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Hi Tom,
    After thinking about this for a bit I like your coil suggestion. This is
one of those that  could be much easier to find with a  scope hooked up to
it.  Like it about  10 seconds say there is your problem, or at least the
ignition could be eliminated as suspect. This must be a California van as
Eric mentions a  wot switch, don't think these are on nationals. This is one
of those  problems that is probably  either electrical or mechanical. (old
ibm service phrase)

Darrell

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Young <young@SHERLOCK.SIMS.BERKELEY.EDU>
To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, May 23, 1998 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: I'm stumped! (misfire)

>On Sat, 23 May 1998, Eric Schmedlin wrote:
>
>> I have a problem that has got me stumped.  I have an
>> 82 Westy which has a misfire, both at idle and at rpm.
>>
>> So far to correct this miss I have tried the following:
>> [just about every cure know to medical science snipped]
>>
>Eric:
>
>I didn't see any mention of the coil.  Try a matching coil from a junker
>(I figure at this point you've spent enough on this sucker) and see if
>there's any change.
>
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>Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
>Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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