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Subject:Re: 85 1.9, Intermittent stall then no start but does crank ??
From:Don in North Carolina
Date:Mon, 2 Oct 2006 06:39:34 -0400

On 10/2/06, TC <trclark@shaw.ca> wrote:
<SNIP tale of woe>

Check the plug where the the distributor hall effect sensor is plugged
in (on the distributor).  These get old and brittle, break and let the
hall sensor short against the distributor casing.

I had the same symptoms on my '88 and a new distributor fixed it - at
least for the last two years...

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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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