> New to the world of Vanagon's and I recently discovered that the hall sensor on > my '84 appears to be in pretty bad shape. ... A local VW shop > found one in their stock for like $280. With a price like that, I started looking > for whole distributors too, seems worth replacing after 36 years of service. But > they too seem in short supply. The distributors I found offered by Bus Depot & > Van-again are both out of stock and neither sell the hall unit Matt, welcome to the Vanagon List! We will have rebuilt distributors back in stock in about a week for $159 that include a hall sensor. We're just waiting for the rebuilder to finish rebuilding our cores. We'll have new Bosch ones in about 3 weeks for $299. You are right that it's not worth buying the hall sensor alone; they were discontinued long ago so people think the few that are left are worth their weight in gold. BTW. as a list member you are entitled to an additional 5% discount on most $5+ orders by using code list1e on checkout. This includes the rebuilt distributor, but not the new one as it's already on sale. Ron Salmon The Bus Depot BusDepot.com |
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