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Subject:Distributor rotor heat damage? (Solving intermittent engine stall)
From:Neil N
Date:Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:13:53 -0800

Hi all.

This is for a Jetta engine in a vanagon.

New rotor with ~ 4000 miles. Am I looking at damage due to excessive engine
heat? The Jetta coil is purported to put out higher than average voltage.

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/1597861.jpg

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I'm trouble shooting an intermittent engine stall. It started out as
"blips" at highway speed then finally showed up as a brief stall making a
left hand turn. It might have been due to corrosion at distributor hall
sender connectors. I addressed that best I could, cleaned all other engine
connectors, (they looked fine), cleaned up rotor. So far so good.

Thanks.

Neil.

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