I looked at the cap and rotor [and plugs] in So Cal. All looked fine. Darn thing. Thanks, mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas D. Hanlon <hanran@earthlink.net> To: mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>; Vanagon <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 6:29 AM Subject: Re: Thanks, and, uhhh, van misses
> Mike, > One consideration...... > Unless the rotor and the distributor cap are Bosch (and, definitely, not Wells, > from your FLAPS) you may experience missing, as I did, and either a burned rotor > and/or a burned cap. Check the conditions of the rotor and the cap. > > Tom Hanlon > Palm Springs, CA > 84 Westfalia > > mike miller wrote: > > > Dear wise listees [you can tell I want something] > > > > Thank you for the responses to the transmission problem. Turned out to be a > > blown pilot bearing, apparently it hadn't been changed when the last clutch > > job or two were done. Darn > > > > Missing. > > > > The van started missing under load on a trip to Southern California [from > > northern Cal.]. After the clutch job drove it once and it was fine. Then > > as soon as I started back to Nor Cal it started missing again. this time > > felt like it was running on 3 cylinders. Then it would clear and run fine, > > then back to missing. > > > > Was smogged just prior to trip and passed OK, not great though. > > > > Had new Bosch single platinum's in it, new rotor and cap. Changed the > > platinum's to copper Bosch in Southern Cal. Checked rotor and cap, just > > generic FLAPS stuff but looked OK. Ran the van and sprayed brake clearer at > > every air bearing surface I could find, no change in engine note. > > > > Got 20 mpg going south and from 15 to 18 coming north [against a very stiff > > wind]. > > > > Any ideas what to look at from you oh wise list gurus? > > > > TIA > > > > Mike > > > > Oh, forgot that I put two new wheels on it that I got from BenT. Do you > > suppose he did me in? > > |
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