Vanagon surging/stalling

[Barry]

I am having issues with my vanagon 2.1L

I am sure it is in the dizzy??

I had the heads "reset" the other day (early December)
They had been leaking so we took the heads off and put new sealant there and all was well for a month
Obviously for this the manifolds etc etc all had to come off
As i said - all was well for a while

When this was done the mechanic showed me that the connector to the distributor was dodgy so he put some cable ties around the distributor to hold in place.

In the last 2 days it has started missing and stalling

I am sure it is the connector as if you have a "bit of a fiddle" it will run fine again for a little while (5 mins to a day)

Symptons are worse case - stalling
More common is not responding to throttle
Mainly on take off

a) does this sound like distributor trouble

b) new dizzys seem hard to come by. Can i wack a 009 in there?? or a 009 with electronic ignition??

Thanks

Barry

[wildthings]

It sounds like the tiny wires feeding your Hall unit are shot. You can repair the wires if you can get at them or just replace the Hall unit. I don't remember what they cost, but it wasn't all that much.

You may also have vacuum leaks. While you had the engine partially disassembled it would have been a good time to renew every piece of rubber in the intake air system.

[Barry]

OK - pretty sure i have it sorted

Connector is loose - but that aint the problem
It was the other way.
After much cutting away of wiring loom "conduit" as when i was jiggling the main loom she was surging
Turned out to be the sensor plaug to the water temp sensor was loose.

The other part of the problem was the oxygen sensor connector near the head on the LHS was disconnected.
My guess was it wasnt connected properly (if at all) after the work on the heads

Anyway - all seems to be fine now

Have found (hopefully) a new distributor so will grab that and replace anyway

Barry