A bad O2 sensor can make your van act dead. Just disconnect it.
This puts the ECU in a mode that it will run well.
 Also how old is the gas. Bad gas has a strainge smell. Simply
will not run. Can change over night.
    You need 3 things to make an engine run.
  1 - fuel, you can use a can of starting fluid,but this many kill the CAT
  2 - spark, you can see spark at a wire. Make sure it is not orange
             color. Believe it or not this is a sign of a weak coil.
  3 - compression, pull the plugs and check with a gauge.
                 good luck
            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          86-SS Syncro
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
                                   92-Jetta GWC
            www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Carl Hansen wrote:

> Dang her black heart anyway.  I really don't need this grief.
>
> Here's the update.
>
> *  We're at a point that the beast will fire a couple of times while
> cranking, right at first, but will not do more than that as you hold key
> cranking.
>
>
> *  Battery new, and Bill's using a boost/charger anyway so maybe a moot point.
>
> *  Contacts at both the injectors and at the ECU look clean.
>
> *  Fuel pressure good, holds residual pressure, pressure drops if you
> manually fire the injectors, pressure regulator new.
>
> *  New plugs and coil, and many of the connections rewired due to
> corrosion.  Grounds checked for corrosion and grounded if needed.
>
> *  Plug wires in correct order (1 and 2 were reversed - oops, my fault)
>
> *  Getting a signal to the injectors as indicated by a test light.
>
>
> Still to check:
>
> *  Run wire from Battery to Alternator to bypass connection at the starter.
> Apparently this connection can get corroded.
>
> *  Install ground wire chassis to engine.  The left side original
> disintegrated in my hands.  Not sure what's left.  (At Tranny nose, at
> right side?)
>
> *  Hot wire the coil from the alternator, to check the ignition switch.
>
> *  New Plug wires?
>
>
> Any one got any thoughts??  I'm sure that I might have missed something we
> did already but ..... uunnnnnhhh.  (sleep is highly overrated, don't you
> think?)
>
> TIA
>
> Ch
>
> Carl Hansen
> 952.440.2899
> carl_hansen@ieee.org
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