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Subject:Re: giving up conversion project
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:47:03 -0600

I had a rat fink 1980 Westy that eluded me in every way.
I had transplanted the entire ignition system and AFM, FI system from my
83 Westy and it ran great.
The culprit was a bad rotor arm exacerbated by poor electrical
connections on everything in the engine bay.

Stan Wilder

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:16:04 -0800 Matt Ratto <mratto@UCSD.EDU> writes:
> Hey Guys, I'm about to give up this project, or at least find some
> mechanic
> to figure out the problems I'm having. I've done just about
> everything I can
> think of and I still can't get it running. Before I was having a
> problem
> where I had to run it so rich to get it to idle, now after changing
> the
> distributor cap I can't get it to run at all. I'm finding myself
> doing the
> same things over and over again. I've touched about everything,
> tested
> almost everything (except, obviously the thing that's not working),
> I'm
> about out of time, and out of options.
>
> So, if any of you know a mechanic in San Diego (a traveling one
> would even
> be better) that you think would be willing to take a look, send an
> email. I
> really hate to give up the DIY part, but ah well, I guess my
> inexperience
> finally caught me in the end.
>
> Matt
> -------------------------------------
> Matt Ratto
> Ph.D. Candidate
> University of California, San Diego
> mratto@ucsd.edu
> http://communication.ucsd.edu/mratto
> --------------------------------------
>
>

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