[V8] V8 cutting out at about 1800 rpm

[cobram at juno.com]

Maybe they changed something on later models (mine is an early 1989
build), but I forgot to connect the hall sender after doing a timing
belt, and drove around with it disconnected for more than a week, with no
noticeable problems except for some lack of power.  Mike L of this list
drove around for a while with a bad hall sensor in one of his V8Q's.  
On the V8Q, I vaguely recall a past thread about how no hall sensor
signal will back the timing 16 degrees (maybe 20..going from memory), and
disable the knock sensors. 

On the 5 cylinder type 44's, the car won't start at all with a bad hall
sensor, it's job is TDC #1 reporting at startup which has to match the
reference pin position. 

The hall sensors might still be available separately.  If someone (braver
than I) wants to weed through the V8Q archives, I recall a thread on the
subject in which a Qlister (hopefully reading this) found the hall sensor
kit from some VW application was a direct replacement for the V8Q hall
sensor.

BCNU,
http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/

"Alan Kramer" <ackramer at hotmail.com> writes:
> It's your hall sensor (in the passenger side distributor).   BTDT, 
> exact symptoms you describe.  Rebuilt ones can be obtained from your 
> favorite worldpac supplier.  New distributors are NLA.
> 
> Alan