I'm a hundred miles north in Huntsville/Madison. If I catch them at
the right moment, Johnson's foreign auto in Huntsville might loan me
one.

thanks for the idea, though.

Jim

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Chris S <szpejankowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Aren't there some Vanagon list members around B'ham?  Maybe one of them
> could loan you an ECU?
>
> Also Jim's VW in Leeds might be an option although he always had pre-86
> vanagons.
>
> 2008/9/11 Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
>>
>> Long story about trying to find an LED test lamp this morning to find
>> out what is going on with the hall sensor, I found myself near walmart
>> with the distributor I removed last night. I returned the distributor
>> to the car and it started right up! Figured it must be the distributor
>> connections. Headed for home and before I got out of the parking lot,
>> it died. Started back up, headed home again, started running like
>> crap. Put on the flashers (only about two miles to go). Started
>> running better. Made all the time I could. Started running like crap
>> again. Barely made it up my hill and into the garage.
>>
>> Shut it off. Let it cool a minute, beat on the ECU and disconnected
>> and reconnected the connectors between the harness and the AFM.
>> Realized I had committed a cardinal sin of troubleshooting, I did two
>> things at one time so now I would not know which thing I did, if
>> either, caused the effect if it happened to start. I tried it and it
>> did. Ran for a minute and started stumbling and then died. Came inside
>> and typed some more on this post. Realized I had not run a ground wire
>> from the distributor to ground since I didn't have one with me
>> yesterday but now I did, so I went out and did that. It started right
>> up. It ran smoothly for a minute and started stumbling. I hopped into
>> the passenger area and beat on the box containing the ECU. No effect
>> so I shut it off and came in to finish this post. I just now ran out
>> and turned the key again, and it started and ran strongly. I knew what
>> was coming, though: in a minute it would run rough and die.
>>
>> It still could be the hall effect sensor, but really doesn't seem like
>> it. It could be the ECU, but I don't know how to test it. Could be the
>> temp II sensor, but I've never had a problem with that so I don't know
>> the symptoms. Any further guidance available, given that the real
>> range of symptoms are that if you let it sit, even for five minutes,
>> it starts right up, but then it stumbles and slowly heads toward a
>> stall?
>>
>> Thanks and thanks to those who have helped so much so far,
>>
>> Jim
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