OT: Jetta incident.

[greg.rocco at gmail.com (Greg Pallett)]

Thanks for the tips.  It's only Tuesday evening, but I fear this will have
to wait for the weekend...

GP


On 8/29/06, C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
> On 10:43 pm 08/28/06 Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> >
> > >  Sunds a lot like what GIno was doing, daun do you
> > >  remember what we did to
> > >  fix it? It was a combo of a few things, IIRC, green
> > >  wiring being one of
> > >  them.
> > >  Cathy
> >
> > Tach fluctuating / falling to zero = ignition problem.
> >
> > On Gino, several of the wires from the ignition control
> > module in the raintray to the coil / distributor were
> > corroded.  Cathy bypassed the green wire, which solved most
> > of it, but there was an occasional short with one of the
> > others, so that whole section of wiring harness has been
> > replaced.
> >
> > Greg, I would check wires to the coil, ignition control
> > unit and perhaps the distributor.  Don't forget the
> > grounds.
> >
> >
> > Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
>
> Yeah, and when I said "green wiring", I meant corroded copper green under
> the insulation, I forgot that it may have been green insulation on the
> outside also. Old wiring gets brittle insulation cracks going, which leads
> to internal deterioration of the wire if the car's been in the elements.
> Strip it back to clean wire, or bypass the wire entirely if you can't find
> any shiny copper in there. (she says as she procrastinates on more wiring
> tasks...)
> Cathy
>
>
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