relay and ignition switch electrical portion along with other spares, |anticipating one of those to be the issue) and while waiting for them to |arrive would occasionally try to start with no success.  Today I finally |got some time to work on the van (in the rain, natch) and, of course, it |fired right up. | |So now I guess I replace them anyway in hopes of fixing the problem, |keeping the old pieces as spares until it proves itself fixed or not. Since |I have the pieces it seems crazy not to use them but most of the |satisfaction of troubleshooting is finding out what the actual problem was |instead of solving the problem by throwing parts at it. | | |


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