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Subject:Re: 84 westy
From:Rob
Date:Sat, 2 Mar 2013 14:01:26 -0700

Just died at a stop light ... does it click or anything when you turn
the key? Can you get your hands (wrench or socket or something) on
the engine & see if it turns at all (checking for a catastrophic
failure as in the "engine seized"). It didn't have the red alt lite
on for awhile did it? If it did the battery could be too low to crank
the engine but not too low to test the fuel pump, if you had a
multimeter you could check the battery voltage.
Look carefully at the ends of all the wires you can see in the engine
compartment in case anything came off.

Good luck!

Rob
vwrobb@gmail.com

At  3/2/2013 01:35 PM,Rocky Davis wrote:
>Hi folks.
>I'm fairly new to the westy world. Been reading here and have
>learned a lot from you people. Thank you. I have only had my westy
>for a year. And still have not been able to use it much as I don't
>know all the quirks that go with it. Today I took the van for a ride
>and at the stoplight. It just died. Won't even turn over I can hear
>the fuel pump when I turn the key. Any ideas?  It's an 84 westy with
>a 1.9 water boxer  any help would be appreciated.
>Sent from my iPhone

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