Ken

        I am planning to look into the HallSensor possibility today ~ I'll post

how it goes.

                                                        ORR ~ DeanB

On 25 Oct , 2012, at 4:08 AM, kenneth wilford (Van-Again) wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>>