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• Distributor plug wiring diagram
  Historical mailing list - coyote
  Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:43:41 -0700
  Thanks to Gerry Skerbitz, there is now a very nice wiring diagram in the list archives, at ftp://gerry.likeminds.com/pub/technical/vanagon...
• Re: Rev Limiter? - 1.9L
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:10:12 EST
  ...9L of which I have knowledge is in the form of a centrifugal switch built into the distributor rotor specified for this engine. Rich
• North American source for Propex 1600?
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:26:19 -0500
  ...Are there any North American distributors? Does anyone know who makes these? Thanks, Chris
• O2 Sensors
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:23:36 -0600
  ...My local Bosch distributor has a generic Bosch unit listed in his catalog for the 2.1L engine for $16.95. This is not...
• Re: gas prices going up.....more...
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:51:39 EST
  ...of energy-price tracker Cameron Hanover. >> The rest of the quote is something like, "but the producers and distributors are ecstatic with glee." George
• Carbon Tracking??
  Historical mailing list - mad madeline
  Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:39:51 -0700
  Can someone please explain what carbon tracking looks like in the distributor cap?? I found a reference to it on an old email. Mad...
• Losing power...
  Historical mailing list - Eric Unrau
  Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:33:09 -0400
  ...Assuming that the loose hall sender connection was the problem, the following day I wrapped 14 gauge wire around the distributor to immobilize the...
• Re: No start/ Yes spark II
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 3 Nov 2011 17:43:03 -0700
  ...Then, still connected, I pinned center wire of Hall sender connector (at distributor) to ground. I heard a "click" in the distributor (my conclusion...
• Coolant Distributor Replacement - and a parts review
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:04:05 -0500
  ...There are two sheet metal screws that hold the plastic distributor in place. The top one was accessed through the top of the engine...
• TDC ?
  Historical mailing list - Christopher M. Smith
  Tue, 28 Jan 1997 11:27:41 -0800 (PST)
  ...as it relates to being in proper position to install the distributor driveshaft and adjust valves). I've always understood TDC as position at...
• Re: 87 No Start,check this
  Historical mailing list - David Bayer
  Sun, 3 May 1998 11:10:23 -0700
  ...Also check the connector coming out of the distributor for the hall sender. This has been known to crack and allow the signal to...
• cutting out and sparking coil
  Historical mailing list - Mervyn Readman
  Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:02:39 EDT
  ...Looked over at the coil and saw ignition sparks coming out of the rubber boot on the coil to distributor wire. This morning on...
• Re: 88 vanagon gl "issues"
  Historical mailing list - Chris Lisica
  Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:53:59 -0800
  ...Some questions: > > > > The TEMPII sensor is a real good candidate. > > > > > > Where exactly is the TEMPII sensor? > > > > There are some wires/traces under the distributor...
• Re: Injector Ordeal-OVER!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:16:06 -0500
  ...Karl >> -----Original Message----- This morning I >> remembered that about a month ago I had pulled the >> distributor. But, I had >> driven the van quite...
• Re: Timing Mark
  Historical mailing list - David Johnson
  Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:43:35 -0600
  ...half way around the distributor). I tried the Haynes trick of putting it in 4th and pushing it forward (at least as much as...
• Re: Wiring harness to distributor plug
  Historical mailing list - Paul Rogers
  Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:14:58 -0700
  ...has a 2.1 distributor, > and I'm pretty sure Paul is using a 1.9 ignition system and distributor > in his 85 Vanagon...
• Re: Possible Distributor Drive Shaft issue - Timing
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:20:31 -0700
  ...Possible Distributor Drive Shaft issue - Timing 1984 WBXR 1.9L (now 2.2 in a 1.9 case) just back from the machine shop...
• Re: Engine stutters, tach nosedives. Then, just as suddenly, it's normal again.
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:00:54 -0500
  ...In my case it turned out to be the hall sensor in the distributor. I replaced this and have been fine ever since. However...
• Re: 84 Vanagon missing throughout driving range?
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:23:58 -0700
  ...Is the cap seated on the distributor correctly? Is the rotor seated firmly down on the distributor? Check vac-lines. When you mess with...
• timing help needed!
  Historical mailing list - Paul Wies
  Wed, 1 Oct 2003 22:04:52 EDT
  ...82 2.0L with orig type distributor. I bought the Van with an 009 installed. Never had any troubles. I convinced myself, though, that...
• Oil Filter Worries (and other nuggets...)
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Sat, 26 Jun 2004 05:45:39 -0700
  ...Most of the reason that the high-tension lead to the distributor is the one that usually gets pulled is that it is easy...
• Re: distributor wiring question
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:18:56 +0000
  "I would have to imagine that this is for a baywindow as our Vanagon all have had electronic ignition" Air cooled Vanagons had points...
• Re: Mystery module. what the heck is it? '72
  Historical mailing list - William A. McKinley
  18 Sep 96 12:23:30 EDT
  ...If you don't have the stock carbs and distributor, it's useless. As with all emissions equipment, save it. You'll need it...
• 85 Hall Generator
  Historical mailing list - joe brown
  Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:38:19 -0800
  ...It was perfect match, right down to the distributor wire connection. I paid $82.99. Joe --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you...
• Re: '90 distributor cap
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:19:45 -0500
  ...Harry Yates) writes: >I pulled off the plastic bag from the distributor, and it promptly >started to disintegrate. Gotta get a new one, I...
• Re: Oil pump priming?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew
  Sun, 2 Oct 2005 15:22:03 -0400
  ...Have an observer there and a pan to catch > oil. > > If that doesn't work, remove the distributor (mark it first) and use a...
• Re: Bad coil? Car dead at walmart
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:39:32 -0700
  ...The bad distributor was just intermittent .......... putting in the other one fixed perfectly. but you should have a noid light so you can be...
• Re: Ignition Coils
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:39:46 -0400
  ...the ignition wires, the coil and the distributor caps are different for the early vs the late. So ... if you use an "Early" coil...
• Fwd: Re: VANAGON digest 1372 and the 3000 mile rotor question
  Historical mailing list - Thomas D. Hanlon
  Mon, 26 May 1997 08:04:55 -0500
  -- [ From: * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] -- When I acquired my '84 Westy, I installed a Wells rotor and distributor cap, parts of a kit I...
• Re: Distributor Maintenance
  Historical mailing list - Scott Ohana
  Sat, 13 Jul 2013 13:01:03 -0700
  Few people know that the felt pad under the rotor in a 1.9 distributor takes a drop of light oil now and then...
• #3 late timing.
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 Nov 1995 19:43:59 -0800
  ...1965 Volkswagen gave a special grind to the cam >in the distributor to cause #3 to fire 2-1/2 degrees late. >This was...
• I'm stummped-Update
  Historical mailing list - Eric Schmedlin
  Sun, 31 May 1998 06:55:41 -0700
  ...I tried another distributor and coil, I installed a new fuel filter. I put it on an oscilloscope-everything looked fine. And I replaced...
• Re: removed my distro last night 85gl
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 7 Feb 2002 06:54:26 EST
  ...Remove the distributor. Remove the drift pin from the drive gear. Remove the distributor shaft. Remove the Hall sender. Hall senders are available from...
• Help!! in big trouble with Jetta GLi ignition system
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Sun, 17 Mar 2002 08:15:51 EST
  ...His car is an '86 GLi with the 1.8 l engine and has the knock sensor system on the distributor instead of advance...
• Re: Windshields: all years the same?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:36:01 -0800
  ...all years the same? > follow-on question for stan w.: > > stan, you suggested canvassing glass distributors for leftover inventory > they may want to unload...
• Re: stuttering
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:21:04 -0500
  ...Somewhere in your electrical system (maybe even the distributor cap itself) there is a problem. Though this is somewhat repetitive, clean all your connections...
• Re: Intermittent dropouts cured
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:53:07 -0700
  ...I swapped in the guts from a junkyard Volvo distributor and the problem was permanently solved. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:55...
• Karl Von Salzen - RIP
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:27:52 -0700
  ...My bay sports a Karl provided steering wheel and distributor. Thanks again. Godspeed. Jim Arnott List Admin vanagon@gerry
• Re: Re-installing distributer drive gear, T4
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 15 May 94 19:09:44 PDT
  ...the stock 73 distributor and the 009 are 90 degrees different in their #1 position. Just make sure you eyeballed that drive-dog slot...
• Re: kombi on fire
  Historical mailing list - Scott Beckstead
  Wed, 4 Oct 1995 18:40:49 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Since the fuel usualy leaks right onto the distributor. Scott ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any nation that trades Liberty for Security deserves neither. ---Ben Franklin '69 transporter conrad...
• Re: Vanagon Syndrome in Digijet?
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:12:26 -0400
  ...It was the wires going to the distributor. Remove the plug(carefully!)that attaches these 3 wires and check that they are pushed all...
• Update: I recently started assembling my engine, and FOR the love of GOD!! Could someone help me???
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Bartnicki
  Tue, 16 Oct 2001 03:31:09 -0400
  ...Aha! I checked the gear on the distributor by removing the plate on top of the motor (next to the tall black cylinder) and...
• Bad distributor (was: Re: testing the ignition coil (85 1.9L))
  Historical mailing list - Aerowolf
  Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:22:37 -0500
  ...Nor the distributor cap, or the idle control unit. The problem? Evidently something got a little out of whack inside the distributor... and the...
• Re: New AFM, but still rough @ first start
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Tue, 6 May 2008 06:48:11 -0400
  ...Sure enough I swapped in a known good distributor and that fixed the problem. Now it cranks right up, idles smooth and no more...
• Re: PLEASE HELP!!!.... TIMING ISSUES ON NEW ENGINE
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Erlandson
  Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:53:57 -0400
  ...If you crank the engine by hand 180 degrees clockwise the distributor will rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise to cylinder #4. So the rotor will...
• Re: RnR - Air and Vacuum/Coolant - Van Runs Terrible
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:25:53 -0700
  ...The distributor only goes back in one way when done correctly. Push down on the rotor and turn it until distributor drops down about...
• Re: Vanagon/Jetta timing issue. Use RPM sensor hole to find #1 TDC mark?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:30:29 -0700
  ...It drives the distributor, but AFAIK, if > > distributor not installed, it doesn't need to be in any special > > position in relation to the...
• Re: installed new engine.. now have ecu/fuel pump woes....anyone help me?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:28:08 -0700
  ...One test I like to do is take the distributor in my hands.. or 'a distributor' plugged into the igntion wiring harness, and turn...
• Re: Coolant pipe *REPAIR* kit, was: Coolant pipe kit and distributor kit from GoWesty
  Historical mailing list - azsun99
  Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:18:19 -0700
  ...Coolant pipe kit and distributor kit from GoWesty > At 11:45 AM 3/24/2009, David Clarkson wrote: > >I removed these inserts as they...
• 80 Westfalia probs.
  Historical mailing list - Marc Edwards
  Sat, 11 Jul 1998 16:28:30 -0700
  ...1 from the Fuel Injection Control Unit which connects to injectors...etc and 1 that connects to the hall distributor, idle stabilizer...etc. The...
• Re: Won't start (tries) (coughs) (smokes)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 6 May 2011 14:24:56 -0700
  did you inspect the distributor cap carefully ? if you get a reverse pulse, like backfire in the intake .. enough to pop off a hose...
• Re: Help needed: ABA conversion has spark and fuel but won't start.
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:04:46 -0700
  ...PM, neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > Is the cam/crank/distributor timing correct? > > These should line up at the same time: > > cam ("OT...
• Re: Coolant hose: T-stat to Coolant Distributor Tower
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:43:01 -0400
  > > Does this look good to you? (see link below) > Or, is it overkill? I don't think Knipex ever made anything that wasn't...
• I need some hall sender plugs for digijet Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:02:34 -0500
  ...I just need the plug that plugs onto the distributor. It needs to be in decent shape. Can anyone help me out? -- Thanks, Ken...
• Re: no longer unknown
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 13 Apr 1990 14:17:41 -0400
  ...Terminal 1 has a wire that runs to the distributor - its usually green but this depends on where you buy yo your points. Switch...
• Stock distributer #
  Historical mailing list - William A. McKinley
  20 Aug 96 00:54:30 EDT
  ...Anybody know the stock distributor number for a '72 Westy? I know it's a dual vacuum (advance and retarded) and reads something like...
• Re: I tuned the 82 and now NO GO, help wanted
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:38:39 EDT
  ...Check where the points spring attaches to the side of the distributor. Are you getting power to the coil now? I cant imagine you...
• Re-new member with a parts question
  Historical mailing list - ALAN GONDRY
  Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:17:21 -0700
  ...Mine has sprung a leak at the distributors. What kind of FI is a 1983 H2O? Alan _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile...
• Re: Hesitation problem (Advice needed)
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:33:14 -0500
  ...On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 05:36 PM, Kenneth Wilford wrote: > I put > on brand new AMC heads, new gaskets, new distributor cap...
• Re: Vanagon syndrome
  Historical mailing list - rainbow
  Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:09:17 -0400
  Do you have points? Are they working ok and set properly? Is the distributor timed properly? How are the electrical connections in the back...