Date:         Sun, 15 Jul 2001 08:45:47 -0700
Reply-To:     mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Thanks, and, uhhh, van misses
Comments: To: "Thomas D. Hanlon" <hanran@earthlink.net>
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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?
>
>