1984 4k - no start

[Tom Love]

This could be a fuel pump relay issue. Sometimes when they go bad you will 
lose spark (ignition) when it thinks your revs are too high. The fpr acts as 
your rev limiter.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bares, Vittorio" <Vittorio.Bares at nuance.com>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:42 AM
Subject: 1984 4k - no start


> So, has new wires, rotor, cap, plugs - was running fine - then about a
> week ago, while driving it - it just stopped running.
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> I cleaned the contacts on the coil - started again, but wasn't running
> well. Almost as if it was running on 4 cyl (it is a quattro 5cyl :-)). I
> was trying to diagnose by pulling one sparkplug at a time while it was
> running, not much change when I did so - consistently for all 5 plug
> wires.
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> Pulled the plug on the temp sensor in the rear of the head - no diff.
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> Pulled the plug on the sensor that is on the fuel distributor - no diff.
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> This morning - no start...
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> No spark.
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> I'm thinking hall sensor??
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> Vittorio -
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