Date:         Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:42:43 -0500
Reply-To:     Max/Joyce Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Max/Joyce Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject:      Re: bucking/ what fix
Comments: To: Jason Willenbrock <pooncerelli@hotmail.com>
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although I've never had the bucking problem  , I did have the horrendous
flat spot coming off of idle.  theRadio Shack capacitor fix didn't solve the
problem.  Replacing O 2 sensor with the expensive 3 wire unit and putting in
new AFM box  did solve the problem.  Needed the O2 sensor anyway, so can't
say for sure which did fix the problem.

Dimwitted Moose and Flying Squirrel
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Willenbrock <pooncerelli@hotmail.com>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:59 AM
Subject: bucking/ what fix


>how many people have solved their bucking with the wiring harness?  how
many
>have solved it other ways?  i replaced my temp sensor (the blue one,
right?)
>and still after about ten hours of driving the bucking starts again.  i
stop
>and get gas and then the bucking comes back by the time the tank is half
>full.  this happens religiously and i have driven cross country three times
>using this method.  i guess filling it up give the ecu(?) a chance to cool
>down a little, but then in about 180 miles it commences.  when road trip is
>over, a couple days rest brings her back to no more bucking, unless 10
hours
>of road time comes along.  so what to do?  install harness, replace ecu?  i
>am rebuilding my engine will this have any effect?  rather than replace a
>bunch of little parts, i would rather get to the source and be done with
it.
>  also, another symptom is, at start up the idle is too low and almost
dies,
>then all of the sudden it surges right up to where it should be, is this
>caused by the same problem or something else?
>thanks
>jason
>90 gl
>82 westy
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