Date:         Mon, 23 Jan 1995 08:02:09 -0800 (PST)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Steve Johnson <sjohnson@pcocd2.intel.com>
Subject:      71 Westy that won't start

So Jay-If I only had a brain.. says:
> back the Westy wouldn't start via the starter but would pop start. So I parked 
> her, planed on 
> working on it, and never got around to it until now. So here is what I did. I 
> rebuilt the carb (solex 
> 34pict3), put on a new cap, points, (why is it plural when there is only one?) 
> and rotor. Drained the 
> old gas and poured in some new stuff, and put a new/rebuilt starter in the old 
> girl.
> recent collage graduate, soon to be vagrant :-)

Well Jay, quite simply, If I had the problem you're having, I'd just start
by picking up my copy of John Muir's "How To Keep Your VW Alive!" and flip
to the procedure that covers the VW not starting.  It gives a good step-
by-step procedure of diagnosing the possible causes for not starting/
not running.  I'd go through it till I found the problem.  


Steven

sjohnson@pcocd2.intel.com