Date:         Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:40:28 -0500
Reply-To:     Anthony Bailey <abailey@MAC.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Anthony Bailey <abailey@MAC.COM>
Subject:      '87 Automatic acceleration
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Hello all, after driving my '87 Vanagon GL with the automatic around the
hilly rural area that I live in a question comes to mind... Is there any
way (other than an engine swap) to improve the take off performance?

Another person had posted about the stiffness of the accelerator pedal,
mine seems stiff also and kicking it down in to 2nd is possible but hard
to do at times.

I also did my first oil change this weekend. Wonderful, it sure beats my
other vehicles on ease of this job. However, when the book says not to
overfill, its not kidding. I did overfill just a little and the van ran
noisly and bad. I drained a little so it was back down to the middle of
the hi and lo areas on the dipstick. It ran fine after doing this.
hmmm...
Tony

this is coming to you from Anthony Bailey KC0HZP
(mailto:abailey@mac.com) Marble Hill, Missouri 63764