Date:         Thu, 15 Dec 2016 23:56:42 -0700
Reply-To:     OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      NoStart to Remember
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        Been struggling, LongDistance, for a couple of weeks with helping a Fellow Vanagonaut in SantaFe NM to

get His 87Westy to Start ~ It died on Him luckily very close to His home & was able to coast it to His Driveway ~

It would Crank but Not FireUp ~ It had been doing some Stumbling @ Idle & Hesitations & Weakish Acceleration

on Starts From Stops ~  

        He is Newish to Vanagon Ownership & is getting a bit of the IndoctrinationTour ~ He got a Very Nice/Clean

LowMile 84Kish Van & it's a Van I've actually known for a couple of years as the PO was a fairly close neighbor who

was also a Vanagon Newby/Wanaby that got a GoodDeal, worked some Bugs out (with My help) that it had acquired

as it had been parked for a bunch of years & then decided to sell ~ 

        So I talked Him through Diag' Process & everything seemed to CheckOut Just Fine ~ But No FireUp ~ Finally

yesterday I got some time, threw a bunch of SpareParts & Tools in My VDubaru & headed Up to SF ~ To make this

LongStory Shorter, it turned out to be a WeakCoil ~ It was getting a consistent Spark to All4 but apparently not a

a GoodEnough Spark to Fire the Fuel ~ So that is the Part to Remember ~ Just because You Have Spark it Doesn't

Necessarily Mean You Have a Properly Functioning Coil ~

                                                                                        ORR ~ DeanB