Your distributor can be repaired, the hall sender is replaceable. It's the
same one as the 16-valve Jetta-GTI (1987-92). I repaired mine.

H�ctor
1990 Carat 'Ursula'

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Mike Miller <mwmiller@cwnet.com> wrote:

> Well,
>
> Thought it was the fuel pump on my 87 syncro. May have been but the
> distributor seems to becoming, uh, touchy.
>
> Car wouldn't start, no spark, touched the distributor and started right up.
> Missed, like total zero rpm, on a bumpy road then caught and kept going.
>
> Something loose on the distributor?
>
> Anybody got a good distributor for sale?
>
> I'm in the SF Bay area of California.
>
> Mike
>