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• Re: I'm stumped! (misfire)
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Sat, 23 May 1998 10:21:29 -0500
  -------------------------- Hi Tom, After thinking about this for a bit I like your coil suggestion. This is one of those that could be much easier...
• Re: NAPA Load levelers coil-over springs for 2wd
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:14:12 -0700
  > > Also from the text its says these are Monroe coil/shocks does any real > parts > > guys know how > > to translate the NAPA number to...
• black box above coil
  Historical mailing list - Sidney White
  Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:29:35 EDT
  what is this part? on a 1987, i opened it up and saw 2 relays. Could these affect my poor running condition.
• Problem with Stancor 120-901 relay??
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:10:40 -0400
  ...Caution must be used in coil selection for use in 12 volt systems where battery charging may expose coil to continuous, higher-than-rated...
• Re: High voltage havoc from coil?
  Historical mailing list - Karen Olson
  Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:20:59 -0800
  ...High voltage havoc from coil? > At 03:44 PM 1/15/2001, Karen Olson wrote: > >When coils go bad, could the high voltage built...
• Re: Koni or Bilsteins
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Wed, 9 Feb 2005 07:08:03 -0800
  ...and if they're > > > coilovers, like their bike dampers... > > > >First of all, no, they're not coil-overs. Secondly, while user-adjustability > >without removal...
• Re: Booster heater? was- idea?
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:43:35 +0000
  ...coil either underneath after removing the POS booster > >> heater or > >> in the area above or around the transaxle ? Will need fans for each > >> coil. > >> > > > > > >
• Re: Odd Intermittent Source
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:01:20 -0700
  ...Because of the horizontal forward facing > position of the coil, every time I slammed the rear hatch (bottom of the > ketchup bottle, so to...
• Extra Vanagon Cooling
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:12:21 -0500
  ...This added coil brings my 912e A/C temps down to 34 degrees out all the underdash ports once the system starts getting a...
• Re: New Tech. in Old Applications.
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 14 May 2000 00:17:43 -0400
  ...The only thing left of the stock ignition would be the coil...it's certainly possible that a different coil would be optimum. If...
• Re: New engine start-up, help a brother out
  Historical mailing list - Motlagh, John N [GMG]
  Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:29:31 -0500
  Thanks for the tip!! I got the coil thing, what's an AFM, will I know it when I see it? John N. Motlagh...
• Re: Coilspring cutoff
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:17:30 EDT
  ...They are small clamps that pinch your coils together. Drive Safely & Good Luck Ken Lewis<Kernersville,NC> On Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:22...
• My EB Breakdown Story Continues...
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Stewart
  Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:25:07 -0400
  ...I was about to give up and walk back home to get the old coil when it started. Drove around for about 15 minutes...
• 88 van - 2.1 L WBX
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:42:14 -0500
  ...No fire from coil to distributor. Used the engine analyser I got from Van Cafe. That is sweet and worth having. Ultimately all indicators...
• Re: 2.1 idling @ 2200, stumbling, etc, where do I start?
  Historical mailing list - Raymond Paquette
  Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:57:42 -0400
  ...when I removed the coil bracket to check out the coil, I thought I remembered a ground on the lower bolt. But when I...
• Oil drain plug and Heli-coil
  Historical mailing list - Alan Bosch
  Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:58:02 -0500
  ...there's a heli-coil in the hole, as I found out over the weekend, and the copper crush washer used with the drain...
• A good day for trouble shooting and wrenching.
  Historical mailing list - Walter Evens
  Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:09:33 -0800
  ...6 of my Bentley) it appears that you connect your meter to a tab on the left and also the center coil wire tower...
• Re: ride height adjustment? (long post)
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:55:11 -0400
  I know that if you talk to a Bilstein representative, they can fit you with a coil-over setup of the proper length, and...
• Re: tach connection
  Historical mailing list - Leon
  Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:29:35 -0700
  I am sure this was done a few times just need to find out what coil terminal to use for tach signal TIA Leon
• Re: Is ECU involved in getting power to fuel pump when turning ignition switch on?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:08:15 -0400
  ...Basic ignition coil operation even back to points. Points closed or ECU conducting, coil is charging, magnetic field builds. Points open or ECU opens...
• Re: '86 Westy cranking trouble
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:53:16 -0700
  ...Also, realize that the green wires to/from the coil are for ignition pulses not power. Your use of a jumper wire to test...
• DAS BOOT HAS ENGINE RUNNING!!!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Hall
  Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:45:01 -0600
  ...Disconnected pin 17 wire to ISCU on coil? Is this bad? Closed loop? 3. What caused pin 17 wire on coil to kill the...
• Re: Compression test - cold engine or warm engine? PLUS USED CAR BUYERS TIP!
  Historical mailing list - Stuart Fedak VE3SMF
  Sun, 2 Jun 2013 06:58:38 -0700
  ...Remove the high tension (coil) wire from the distributor cap and connect to a known good ground to avoid spark discharge, or disconnect coil...
• Re: Bad coil? Car dead at walmart
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:08:35 -0700
  ...The car was running perfectly on the way > there. > > Is this likely the coil? How do I test it? How do I get to...
• Re: Bentley wiring typo?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 9 Aug 2008 21:40:05 -0700
  ...switch to the coil, is > a smaller gauge than what is used by the Jetta coil ( I installed a > 2.0 Jetta engine), I...
• Re: Vana's Blues
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:50:52 -0500
  I believe it was a Bosch Coil - although I could be wrong it was a few weeks ago and my brain is a little...
• Re: Tachometer help!
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Mon, 11 Feb 2002 07:22:57 EST
  ...My personal experience with my '85 1.9L Automatic is you gotta run the green wire from the coil to the big connector up...
• Re: Help!! in big trouble with Jetta GLi ignition system
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:09:58 -0800
  Is the coil receiving primary voltage? Connect a test lamp between #1 on the coil and ground, turn the starter and the test lamp...
• Re: digijet tool testing
  Historical mailing list - Scarlett Semko
  Sun, 2 Aug 1998 21:58:30 -0400
  ...We seemed to be missing coil pulses with the > tool installed . I had wired the digijet tool coil LED the same as the > digifant...
• Re: 1.9L Gutless when first started
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:39:27 -0400
  ...I would include the coil in this. It seems to me that if the coil is bad, it's bad all the time, but...
• Re: noise SOLVED. Now need to Helix-Coil?
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:33:13 -0400
  ...Now need to Heli-Coil? > > Robert Fisher was right. > > Two of the transmission mount bolts weren't properly tightened. > > They weren't really loose...
• FS: Starter, ECU, Coil
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Sat, 16 Apr 2005 09:49:25 -0700
  ...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7967943986 Bosch Coil from '88 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7967974856...
• Re: 84 Westy Gas Mileage?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 19 Sep 1996 07:22:07 -0400
  Eric, It may be that the coil in the air cooled engine couldnt take the additional resistance (if any) of the plugs? Ed
• Re: Westies at Watkins
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Sun, 7 Oct 2007 01:38:12 -0400
  The three rx7 coilpacks I ordered aren't here yet, so I won't be coming up after all :( Have fun up there! Sudhir
• Re: 88 GL - Failure to start - The Saga Continues
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:47:51 -0400
  ...You could have a loose wire on the coil. I know you just replaced it but recheck the wire connections there. I have had...
• Air Suspension Meeting
  Historical mailing list - Buettner, Peter
  Tue, 23 May 2000 09:19:11 -0700
  ...Auxiliary air suspension This system does not replace the coil springs, instead air bags are installed inside the coil springs. The pressurized air bag...
• Re: Is ECU involved in getting power to fuel pump when turning ignition switch on?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:51:13 -0700
  Hi Coil terminal 15 of course is the 'ignition on' 12volts DC , terminal of course. On a coil system terminal # 1 is connected to...
• Re: stripped oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:00:28 -0800
  Heli coils are great but by his description it sounds like what he did was round off the drain plug rather than strip the...
• Re: 88GL - Intermittent Failure to Start Continues
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Sun, 8 Jun 2014 19:56:53 -1000
  ...those tests on coil and hall sender are not very difinitive IMO. I wouldn't dream of not having a know-good distributor on...
• Re: Van cuts out
  Historical mailing list - Jere & Beth Hawn
  Mon, 28 May 2001 22:02:14 -0700
  ...ignition coil and ECU. I'll probably give these a try this week. When I looked at Bus depot for an ignition coil, it...
• Re: 87 Misfires when damp
  Historical mailing list - robert shawn feller
  Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:01:02 -0400
  ...Also why just > replace things that you haven't inspected? If the plugs are fine, why > replace them? Same for the coil and wires...
• Re: Van turns but won't fire
  Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
  Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:53:39 -0700
  ...bad HT lead, cracked cap or rotor, bad coil, bad points, bad condenser, no volts to coil, broken point plate ground wire, shorting points...
• Re: Heli-Coil an Engine Oil Drain?
  Historical mailing list - Barry Muller
  Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:37:41 -0700
  ...ongoing > problem of cleaning up the threads of where the heli > coil once was, > there is an easy answer and it's short and...
• Re: Mystery Electrical Trouble
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 29 Jul 2002 22:09:18 -0400
  Any chance you can get a two-channel scope and hang one channel on the hall output and the other on the coil secondary...
• Re: Broken down travelers need help ASAP
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:17:26 -0400
  ...Replaced coil with new Bosch > one and installed a new rebuilt distributer. Still no spark out of coil. > Have > battery voltage on black wire...
• Re: Air cooled versus water box or injectors
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 8 Mar 2015 19:16:42 -0400
  ...The air cooled injectors have 4 ohm coils and there is a resistor as part of the circuit. The water boxer injectors have 16...
• Re: FI help - SHE RUNS!!
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 5 Oct 1996 11:59:27 -0400
  ...Jeff Diebolt gets the kewpie doll; he mentioned the FI connection at the coil and a light went on in my head (finally!). I...
• Air Lift springs
  Historical mailing list - Rich Propsom
  Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:21:32 -0600
  ...At least in the 82 there is this bumper thing that is inside of the coil. There is only about 3 inches between the...
• Re: tachometers
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Sat, 2 Mar 2002 21:25:25 -0700
  ...The + coil terminal will be the one that goes to the distributor. I ran my wire on the inside of the van, but it...
• Re: I Love My New Cruise Control (Long)
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Tue, 6 Jun 2006 23:16:53 -0700
  RE: Success With Cruise Control Glad to hear you got it working. Interesting that you can run it off the coil....
• NVC - ...but HELP anyway
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:51:56 -0600
  ...My brother in Congress, AZ asks: "Has anybody had experience with electronic ignition such as Comp-u-fire, the one with a coil, and...
• Re: Is ECU involved in getting power to fuel pump when turning ignition switch on?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:54:25 -0400
  Terminal #1 of the coil does get battery voltage. The ECU switches the path to the chassis in response the hall sensor. Basic ignition...
• Re: Help! Won't Start
  Historical mailing list - Don & Christina Preston
  Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:52:50 -0800
  ...I have my Digitool hooked up and it shows that the Injectors and the coil aren't firing. Did I forget something? I've...
• Re: Survey--shower mod
  Historical mailing list - Steven Denis
  Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:58:03 EST
  ...that holds 15 gallons h2o or so. >> they make hot water coils to fit in a standard water heater (mostly for marine use..run...
• Heli-Coil tap and drill size needed as soon as poss
  Historical mailing list - John Clemens
  Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:56:42 -0700
  ...I've tried the heli-coil web site which is totally worthless, unless someone knows what drill size "Q" means, or tap size "2087...
• Resistance of Coil Wire?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:03:07 -0700
  Page 28.31 of Bentley's says that the resistance of the wire between the ignition coil and the distributor should read 2000 ohm...
• Re: Vana's Blues
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:23:45 -0500
  I just had to replace my coil. I was able to find one at the local Autozone (beleive it or not) for around $45...
• Re: Vanagon dead at walmart--not the coil after all
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:46:36 -0700
  ...Vanagon dead at walmart--not the coil after all > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans > <scottdaniel@turbovans.com...
• dwell
  Historical mailing list - jeff crane
  Sat, 13 May 2000 22:54:55 -0400
  ...30*dwell on an eight cylinder engine would leave 120* of cumulative rotation for the coil to be off charge and therefore cooling somewhat...
• Vanagon Stereo Override?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:13:07 -0800
  ...connect the coil of an 87- 87a relay to coolant and oil pressure warning systems and relay switch to stereo positive power. As a...