Thanks, Mark.
I gathered that was where it started- does it go straight through to the
tach, or are there connections upstream? It's connected at the coil... I
suppose the law of simplicity would demand I check the actual wire end
first, since that's what I moved/touched. It _looked_ fine, and I didn't
subject it to any trauma, but who knows?

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:28 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:

> At the coil, there is a white plastic dual wire connector with 2 green
> wires. One of those green wires goes to the tach. The other green wire
> comes from the ECU where the ECU provides it ground pulses to fire the
> coil. That side of the coil has 2 male spades tied together on the threaded
> stud they are mounted to. The 2 pin connector plugs onto the 2 male spades.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Robert Fisher wrote:
>
>> This is for the '87 2.1 Auto: Replaced the coil, finally got the van
>> running again (long story, of course) but now the tach is dead. I read
>> through the archives and looked at the wiring diagram in the Bentley but
>> it's not clear to me. I haven't driven the van much since I got it running
>> but I noticed a "power drop out" or hiccup in the engine that makes me
>> think of the description several people have given for Vanagon Syndrome,
>> like a heart skipping a beat. The Hall sensor tested out okay but I'm not
>> convinced that I don't have another problem other than the coil, or maybe
>> the same intermittant problem I had before.
>>
>> ...............
>>
>

--
Cya,
Robert

'87 & '86 2.1/Auto GLs