Hey Zoltan,

Sometimes it's like that -- baffled for a while.  Then some inspiration.

My understanding of spark is 12V to coil which builds up a higher voltage.
One wire from coil to distributor - rotor spins with the cycling of the
engine - 4 places on the distributor cap the rotor makes contact - high
voltage goes down one wire at a time to zap the spark plug.  So you can
trace through the process - see if you're got spark coming out of the coil -
then going into the distributor - then coming out of the distributor to each
spark plug wire.

Not sure if this helps but probably doesn't hurt.

Good luck,
Werner in Sacto

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
HotelWestfalia
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 2:50 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: No spark ...

I'm baffled.  It's an '85 Vanagon, 1.9 system, I checked the coil, there is
juice to it, have a remote starter, no spark.  Why?  It's amaizing how
motherless I can get when things don't work.  I just realized, I don't even
know how spark is supposed to be generated in principle.  This supposed to
be simple.
Zoltan