Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:43:23 -0400
Reply-To: Ken Lewis <kdlewis@NORTHSTATE.NET>
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From: Ken Lewis <kdlewis@NORTHSTATE.NET>
Subject: Re: 40 minutes drive and then cuts out.
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Zoltan,
I am betting on the Hall Effect Sensor in the distributor. It's signal tells
the ECU to activate the fuel pump. Use a clamp-on timing light to test for
spark. Absence of spark would collaborate this suspicion.
Ken Lewis
http://neksiwel.20m.com/
in statu viae
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zolly" <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] 40 minutes drive and then cuts out.
> After about 45 min running idle, it stopped. Fuel press. was down to 15.
> Turning ignition on did not activate the pump.
> I changed the 24 relays, no difference. Put in a different computer,
> same.
> I was working on it fast but not fast enough to have maybe enough time
> lapse
> that it would start again anyway. Nevertheless, I cleaned up the frame
> and
> the end of the ground wire and put a new SS screw in there. Then it
> started.
> Now, I'm not sure whether it would have started again anyway or not as it
> has cooled down by that time. But it's running now and I put back all the
> original 24 relays and the computer.
> Holding fingers.
> Germany won against Urugway.
> Zoltan
>
> OOOops, it has just stopped. I'll go and see what it is.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 1:09 PM
> Subject: Re: 40 minutes drive and then cuts out.
>
>
>>I just fixed, pretty sure, intermittent no-start on a 1.9 waterboxer...
>> was running and starting just fine.
>> then wouldn't start..
>> found no ignition..
>> then a while later , it had ignition.
>> put in a different distributor ..
>> fixed.
>> bad hall unit is my thinking.
>>
>> I put a fuel pressure gauge on a long hose to the front so I could watch
>> it.
>> this van has 30 psi fuel pressure on it for hours after shutting it off.
>> Like it should.
>>
>> think about the distributor or connections to it, grounds, and hall
>> sender
>> inside the distributor.
>> Scott
>> www.turbovans.com
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Zolly" <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 12:07 PM
>> Subject: 40 minutes drive and then cuts out.
>>
>>
>> I am puzzled and baffled. The engine is 2.1L, the system is for the 1.9
>> engine, digijet. I have checked with the digitool all the possible
>> items. Also checked fuel pressure, fuel pump ground.
>> After driving for 40 minutes, it cuts out and would not start anymore.
>> Feels like it wants to, but like there is not enough fuel. After 20
>> minutes it cools down and drives again for a short while. I'm at the
>> end of my wits. It looks like, it must be some electrical item's
>> failure.
>> Anyone has an idea?
>> Zoltan
>
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