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Subject:Help! My Van won't start!
From:TJ Hemrick
Date:Thu, 27 May 2004 18:57:04 -0700

I have an 88 Wolfsburg/automatic that's kicking my butt.  It
turns over and catches if I shoot some starting fluid in it but within
seconds of running it shuts down.  It will do it over and over again
but nothing else.  It has gas (don't laugh, I've seen someone do it!),
the battery and starter are 100%.  I've got plenty of used good parts
from my 2.1 to play "swaptronics" with.  Does anyone have a good idea
which one of the sensors, relays, or switches I should attack first?  I
realize that's a pretty open ended question with not much to go on but
that's all I know at this time.  Someone must have had something like
this.  I've got a few new temp sensors also.  It sounds smooth when it
is running.  It's not rough like it's got bad gas or something like
that.

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