My intermittent no-start turned out to be a loose ground wire from the ICU.
Stuff banging against it under the back seat must have taken their toll.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Stephen Grisanti
|Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 6:44 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: troubleshooting intermittency
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|The semi-nagging no-start issue that finally seemed to become permanent two
|weeks ago has again become intermittent.� I ordered some parts (fuel pump
|relay and ignition switch electrical portion along with other spares,
|anticipating one of those to be the issue) and while waiting for them to
|arrive would occasionally try to start with no success.� Today I finally
|got some time to work on the van (in the rain, natch) and, of course, it
|fired right up.
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|So now I guess I replace them anyway in hopes of fixing the problem,
|keeping the old pieces as spares until it proves itself fixed or not. Since
|I have the pieces it seems crazy not to use them but most of the
|satisfaction of troubleshooting is finding out what the actual problem was
|instead of solving the problem by throwing parts at it.
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