Ken I am planning to look into the HallSensor possibility today ~ I'll post how it goes. ORR ~ DeanB On 25 Oct , 2012, at 4:08 AM, kenneth wilford (Van-Again) wrote: > I remember a van that had a problem with dying. I was > troubleshooting and > when I turned the key on the pump didnt do its 2 second run. I took > another distributor that I had and just plugged it in electrically > to the > hall sensor and then turned on the key. It did the pre run every > time I > would turn the distributor shaft a little with my fingers. Installed > distributor and that fixed it. > > I am 100% positive that this problem is the distributor (hall > sensor) or a > fault in its wiring. > > Ken Wilford > john 3:16 > www.vanagain.con > On Oct 24, 2012 3:56 PM, "mark drillock" <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote: > >> Ken, have you seen a case where a hall problem kept the fuel pump >> from >> running briefly at key on? If so it would be good to know that this >> could >> happen. >> >> Mark >> >> Ken Wilford wrote: >> >>> Sounds like the way my van behaved when the Hall Sensor in the >>> distributor went bad. I could restart it over and over but then it >>> would randomly die out. When it stopped it was like someone shut >>> the >>> key off, tach dropped to zero. >>> >> |
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