No idea on the the number of kms or age of the hall sender - from before my
time as the owner - that would make it pre 2006 and perhaps 20 years past
that. (1986 VW).

I will check into the hall sender.

BT

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:28 AM, SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott ) <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> How old/many km's on the Hall Sender in the distributor ?
>
> fwiw...
> I have rarely seen a faulty coil..
> weak ones ..sure.
> But not generally failure prone in my experience.
>
> when I do get a 2.1 waterboxer with unexplained intermittent starting /
> running.
> and miles are high I consider the Hall Sender for sure.
>
> I always carry a spare known-good Distributor.
> Not big or heavy, easy to replace.
>
> On 8/16/2015 12:46 PM, Bruce Todd wrote:
>
> You may or may not read my travel post from yesterday - great trip down the
> Olympic Peninsula and halfway down Oregon coast.  At the heart of the
> matter was that my coil packed it in about 3 km from home.  A mixed
> blessing of sorts given the rush hour driving we completed in Portland on
> the I-5, the number of large bridges we crossed, and some of the remote
> highways we traversed.
>
> I have now replaced 4 coils since July 10 of 2012 = here are the makes of
> coils, dates of purchase & install and odometer reading in (kms).
>
> July 10, 2012- Beck Arnley Coil (267,951) replaced the original (?) black
> Bosch coil - I bought the van in the Summer of 2006 (228,394). as a
> preventative measure.
>
> Sept 28, 2012 - New Bosch coil (270,965) replaced Beck Arnley (failed)
>
> Feb 8, 2014 - Replaced new Bosch Coil with spare (original coil) (279,376)
> (new Bosch coil failed)
>
> October 22, 2014 - Replaced spare coil with 2nd New Bosch coil (283,980)
> (Mechanic accidentally kept spare coil which I have not yet got back)
>
> August 15, 2015 - Replaced 2nd Bosch coil with 3rd Bosch coil (289,578).
>
> I just sent off an email to Bosch Canada given that this could be some poor
> workmanship or perhaps some bad luck on my part.  What mechanically or more
> specifically electronically do people think could be possibly contributing
> to this issue.
>
> One last thing - I did post last October on the heat I noticed from the 2nd
> Bosch coil - ?  Subject line:  Coil Boil
>
> Thanks all.
>
> Bruce Todd
>
> 86 Westy Syncro
>
>
>
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