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Date:         Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:16:54 -0700
Reply-To:     Stephen Engel <sengel543@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Stephen Engel <sengel543@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Broken down travelers need help ASAP
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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Bravo David! That'll get you a nomination for this years' Knight in Shining Armor Award for sure (if such a thing exists).

Steve 87 Syncro GL

-------------------------------------------- On Sat, 8/17/13, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

Subject: Re: Broken down travelers need help ASAP To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Saturday, August 17, 2013, 12:34 AM At 02:19 PM 8/16/2013, OlRivrRat wrote: >        Could it be a "D15" issue ~ or Malfunctioning CurrentSupplyRelay in >the BlackBox above the Coil > > >ORR ~ DeanB There were a bunch of things it wasn't, but changing the ECU fixed it.  Unfortunately the bad ECU worked fine in my van, and still worked fine when we put it back where it came from. It was a disintegrated ground connection to the ECU.  A PO had extended the ECU ground by about seven inches so it could be cabled along with the rest of the harness, using two insulation-displacing connectors of the type invented by 3M (but not actual 3M ones).  One of them was running warm and the other had completely melted out the plastic around the metal insert and the connection had failed. An iatrogenic** problem was caused by exercising the connection to the Hall sender on the distributor -- the last six inches of the wires to the connector had become brittle and broke into many small segments, damaging the + and - wires leading into the connector; and we ended up having to heat and strip the brittle insulation with a torch and build a scaffold to support the damaged wires out to where good wire could be spliced in.  Bill's got a couple photos.  It's a work of art, for some value of "art". They're running and sounding good. **That's a fancy name for going into a hospital well and coming out sick, so to speak. Yours, David


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