hello, 'thought i'd stick this up in the electrical section as have been talkin bout it in engines... am unable to start my mk2 valver. after i found a weak spark from the plugs, RAC man tested the ignition coil etc and found that the hall sender was at fault - he shorted the connector and the spark from the ht lead coming out of the coil was proper big. i went and found myself cheap 2nd hand distributor and fitted it, the problem is still there though - weak spark / can't start. lightning does strike twice and i think i've ended up with two dodgy dizzys/hall senders. so, i reckon i'm going to buy myself a new distributor tomorrow and fit that, and hope it works. before i go splashing out (and after scouring the forum and internet), i just wondered if anyone had any suggestions - about shorting etc..? cheers in advance!
replace the hall sensor with a replacment one from VAG, the new ones dont have wires inside the dizzy
Or if you feel you're able to strip the dizzy down yourself, just buy the hall sender from GSF, when I priced one up it was about 26 for the sender. The wires are supposed to be kept away from the trigger ring but have a habit of coming free and it slices into the wire and earths the sender wire out eventually which could explain the weak spark. Edited by: mr purple
Im after putting a new hall sender into my 16V Dist. Full diagram for dismantling it in the haynes manual but it's straight foward enough to do - just rem how it came apart. If you run into bother I have pics of mine disambled or I can scna the haynes book for you. Edited by: jamesd
i need this sorted in a hurry so i've wussed-out, its gonna be sorted at the garage tomorrow. thanks though for the tips, if i had more time and spare car to get to work in then i'd probably be happy to do the dizzy rebuild.
The ignition coil possibly?Just `cos he checked it doesn`t mean he was right.Second opinion is required. Edited by: DAVE 2227
hall sender was knackerd got it replaced and fitted by a garage who (you'll like this...) changed the leads around coming from the dizzy cap so the car wouldn't start, then left me cos they were busy saying they'd come back later... abit of swappery and a jump start later and i was away! crappy garage, my mum goes there all the time with here polo hearse thing.
