Folks-

i've been battling my 82 242 for a while and it's time for some outside help.

it was displaying intermitttent starting problems (turning over, not firing) and i thought i had it pegged to the igniton system, an early style electronic hall system. after failing to figure out what the problem was I bought a canadian vacuum/mechanical advance distributor which i converted to pertronix.

after installing this I still have the intermittant starting issues, and it only runs at 40 degrees BTDC at idle, and it also lopes and almost stalls. this is not the vacuum unit, since clamping that off doesn't affect it.

these most recent tests are with the fuel pump relay out and jumpered. recently i thought that was the problem, but jumpering also only gives me intermittant starting results.

the haynes manual is less than helpful about the wiring of this year. i've taken to trying to extrapolate from an old bentley vw manual that covers '82 rabbits with CIS. needless to say i'm here and it hasn't helped either.

so- here's the scenario- i don't know what parts of the CIS system need juice, but i suspect the idle bypass isn't working. What do i need to hotwire to establish if that's the problem?

thanks!

ralph