Turned out to be a bad ecu. You called it, Ken.

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:09:16 -0800, Leo Lipert <leolipert@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>   A friend's 1988 Vanagon died while driving down the freeway, just quit.
>He had it towed home, and today he and I took a look at it. We
disconnected
>the fuel line at the engine and the fuel pump is working, and it's getting
>spark. We changed the distributor cap and rotor just because they looked a
>little suspect.
>
>   It doesn't even act like it wants to try to start. Turns over but
doesn't
>pop or do anything approaching wanting to start.
>
>Any suggestions of where to look?
>
>Thanks, Leo