Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
Subject:Re: Failure to start problems.
From:Austin
Date:Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:03:10 -0700
At 06:23 PM 9/19/97 -0800, you wrote:

  I got a yellow spark from the coil to distributor tower,
  and yellow spark from tower to spark plug lead.  Fuel pump came on.

Could be a bad coil (or weak primary current to the coil) - the spark
should be a definite bluish-white, & able to jump ~3/8+ inch from the coil
wire to a good ground.

Austin