Re: firing order.

[Tyler <x-frog@home.com>]

hmmm, I might try that, but by reading the book it sounded pretty tricky to
remove the distributor myself, so I'm not sure whether I should just take it
to my mechanic.
thanks for the advice though. Oh yeah, its a '87 16v.

Jonas Karlsson wrote:

> >From what I've heard on this list, trying to repair the Hall sender is
> somewhat of a PITA, but it is doable. I believe Roland J. mentioned
> something about VW selling a repair kit, but he's in Sweden, so I'm
> uncertain on availability in the US (you're in the US, right?).
>
> I've also heard of people soldering the wires back on, with good results.
>
> Anyway, it would involve taking out the distributor, then repairing it,
> and (of course) installing the fixed distributor. If you can get a hold
> of a working distributor at a low cost, it might be worth it to you to
> just swap the whole thing (less downtime, less headache, etc.) That's
> the way I would go, but I also have a bunch of junkyards around to seek
> one out in.
>
> BTW, what year is your rocco?
>
> GL
>
> Jonas
> 85 Scirocco
>
> Tyler Chamberlain wrote:
> >okay, you were right. One of the three wires that comes from the
> >hall sensor broke off just at the connection outside the
> >distributer, is there any way that I can pull the wire out and
> >connect it up again? Or do I just have to get a whole
> >new distributer?
> >
> >Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> >
> >> Firing order is 1-3-4-2
>
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