Headache's gone, thanks eh!

[mkii_84@yahoo.com (Andrew Wong)]

Glad that your Headache is fixed again.  The headlight
switch for high/low could be too tight since on mine I
had to tighten mine so the stalk would stay in high or
turn off high to low
--- Cathy Boyko <losinit@usa.net> wrote:
> Well, the long saga of the non start has been
> resolved- and the moral is ASK
> THE LIST FIRST. After a wrong used distributor (this
> car attracts wrong
> parts), and a long drive to get a reasonably priced
> new Hall sender, I go in
> to see how it's coming (after numerous phone calls
> and a week and a half) The
> mechanic is under the hood with a test light and
> manual, still no start,
> probing the harness to the brain box. I casually
> mention grounds and coils and
> starters and such things in a nonchalent manner and
> leave. I phone at the end
> of the day Friday, the service manager tells me I
> need a part. What part I
> ask? Oh, it will be in Tuesday, a ground strap. I
> say "how do I get the keys",
> and off I drove in it today, after applying a jumper
> cable from the tranny
> ground bolt to the battery (it fires right up).
> Seems I heard that from just
> about all of you, and thanks, it likely saved me
> hours of "diagnosis", and for
> sure some labour, I can handle this quite nicely
> myself.
> 
> Did I need the Hall sender? Who knows, it does run
> smoother, so maybe? The
> other was likely from the factory anyway. But I had
> sanded all the grounds
> before, but I don't think that it ever had one to
> the tranny. So how the heck
> did it ever start? And maybe it will run even
> stronger once the strap is on.
> I'm tossing all of the old ground cables, and would
> like to join the church of
> the free electrons.
> 
> So thanks to all who replied with the correct
> diagnosis, and thanks to Casey
> for the cheap parts source in Toronto.
> 
> Another question, when the ignition switch was
> changed, the headlight high/low
> switch is stuck in the high position. Is this
> something that is overtightened,
> or do I need to replace the switch. It just won't
> click into the low position.
> 
> But it did before the ignition switch was done.
> 
> 
> Oh and one more quick one, I need a constant power
> supply for my stereo memory
> functions. Where can I hook into, besides running
> yet another wire from the
> battery. Thanks. And yes I know I'm annoying.
> 
> Anyway, all is well again, or so it seems. At least
> I have it to mess with on
> this long weekend. And I can start it reliably. (and
> I'm still loving the new
> gearbox, I only have 100 kms on it) Heck, I even
> have hope of getting it to
> Cincy now!
> 
> Cathy, 1987 2L 16V Scirocco "the
> silver-never-ending-pain-in-the-%$#"
> 
> 
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=====
-Andrew Wong 
1984 Black Scirocco
1987 White Quantum wagon

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