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Subject:Re: '88 GL intermittent ignition miss (second update)
From:Gregory Smith
Date:Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:16:28 -0700

<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Yesterday I spoke with a fellow PNW Vanagon enthusiast who also works on VWs as a side business about this issue.&nbsp; He was very certain it was the hall sender. &nbsp;So I swapped the hall sender out yesterday afternoon.&nbsp; I used one from another distributor I got from a junkyard a few years ago, I think it was a Jetta. &nbsp;My research suggests they're all the same. &nbsp;<br><br>Anyway it works fine now, I will report back when I have road tested it for a few days. &nbsp;The idle seems steadier than before too.&nbsp; Of course during all of my troublehsooting I killed my gauge lighting.&nbsp; Did you know the key-on power (terminal 15) from the ignition switch goes first to the headlight switch?&nbsp; It branches on from there.&nbsp; Crazy.<br><br>One nice thing about how the Vanagon dizzy is mounted, you can pull it without having to mess with the timing.<br><br>Gregory Smith<br>'88 VW Vanagon GL<br>'77 Lancia Scorpion<br>Olympia, WA</div></span></body></html>