Have to share a success story -

I was driving back to the bay area Sunday night after
a tiring weekend of climbing long alpine routes in
Toulomne when the van had a sudden VERY powerfull
surge.  The surge was quick, but forcefull enough to
make me pull over and take a look in the engine
compartment.  As I pulled off to the side of the road,
she died and I coasted to a stop.

Everything I could see looked to be in order, it was
8pm and quite dark so it was hard to really get a good
look at what was going on.  The van was cranking just
fine, but it seemed like no fuel was getting to the
injectors.  Full tank of gas, what next?  I had fuel
and pressure comming into and out of the fuel filter,
so I guesed it wasnt a fuel pump problem.  Hall sendor
and distributer seemed in tack.

I remembered once getting stuck at altitude because of
an O2 sensor problem, so I checked that and found the
male connecter had been torn loose.  As I looked
closer in that area of the engine, I could see that
the main cable running from the ignition coil to the
distributer was totally burned out.  I touched it
gently and it crumbled apart.  A quick clean up job
and re-wiring of the cable and she fired right up, but
massive sparks were shooting out of the coil,
grounding out on another wire that connected to the
coil.  Wrapped that baby up with electrical tape and
it was insulated enough to stop the spark.

In no time we were on our way.  Felt great to be able
to diagnose the problem on the road at night like
that, fix it and get home.  Ive learned a hell of a
lot about engines since buying the ol syncro, and most
of my successes is owed to the list and all of the
great members who are so willing to provide advice.

Thanks list!

JG

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