I remember a van that had a problem with dying.  I was troubleshooting and
when I turned the key on the pump didnt do its 2 second run.  I took
another distributor that I had and just plugged it in electrically to the
hall sensor and then turned on the key.  It did the pre run every time I
would turn the distributor shaft a little with my fingers.  Installed
distributor and that fixed it.

I am 100% positive that this problem is the distributor (hall sensor) or a
fault in its wiring.

Ken Wilford
john 3:16
www.vanagain.con
On Oct 24, 2012 3:56 PM, "mark drillock" <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:

> Ken, have you seen a case where a hall problem kept the fuel pump from
> running briefly at key on? If so it would be good to know that this could
> happen.
>
> Mark
>
> Ken Wilford wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>