followup to Re: odd 2113 behavior, '89 200q, MC1

[James Marriott]

Sadly, the  problem was not a timing error (rotating the
distributor a bit each way didn't help), and it quickly went from
intermittent to kaput. A new distributor ($195 at
www.importpartsspec.com, with cap and rotor) cured it. Thanks for
all the replies.

cu, James Marriott
'84 4kq beater, 217k
'87 4kq (alias "late-B2 90q") with rare NG engine, 183k
'89 200q (MC1, ProconTen/no bag, 1.8 blah blah), 142k
Boise, ID, USA     http://www.webpak.net/~marriott/
www.ringsperformance.com

----- Original Message -----
From: James Marriott <marriott at micron.net>
To: Scott Mockry <sjmauto at teleport.com>; quattro
<quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 7:52 PM
Subject: odd 2113 behavior, '89 200q, MC1


> All,
>
> My poor buddy Ben conned his parents into riding SIX HOURS in
his
> way-cool ringsmobile for Christmas dinner at grandpa's. The car
> ran great 50% of the time, then wouldn't start at the filling
> station for the trip home. 2113 was the only code. He had the
car
> towed to a nearby shop, and they mooched a ride back home from
> his uncle. The next AM, the shop goes to "diagnose" the car and
> it starts up and pulls in the shop on its own. Repeated
restarts
> with no issues. A cousin drove the car home today with no
issues.
>
> 2113 is supposed to be hall (distributor) sensor. Do these
> buggers fail intermittently? What's the fix? (sensor, entire
> dist, etc) And should I proactively change mine?
>
> tia and cu, James Marriott
> '84 4kq beater, 217k
> '87 4kq (alias "late-B2 90q") with rare NG engine, 181k
> '89 200q (MC1, ProconTen/no bag, 1.8 blah blah), 141k
> Boise, ID, USA     http://www.webpak.net/~marriott/
> www.ringsperformance.com