16v down and barely running , anyone got some advise?

[brianm at earendel.org (Brian McGarvey)]

My scircco sense says thats it prolly the distrubutor..
$200 the hall sender is prolly toast.
brian


On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, A J wrote:

> Well , just as I get my custom short shift installed
> and get on the highway to pick up the kid , my 16v
> starts to shug and feels like its running out of gas ,
> I pull off the highway and the car dies , I turn it
> over and it starts only with my foot on the gas and it
> sounds like its running on 1 cylinder with some smokey
> exhaust , I can hear my fuel pump come on with the key
> and the gas smells like fuel so it must be getting gas
> , luckilly I'm a block from an auto parts so I go over
> and get some plugs cap and rotor and just go for a
> tune up , double check the parts and put them in , the
> car starts right up but then is just sputtering , same
> deal as before , so I'm back at my house and the car
> is towed back , I looked thru my book for trouble
> shooting , the car ran fine this morning , could this
> be an ignition problem ? maybe my coil or a problem
> with the distributor ? Aaron in San Jose -
> 
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