RE: Missing spark gremlin strikes again!!!

["Aaron Ness" <aaron@makuta.com>]

Is your ignition switch flaky?  It's a cheap fix.  I had a similar problem
no my '82, and I replaced the fuse/relay panel (which improved the situation
and kept my blower from popping fuses), and since I replaced the igntiion
switch last winter it hasn't missed a beat.

Aaron
'87 528e
'82 Scirocco
'70 Beetle
'82 Kawasaki GPz550


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Nate Mellom
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 11:40 AM
> To: Scirocco List
> Subject: Missing spark gremlin strikes again!!!
>
>
> List, I need some help.  Seems a little green gremlin keeps
> showing it's
> ugly head adn it's getting depressing.  This is on the '81.  For some
> reason, my car sometimes runs out of spark, and my car dies.
> Happened a
> couple of times now, I'll try and describe teh symptoms.
> I'll be driving, the car will start lurching and jumping and
> die, like
> all of a sudden I get intermittent spark.  Sometimes it will
> start, I'll
> get a few feet down the road, and it will happen again.
> Eventually it
> will refuse to start.  Last time it happened (couple of
> months ago), I
> followed the coil and specail coil checks in Bentley to the
> letter, and
> everything checked out.  Still no go.  So I pulled the cap and rotor,
> cleaned them off a little bit (they were still almost new), and guess
> what?  Yup, started.  So, on to last night.
> Coming home from work on teh interstate, I started feeling that
> trademark hesitation and hoped I'd get home.  I stopped at
> work (halfway
> home) and I checked my rotor for fun, and it's half gone.  Yup, the
> business end is completely disintegrated!  The contacts on
> the cap are
> scored badly too.  Somehow, it was still running with half a
> rotor!!!  I
> decided to try and limp home, which I did stopped at the parts store,
> got a  new cap and rotor, installed them, and now I'm stranded there.
>  It won't start.  I hooked up my timing light to check for spark, and
> there isn't any.  I changed my coil and it made no
> difference.  My fuel
> pump relay is also not turning on, which I think is related.
> Even if I
> jump the contacts, I get nothing.  Aside from the coil checks, ground
> checks, etc, what can I do to get my spark back?  Could I
> have a loose
> wire in the fuse block or something?  Fuses are all okay, by
> the way.  I
> need some help here, this is getting depressing.
> Thanks,
> Nate
> '81
> '84
>
>
> --
> Email LIST problems to: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org.
> To unsubscibe send "unsubscribe scirocco-l" in the message to
> majordomo@scirocco.org
>


--
Email LIST problems to: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org.
To unsubscibe send "unsubscribe scirocco-l" in the message to majordomo@scirocco.org