My van has been doing this intermittantly for the last couple months and the
last three days its been hard to start every morning. I found that the coil
wire connector at the coil had come apart and the end of the wire itself had
heat damage. I managed to clean up the terminal, strip the wire back and
re-crimp the connector back on. Everything seems to be working fine now.

I thought it had something to do with the cold weather, but it hasn't been as
cold here this week as it had the previous times that this has happened.

Good luck,

Tim

--- Dan Erlandson <danoer1@ECLIPSE.NET> wrote:
> So it was about 16 o F this morning in NJ and this was the second time
> where my wife had trouble starting the Van when it was down into the teens.
> Don't think we have had many mornings as cold as this one.  The other time
> it had trouble was about 2 weeks ago. The van has been starting and running >
fine otherwise.
> My wife tells me that it cranks, starts for a moment and then dies.  I've
> come out both times and gotten it started by cranking it and keeping the
> gas pedal down.  It has taken a few attempts but I have gotten it started
> both times... runs fine after that.  Before she finally starts it sounds as
> if the engine is stuttering.. trying to start, but doesn't quite catch.  Turn
> the key and it cranks normally and then skip, skip skip as it tries to
> start.
> I ran some fuel injector cleaner through last time this happened... and
> just last night the gas tank was down very low... into the reserve.
> My battery is good (I think) and is about 2 years old (VW brand), the coil
> was replaced a few years ago using a FLAPS brand, and there is a Bosch
> starter on it that we had put in about 3 years ago.
> She has been running great otherwise.
>
> Anybody have some thoughts???  Thanks
> --
> Dan Erlandson
> Flemington, NJ
> danoer1@eclipse.net
> 91 VW Vanagon GL
> 99 VW Passat

=====
TJ Hannink
Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper, Wolfsburg Edition
Winter Park, Florida
http://home.earthlink.net/~tjhannink/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wolfsburg_campers
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