No doubt everything Jim said is true, but my experience is usually the
opposite.  Coils hardly ever go bad for me, almost always wiring or hall
problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Felder
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 2:20 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: 88 GL - Failure to Start - but now it does!! Hip Hip Huzzah!!

The coil being a coil, you have a great length of wire that, if it breaks,
makes a gap that will fluctuate a lot--or not--with temperature. It's not
like you have six inches of wire in there. When it  cools, it tends to
close. When it's hot, it tends to open, but not entirely predictably in
either case. Plus, it can start when cold, bridge its own gap with spark
going down the road, but not fire when you restart.