Sounds like the way my van behaved when the Hall Sensor in the
distributor went bad.  I could restart it over and over but then it
would randomly die out.  When it stopped it was like someone shut the
key off, tach dropped to zero.  If I was still rolling I would pop the
clutch and restart but then it would die out again after a minute or
two.  A new Hall Sensor fixed the problem for good.  Let me know if you
want to purchase one as I can do that for you or I could rebuild a used
distributor here with a new Hall Sensor and do that for you as well.
The sensor is $149, the rebuilt distributor (old distributor with new
hall sensor installed) I would do for $199.

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Thanks,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com
Phone: 856-327-4936
Fax: 856-327-2242

On 10/24/2012 1:30 PM, OlRivrRat wrote:
>        RISS has returned ~ The owner of this Van drove it the 10.6mi's
> out
>
> to my place on Sat, without incident, so that I can look into the
> TranyNoise
>
> issue & fix some other stuff (FloppyArmRests). Yesterday while driving
> it to
>
> the home of a TranyGuy I know so he could listen to it & give an
> opinion, it
>
> decided it was time to start MessinWithMe again just 2.2mi's from my
> place
>
> ~ it shut down while cruising & about 35mph in 3rd. I pulled over,
> turned
>
> the key off & back on & it started right up, so I proceeded. A few
> mi's further
>
> it did it again @ about 46mph so that time I did a Restart OnTheFly &
> the
>
> next 6.6mi's, which included a couple of mi's of 65+mph
> FreeWayDriving, to
>
> the TranyGuysPlace went without issue. The TranyGuy & I went for a 3mi'
>
> TestDrive without issue. About 1.5mi's into my return trip home @ a
> point
>
> where I was blocking traffic, it quit & would not restart for about
> 5min's. One
>
> more ShutDown & ToughRestart about 1mi' later & then it was fine the
> rest
>
> of the way home. During the ToughRestarts there were some "KeyOns" with
>
> NO FuelPumpNoise & some WITH F'P'N'.
>
>        I'm going to try a new IgnitionSwitch next ~ any other
> suggestion will
>
> be appreciated.
>
>                                                        ORR~DeanB
>
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Thanks,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com
Phone: 856-327-4936
Fax: 856-327-2242