Re: Car is stalling...help!!

["Rich Zuk" <emt@imcnyc.com>]

Before I read Bentley's, How can I be sure it is or is not the Hall Sender?

>3. I had a problem with my '81 were it started badly one morning and got
>worse and worse as I drove to work until it wouldn't run under 2-3k. It
>sounded/ ran like a diesel. I was able to restart it if I let it conk out
>on the freeway at 1st. After I was able to baby it into the parking lot at
>work it would not start at all. ore my hair out trying to figure what was
>wrong. Bought all kinds of new parts I didn't need.  urned out to be the
>Hall Sensor built into the distributer. The wires ( up under the cap ), had
>gotten brittle over time. Even though I could test for continuity it was
>failing to pass enough signal and finally I discovered it when one of them
>snapped. Slapped in another distributer from the pick n' pull and I'm back
>on the road.
>
>hth,
>TBerk
>


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