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Subject:Re: '86 GL stutters, stumbles and dies intermittantly
From:Don in North Carolina
Date:Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:40:44 -0400

On 8/31/06, John Connolly, Aircooled.Net <john@aircooled.net> wrote:
> Your Hall sensor is dying.
>
> John
> Aircooled.Net Inc.

I'll second that!  Check the plug on the side of the distributor to
see if the plastic has become brittle and self-destructed.  That's
what happened with my '88 - replaced the distributor (you can get just
the hall effect sensor, I went all out) and haven't had a problem
since...

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Don in Reidsville, NC
1986 Kawasaki Concours - 4 Sale
1988 Vanagon GL (Sylvia) - 4 Sale
1999 Kawasaki Concours
2001 Subaru Outback (H-6)
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