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Subject:Re: Sputter, sputter, cough cough
From:Richard A. Jones
Date:Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:15:42 -0600

> My gut tells me this is all something to do with the distributor. Why?
> Because the symptoms are a magnified version of the bad performance i
> was seeing before the timing was advanced. But i'm just talking out my
> butt here.

Check the Hall sensor in the distributor carefully.  When mine failed
last winter the symptoms were somewhat similar.

                                Richard A. Jones
                                Boulder, Colorado
                                '81 Vanagon   Mr Bus
                                '87 Syncro Westy   El Jefe