Bob McKnight wrote:

I installed a VW with Electronic Fuel Injection (first model) in my
sand buggy.  We  were stopped for a rest and somebody wanted
me to move my buggy.  I set my can of V-8 juice on the rear luggage
rack and started the engine.  I put it in gear and started to move.
The engine stopped and would not start.  I got pulled back to camp.
The computer (analog on early VWs) was  kaaput.  A couple days
later I figured out what happened.  The V-8 can fell onto the Field
winding of the generator shorting it to gnd which caused an immediate
rise in the voltage that got to the computer and blew the
transistors.  The battery was in the circuit,  but the spike got to
the transistors.  I put a carbed engine in.
I am back with EFI engines because I never liked carbs.

Bob McKnight

 
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