Try removing the air intake boot from the engine and try cranking it.  I
have the same model and this is what worked when it would not start in cold
damp condensing fog.
Alex Dallas
adallas@worldnet.att.net

Date:    Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:08:11 -0500
From:    Sharon & Miguel Calvin <mcalvin@ICAN.NET>
Subject: UPDATE: (83.5 won't start) IT LIVES!

Well I went out to push it to its proper parking spot, with my SO close
behind.  I decided to give it one last try, and IT STARTED!  Perhaps it was
just flooded?
Or drying out the distributor cap a few minutes earlier had the desired
effect?
I hate not knowing for sure.
Anyway, thanks to Per Lindgren & Alfred Bagdan for suggestions.  The temp
sensor tests O.K., Alfred... but you never know for sure.

>I forgot to say that it turns over fine, it just won't fire up.

My 83.5 1.9l liquid cooled Westy won't start.  Tank is half full, gasline
antifreeze used at last fill up, air and fuel filters were replaced in
august, afm removed and tested yesterday - max resistance was 2400ohms at
about 1/3 of travel.  The van ran fine earlier today except for some
cutting-out/ hesitation.  The hesitation has been happening alot for the
last few days and only once in a while before that.  Then just now I went
out to get some parts and she won't start.  Electronic ignition an fuel
injection are both new to me but I do have a good grasp of the concepts.
Please point me in the right direction if you can.

Thanks

Miguel Calvin               ==+=========
mcalvin@ican.net           /[ ][  ][  ]}|
Guelph, Ontario, Canada   |  _       _  |
83.5 Westy, "Frieden"     =-'O`-----'O`-= ~~
1.9l H2O and manual trans

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