Date:         Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:18:47 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: 1991 Vanagon intermittent no start
In-Reply-To:  <757632.53144.qm@web51412.mail.yahoo.com>
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Sounds like the ignition switch to me. It's $12, not hard to put in.
There are good instructions in the archives. I just went through this
a few months ago. If the starter works fine when it starts, but not
when it doesn't want to start, it's probably not the starter. You
might look at engine ground connections, but I suspect the switch.

Jim
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On Mar 8, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Stephen Grisanti wrote:

> My '87 has done this occasionally since I got it last
> summer.  I suspect the ignition switch, for no
> particular reason that I can prove because I have not
> done any troubleshooting.  It always starts on the
> second try after failing to start once.  Sometimes
> I'll go 20 starts in a row with no problem and
> sometimes it will happen every fresh start.
>
> I'll be interested to hear what you find.
>
> Stephen
> --- Karen <gritis@VERIZON.NET> wrote:
>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> My daughter is using my vanagon while her 1989
>> Cabriolet is in the shop for body work.
>>
>> She's been having some trouble with an intermittent
>> no start issue.  The first time it happened was
>> after the ice and snow we had here in Northern
>> Virginia and the van had been sitting for about a
>> week.  She went to start and got nothing.  Took the
>> battery out and took it over to a FLAPS and they
>> said the battery was fine.
>>
>> Put the battery back in the van, we went over and
>> rolled the van forward a couple of feet (not a roll
>> start), then tried the ignition and it started.  It
>> did this again maybe 2 or 3 times in the 7 or so
>> days since.  This morning, it wouldn't start, she
>> tried to roll start, no go.  It's still sitting
>> there, not starting.  There's no grinding, almost no
>> noise, except what my husband says is the fuel
>> injectors.
>>
>> My husband thinks we should go buy another starter
>> and put it in and then see if it works.  Is there
>> any way to tell for sure that it's the starter
>> before laying out that much money, provided I can
>> even find one?  Any other possibilities we need to
>> rule out first?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Karen
>>
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