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

[amalventano1 at tds.net (Allyn)]

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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