16v timing/something? trouble

[treed2 at u.washington.edu (T. Reed)]

A new dist including hall sender, new cap and rotor is only $175-ish from
potterman and all you need is a 10mm wrench to put it on yourself.

As far as your 'new' problem after touching the dist, you could have
installed the distributor in the wrong set of bolt holes (there are two),
moved spark plug wires from their proper order (if you removed them),
failed to seat the distributor cap properly, or something else along these
lines.

-Toby

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, ian Butler wrote:

> In order to force the point that I need a winter beater, my Scirocco (88
> 16v) died this week, 30 miles from home.  It had been cutting out
> occasionally on the freeway, stalling for just a couple seconds, tach
> dropping to zero, before it would resume running properly like nothing had
> happened.  It quit entirely and refused to restart as I was driving around
> town and I had to tow it to the closest place, which was, unfortunately,
> Howard Cooper Volkswagen.
>
> So!  They decided that oil leaking into the distributor messed up the Hall
> sender and that I should replace both the distributor and the Hall sender to
> the tune of $900.  I pulled the distributor and re-epoxied the (broken) Hall
> connector, which has been a problem before; I didn't find any significant
> oil deposits inside though.  While it was running fine briefly before I
> pulled the distributor, it now hardly runs regardless of how I set the
> timing, what kind of throttle it gets, etc.  What might I have broken to
> cause this?  I've never pulled a distributor before.
>
> Apologies for the long post; I've only got a few days of storage in this
> neighboring town in order to fix it.
>
> ian Butler / ian@bluemoon.hplx.net
> '88 Scirocco 16v, '87 Vanagon Syncro GL
>
>
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