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• Re: Real time help needed
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:17:45 -0700
  That is the point of my earlier described test of manually turning the distributor with it raised up a little. The turning hall feeds...
• Re: 82 won't start when hot was re:83' won't start when hot
  Historical mailing list - Higginbotham, David A.
  Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:48:25 -0400
  ...It is to laugh! Guess where I installed the temp sensor? YUP! In the hole in the tin between the distributor and the fan...
• Re: Help diagnose Cinco
  Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
  Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:45:04 -0800
  Thanks Roger, The problem is that I've already pulled the distributor, AND the drive gear, so I can't trust the drive gear...
• Re: Fridae Question about ignition timing..
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:38:20 -0700
  ...I'd |set the flywheel pulley mark at the right spot and then rotate the |distributor till the points were closed, insert the rolling...
• Re: Timing Issues
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sun, 29 Dec 2013 18:04:50 -0600
  ...the split >> in the case - and the distributor finger is set to the mark on the >> distributor case - how close is that to the...
• Re: Which bus hould I buy?
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Tue, 06 Feb 1996 09:20:00 -0800 (PST)
  ...heads, Solex 34PICT-3 carb, crappy restrictive bus muffler, vacuum-advance distributor, etc.-- all this was stock in '71. NOTE: My '71 bus has...
• Rev limits, definitive answer
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Thu, 23 Nov 2000 15:14:11 -0800
  ...is in the form of a > centrifugal switch built into the distributor rotor specified for this engine. > > Stuart, > > The more I think about this...
• Re: Update- rocky results, etc.
  Historical mailing list - Matt Sutton
  Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:19:06 -0400
  ...O2 sensor, AFM, Temp sender, Hall sender in the distributor, and eventually even the ECU. All to no avail, and boy was it expensive...
• Re: Failed Crankshaft seal yet again
  Historical mailing list - millo fenzi
  Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:19:25 -0800
  ...check to see if the crankcase breather hoses from the vent tower to the air intake distributor are sucked flat at 2500 rpm. Story...
• Re: Electrical connection prep.
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:07:21 -0700
  En route to BBTB, dirty contacts at distributor hall caused stalling engine cut out issues. I cleaned those contacts at the Auto Zone parking...
• Vanagon Flat Spot Woes (84, 1.9)
  Historical mailing list - Blake Sartin
  Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:38:23 -0400
  ...intake gaskets, refurbished the idle air valve, vacuum can on the distributor, every vacuum hose, and there's probably more. I just installed the...
• Re: Further Information
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 3 Aug 2011 19:02:25 -0700
  ...passageways on the passenger's side, and going over the brake > distributor. I tapped in for a pair to go over to the kitchen...
• Re: idle problems
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:11:30 -0400
  ...Make sure vacuum "retard" on distributor is working and throttle closes far enough to get manifold vacuum to fully retard the timing with throttle...
• Idle and Timing
  Historical mailing list - Mike Plickys
  11 Jan 95 21:53:21 EST
  ...The van seems to run better when the distributor is turned counter clockwise, but is this causing it to run richer? My compression appears...
• Missing Problem on Ljet Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Ken Korn
  Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:45:15 -0500
  ...I have an 82 Vanagon Westfalia camper with the 2.0 Ljet aircooled engine.The engine is a California spec with Hall distributor. It...
• Re: Propane fill valve / Euro American RV products
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:56:21 -0400
  ...I'm a distributor for Euro American/Delta Six, and Pete's items are also on my website. Regarding the auto stop fill valve...
• Adding twin carbs to 1600 aircooled
  Historical mailing list - Phil Marston
  Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:21:10 -0000
  ...At present the engine is completely standard apart from an 009 distributor with pertronix ignition. I also intend to fabricate a better flowing exhaust...
• Setting timing on '85
  Historical mailing list - Peter Krogh
  Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:09:53 EDT
  ...Pull idle stabilizer plugs and plug together Pull distributor vacume lines Clamp induction wire on spark plug lead (which one) Shine on pulley. What...
• Re: Turns over/won't start
  Historical mailing list - Hans Brouwer
  Tue, 11 Sep 2001 23:04:37 -0400
  ...I fiddled with the engine too and I diagnosed it to a faulty hall sender in the distributor. Ken Wilford sells the hall sender...
• Re: Simple tire qurestion
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:29:36 -0800
  ...You will need to ask tire manufacturer to provide the ply-rating information as it is not commonly available from distributors and dealers. Good...
• Weird ignition timing - '85 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Jay Brown
  Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:11:51 -0400
  I recently replaced the distributor on my '85 Westy (stock 1.9L) since my old one had a broken connector where the Hall unit...
• Re: Vanagon ?Previa?
  Historical mailing list - chris and/or ruth
  Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:45:01 -0700
  ...She did, after a year and a half have some msifiring due to a simple distributor cap issue........ and some cat problems,............and the...
• FW: start - won't start - solution
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:46:12 -0700
  ...Did you reinstall them in the correct positions? Have you fiddled around with the distributor? Sounds to me like a timing problem. History: why...
• Gerbil engine replacement, part III
  Historical mailing list - Dieter Dworkin Muller
  Fri, 05 Jul 1996 23:59:48 -0600
  This morning started with the intention of putting on the fuel pump, generator stand, and distributor before breaking for lunch. As with everything else...
• Re: Help with Timing of Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:33:46 -0500
  ...In fact, the more I move the timing BTDC (Rotate distributor counterclockwise) the better the engine runs. Eventually the distributor hits a side and...
• Re: diesel-gas conversion problems solved! (mostly)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 1 Feb 2003 00:29:56 -0500
  ...Since this system is all hydraulic, if it gets air-bound after the fuel distributor, the engine can be hard to start. Fuel pressure...
• Re: Sherri the Skylight Gal broken down in Lodi, CA
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 26 Jul 2015 23:52:50 -0400
  ...Jason Newton has spoken to her; they think her distributor rotor is shorting to ground. Anyone nearby Chehalis with a cap and rotor could...
• 87 2.1 dies after 30 seconds
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Duvernay
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:10:31 -0600
  ...Grounds are clean Temp sensors and oil pressure sensors( new o2 sensor going in this weekend) entire ignition system is good (timing, coil, distributor...
• Computer-matched interior spray paint
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:44:55 -0600
  ...And then there's the black heater cover/distributor that I've been wanting to match for years. On a tip from my VW...
• six guys update
  Historical mailing list - Ted Titcomb
  Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:04:53 -0400
  ...He readjusted to .018" and re-timed the distributor by ear. Early reports of the results are good. No immediate signs of bucking, and...
• Re: Hall sffect sender/ engine in '90 Vanagon cutting out
  Historical mailing list - Dave Bayer
  Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:37:05 -0700
  KENWILFY@AOL.COM wrote: > This is a nice alternative to > buying a whole new distributor (which is what most shops, etc will tell you...
• Re: try again
  Historical mailing list - Cooper, Jonathan R.
  Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:57:28 -0500
  ...Noticed one terminal on the distributor cap was highly corroded (front left cyl nearest driver). Replaced the cap with a new one ~ one month...
• Honda Problem
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:20:56 EST
  ...This engine uses a distributor cap with a built in coil. The cap was relaced, along with plug wires and plugs last year. Anybody...
• Re: VDO sump plug sender
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:58:58 -0700
  ...If there's one that directly replaces >the drain plug on a Vanagon, my VDO distributor doesn't know it, because >I've asked...
• Re: Fw: coolant distribution part
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:24:32 EDT
  In a message dated 7/23/01 11:28:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time, george_caldwell@JUNO.COM writes: << The coolant distributor on my...
• Possible SALE/TRADE
  Historical mailing list - PlayDoh
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:36:15 -0400
  ...new battery, plugs, distributor cap & rotor, tires have approx 8k miles on them, and recently installed the driving lights to better improve night vision...
• Experience with sway bars
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:04:26 -0700
  ...Addco (http://www.addco.net/products/volkswagen.shtml) sells both front and rear, and has several distributors here in the west, including Les Schwab...
• Re: Tune up?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Mon, 13 Jan 2003 06:51:36 -0500
  ...It occurred to > me that > I hadn't changed the plugs or distributor cap and rotor for about > 20k miles. > How often do you...
• 84 Westy won't start warm
  Historical mailing list - T. Shepherd
  Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:41:05 -0400
  ...My mechanic replaced the distributor cap and wires and the problem seemed to be fixed, but now I find that the engine will not...
• Smells like fuel -- wet spot on cold head
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:44:39 -0700
  ...It's the paired hoses that bring air from the intake air distributor to the heads. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2...
• Re: Technical question re: Injector firing signal
  Historical mailing list - B.J.R.
  Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:35:08 -0700
  ...I believe it had ignition just fine, but since the ECU couldn't tell the distributor and engine were turning, it wouldn't run...
• Re: 40 minutes drive and then cuts out.
  Historical mailing list - Zolly
  Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:42:37 -0700
  ...40 minutes drive and then cuts out. > Zoltan, > I am betting on the Hall Effect Sensor in the distributor. It's signal > tells > the...
• Re: 1.9ltr vanagon timing help needed.
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:31:46 -0400
  ...Your timing can't change unless you change it by moving the distributor so you can't go from a good running van to...
• Re: Minimum spares kit. Was: Alternator Brushes Wore Out Pretty Darn Quick
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:13:30 -0700
  ...and not one of them has the felt pad under the distributor rotor serived with some fine oil... the oil in that felt pad...
• Re: Fwd: [WetWesties] Hall Sender Broken, Puget Sound Area
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Sat, 28 May 2011 09:10:29 -0700
  ...Just wrapped some thin wire around the distributor to hold the plastic plug in place. Tom Young ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL...
• Re: ignition woes
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:54:38 -0500
  ...Lack of maintenance and possibly bad distributor bushings burned up the rotor which contributed to bad running and a no start. The 25 amp...
• Re: some notes from counterman mag
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:31:48 +0100
  ...some notes from counterman mag > Years back when I worked for Borg Warner Ignition Division we had annual > obsolescence returns from each distributors stock...
• Re: Help please?
  Historical mailing list - David Maurio
  Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:51:55 -0400
  ...cap is nearest the main engine pulley, directly above the distributor tightening nut below. Starting there, be sure the wires on the distributor, in...
• Re: Good Price on 1.9l heads?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:31:13 -0400
  ...auto parts distributors) does not actually buy the fully assembled head from AMC, only the bare head. Then they assemble it themselves, using parts...
• Re: Grills, grills, grills
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:25:18 -0700
  ...TF distributors aren't falling all over Bell Industries offering > a discount? LOL. > > All I can say, aside from the obvious potential draw back...
• Re: Stuck in Needles, need advice
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:52:32 -0500
  ...Thinking of having a new ecu and hall sender and/or distributor fedex'd. .but kind of a crapshoot. Any advice appreciated. David Sent...
• Vanagon-Bug Motor Parts (shared)
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 1 Dec 1994 10:07:40 -0500
  ...between the waterboxer and the Type 1 engine including cam, crankshaft, distributor, oil pump and rocker arms." This sentence sounds like an outrageous assertion...
• Speed
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Dec 1995 14:27:29 -0800
  ...This was a stock engine with the exception of an 009 distributor running at 9 degrees BTDC. In my '63 bus with an 1835...
• Re: Split fires
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn
  Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:57:33 -0700
  ...They say the improve performance & milage? Well, whatever anyone can >tell me-I'd appreciate it! > > My concern would be with the distributor whose...
• New To List
  Historical mailing list - Ben Wampler
  Sun, 25 Apr 1999 22:36:39 -0500
  ...I can replace shocks, exhaust systems, fuel lines, replace distributors, fuel pumps, set timings, etc), how hard of a job would this be for...
• Redline Gearoil properties
  Historical mailing list - Dom
  Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:21:30 +1000
  ...I have visited the redline website and find that the Australian distributor is in Western Australia. Unfortunately, that is across one of the largest...
• Re: how did this happen ... ?
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:37:36 EST
  ...Write on the distributor and the corresponding wire end. The other end I put one wire tie(zip style) on the number one wire...
• Re: Questions about crossing the border into Canada with rebuilt engines to show and maybe sell
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:39:14 -0500
  thanks to you both for your time I would be bringing in engines to show distributors these would be resold does that matter. what...
• Re: John Muir
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Fri, 10 May 2002 09:43:43 -0500
  I sent a procedure to get the distributor drive out with a pencil while stationed in Italy with limited resources - we certainly didn't...
• Re: 88 Vanagon Rotor Replacement
  Historical mailing list - Ben McCafferty
  Tue, 31 Dec 2002 08:11:28 -0700
  ...88 Vanagon Rotor Replacement > > My 88 Westy has a very burnt distributor cap (inside) and the rotor doesn't > look much better. > > Replacing the...