Hey volks, My bus was getting bad gas mileage (12-13mpg) so I took it to my mechanic to have the mixture checked. He said it was rich. He leaned out the mixture and also popped the cover off the AFM (which I had done 6 months ago to clean it) and (I assume) moved the wiper arm to a new track. Now, when I first start it up, it runs like crap. If I just give it some gas, that doesn't help any. However, if I can get the bus moving (it's an automatic) and the RPMs up to approx. 3000 It then runs like a dream until I shut it off again. Engine and air temp don't seem to have anything to do with it because I can be driving for an hour, shut the bus off ant restart 5 min later and have the same thing happen. I just got a digitool installed (after the hard starting showed up) and all the LEDs seem to be going fine, but I am not proficient enough yet at reading the voltage values vs. what they should be to see if there's a problem there. Please help. Sean B. '90 V'gon, "Happy Bus" http://home.earthlink.net/~vgonman |
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