NEED HELP ASAP! - calling all VR6 gurus (SOLVED/FIXED!)

[marc_scirocco at sympatico.ca (Mtl-Marc)]

Man that is nice to hear. GL with the drive.

Thumbs up for Armond. I remember his pristine car too.

Cheers,

Marc 

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Allyn [mailto:amalventano1@xxxxxxx] 
> 
> And the crank sensor was the culpret!
> 
> Turns out Pittsburgh has a kick-ass VW crowd.  Including our 
> buddy Armond (who showed up 2 Cincys ago in the complete 
> restore red 16v).  Armond took me to the local VW guru, who 
> had no less than 20 dubbs in and around his shop, and a VR6 
> sitting on a crate out front.  He yanked the needed sensors 
> off and generously donated them to get me home.
> 
> More to follow (14 hour drive tomorrow - I'll post again on Sunday).
> 
> Thanks to those who threw suggestions out there, and super 
> crazy thanks to Armond.
> 
> Al 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: calimus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:calimus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 8:02 PM
> > To: Scirocco-l; Allyn
> > Subject: Re: NEED HELP ASAP! - calling all VR6 gurus
> > 
> > I think there might be a hall sender on the crack or cam of the VR6 
> > (not sure), if that fails, it should end in a no spark 
> situation, just 
> > like our 16v roccos.  Couldn't say thats what the issue is, 
> but it's 
> > possible.  Best thing to do is see if a local autozone can 
> lend you a 
> > OBDII reader and find out what the car was bitching about 
> in the first 
> > place, might be a nice clue to the source of the issue.  Or better 
> > yet, Hit this link and filter by city, there are several in 
> pittsburg 
> > that Have VAGcom's.
> > http://www.steve-hall.com/cgi-bin/VAG-Locator.pl
> > 
> > Most of them will come and Vag the car for beer/dinner or just for 
> > shits & grins.  Wish ya broke down closer to home, I could 
> Vag the car 
> > for ya.
> > 
> > Good Luck,
> > William S.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Allyn" <amalventano1@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 3:18 PM
> > Subject: NEED HELP ASAP! - calling all VR6 gurus
> > 
> > 
> > > OK,
> > >
> > > So I picked up a 97 GLX VR6 Passat in PA.  Flew out there
> > to drive home.
> > Stopped at my cousins in Pittsburg last night.  Check
> > > engine light came on during hard rain about 20 mins from
> > their house, but
> > had no impact on drivability.  This morning - no start.
> > > Cranks fine, but no spark.  Did some troubleshooting (with
> > their limited
> > house tools, ugh).  With some creative mcgyver stype
> > > jumpering, I bench test the coil pack (works).  So the fault lies
> > somewhere before the coil pack (not getting signal).  I've checked
> > > all under-dash fuses and all harness connections I could
> > easily get to,
> > including the computer (rain tray).  Everything seems fine.
> > >
> > > Anyhow, I have no technical background with the VR6 and cant find
> > schematics anywhere online.  Has anyone troubleshot these at all?
> > > I'm basically stuck about 14 hours from home because of
> > some (likely)
> > minor issue that's preventing spark trigger.  I basically need
> > > to know where to take readings for troubleshooting.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> > > 912-227-2081
> > > Al
> > >
> > >
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