16v no start problem

[tyrone27 at gmail.com (Derrick floyd)]

yea heard the pump primming with the ignition comes on.

On 4/8/07, C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
> You can do a quick and dirty test for that with one half of a set of
> booster cables, just clip one end to the chassis and the other to the
> negative terminal. Try it with the thing hooked to the tranny too, that
> ground often gets deleted entirely if the motor/tranny's been swapped.
>
> In my experience it's most often been the small wires on critical igintion
> parts, like the ones on the Hall Effect sensor on the ignition
> distributor.
> Always look up under the rubber boot on the connector too, I've had more
> than one bad wire right up in there.
>
> Did you hear the fuel pump prime?  Just curious.
>
> Cathy
>
> On 12:20 am 04/08/07 "Derrick floyd" <tyrone27@gmail.com> wrote:
> > yea I'm going to pick up a 2 gauge ground wire tomorrow and run it
> > from the negative to chassis to motor.Also I'm going to try to use my
> > scirocco bently to start back tracking the wires.  I have a passat
> > wiring digram so the resistance specs should be the same.
> >
> > I want to get this up and running so I can hold off on swapping my
> > turbo setup to it until I come back from cincy.
> >
> > On 4/7/07, Sean Whalen <hareless@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  I don't know if this will help, but I happened to be perusing the
> > >  A-2 book today and it says for a PL(I know it's CIS-E) no start
> > >  situation to hook an extra ground from the battery neg to the
> > >  chassis.  I used to have a 90 Passat and that Motronic drove me
> > > crazy, too.
> > >  On 4/7/07, Derrick floyd <tyrone27@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >  I just brought a 92 passat 16v and its won't start. Its not
> > > >  getting spark. I
> > > >  pulled a spark plug wire and used a new spark plug and grounded
> > > >  it to the
> > > >  motor while my brother cranked it and its not producing spark at
> > > > all.
> > > >  so I traced the problem further and I hooked a voltage meter up
> > > >  to the coil.
> > > >  I hooked the positive to the + side on the coil and negative to
> > > >  the - side
> > > >  of the coil and tested it with the ignition and while cranking
> > > >  and I'm not
> > > >  getting voltage. then I unhooked the ECU and connected a 12V
> > > >  wire from the
> > > >  jump box to the + side of the coil and still nothing.
> > > >
> > > >  Then I tested the small black nodule that is right next to the
> > > >  coil and removed the connector and tested each wire for power
> > > > and I'm not getting
> > > >  power from any of the wires.
> > > >
> > > >  So I'm at the point now where I don't know what else to check.
> > > >  Anyone have
> > > >  any suggestion on what to look at or check?
> > > >
> > > >  One thing I did notice is that when I turn on the ignition the
> > > >  clock on the
> > > >  dash goes out. I thought it was the battery until I put a jump
> > > >  box on the
> > > >  battery and it was still doing it with it cranking fast. Don't
> > > >  know if it
> > > >  helps but it something I noticed while trying to trouble shoot.
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> > >  Sean
> > >  A-1 x 2
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