Very, very important. Otherwise the van can run so rich that the engine and exhaust system fill up with carbon and the engine stops. Cheers, Tom Neal On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Ratjen wrote: > The black connector on the distributor housing needs to be straight. > Sometimes the clips inside the distributor which hold it in place break. As > the connector sags it can create shorts underneath the hall sender. This > leads to occasional stuttering and is usually difficult to trace because it > is irregular. It can be mistaken for other bad connections or water in the > fuel. > > Solution 1: replace connector (you have to take out the whole hall unit and > readjust timing later) > > Solution 2: take a couple of drops of 2 component epoxy and glue the > connector in place from the inside of the distributor. Clean and degrease > parts first. > > Björn > > --- Jeff Gilbert <jeff_gilbert@PEOPLESOFT.COM> wrote: > > What kind of symptoms would one expect from a > > shorted/inconsistent Hall > > Sender? Mine's a little suspect, broken where it > > attaches to the Disto, > > had to do a little rewiring in there as well. > > > Björn Ratjen > Mill Bay, B.C. > > 1987 Vanagon est alia (self camperized) > 1978 VW Bulli (self camperized) > 1995 Passat TD Wagon (hers) > 1970 VW Beetle (son's) > |
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