Hey don't feel foolish.

From my POV, a distributor pushing out and away from its' drive pinion
is not common.

At the very least, your discovery may help someone else who is
searching through the archives one day puzzled about something
similar. Plus think of all the stuff you or other readers have
learned!

Hope your power is back!

Neil.

On Dec 29, 2007 9:27 AM, Vdub Guy <fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote:
> OK, just got the Vanagon started. The more complicated this problem got, the more convinced I was that I'd find something really easy/stupid. When I discovered what the problem was, my first thought was to sell the Vanagon, drop off this list, and hope you good people forget who I am, because I am really embarrassed to tell you what it was. I had been thinking over the past couple of days what had I done to the van prior to pulling the injectors? OK, I had changed the ground strap from underneath the relays to the head-easy to miss getting one of the grounds on the head. Thoroughly searched all over the left side of the engine-that wasn't it. This morning I remembered that about a month ago I had pulled the distributor. But, I had driven the van quite a bit since then. What the hell, worth taking a look at. It looks as though I did not tighten the clamp enough around the distributor-it had riden up enough that it was not turning! Pushed it down, tightened the clamp-van fired right
> up. Soooooo, it wasn't the injectors, I didn't fry the ECU (whew!), it wasn't the fuel pump, etc., etc. Several folks had asked if I was getting spark-had I checked that days ago I would have found it. I was too pig-headed to think it was anything but related to the injectors. At least I didn't start slamming the company that cleaned them (WhitchHunter), or I probably would have sold the van and dropped out of sight! Now, I'm heading out to take a drive and see how it runs with clean injectors! Thanks everyone for your help and support.   Jeff (feeling very foolish)
>

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