COOL!!!

I'll check the local yard.

John

John Rodgers
Clayartist and Moldmaker
88'GL VW Bus Driver
Chelsea, AL
Http://www.moldhaus.com

On 9/4/2011 1:32 PM, Zeitgeist wrote:
> A number of years ago I faced the same situation, in that the external
> plastic piece had disintegrated.  I went to the local Pick a Part and
> located a distributor from a mid-'80's Volvo 740 and simply swapped the
> entire Hall device from one dist to the other.  Just had to make a little
> wooden cradle in order to support the dist shaft while driving out the pin
> on the drive.  Simple job really.  I think it cost me about $10 total.  Four
> cylinder Saabs, BMWs, Volvos, Peugeots, VWs, etc. which use the same Bosch
> dist body should all be suitable candidates.
>
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Jim Felder<jim.felder@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I was wondering after reading about John's search for an affordable hall
>> effect sensor what other people had done. Our
>> OEM sensors are an awfully expensive part to replace something that there
>> are dozens of under my fingers as I type.
>>
>> This from the renown tencentlife on another discussion group:
>>
>> "The Hall unit in the Vanagon diz is only unique in its mounting and the
>> output connector, but the sensor head itself could be replaced, or so I
>> have
>> been told, with an off-the-shelf pickup adapted to the mounting base and
>> connector, which if true makes it going NLA not a big deal at all."
>>
>> So, if you concocted your own connector and a mounting base (these could be
>> cast in resin or�are you listening John�made of ceramic) with a cheap
>> sensor
>> glued in. It may be possible to remove a vanagon sensor from crumbling
>> plastic and glue it into such a mounting base.
>>
>> Anybody smarter than me who wants to figure out a cheap sensor that could
>> be
>> used?
>>
>> Jim
>>
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