Date:         Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:57:36 +0100
Reply-To:     Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Subject:      Re: more fuel problems!!!!
Comments: To: Dart 330 <dart330@HOTMAIL.COM>
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There is always the fourth possibility.....

You are out of gas!

;-)

rsf

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Robert S. Fish
Salzburg, Austria
1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
1987 Golf Cabriolet
1991 Golf

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dart 330" <dart330@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 6:07 AM
Subject: more fuel problems!!!!


> Well my van has been running perfectly since I put a new fuel pump on it
> until tonight. I started it up after being parked for a few hours to go to
a
> friends house and it is running normal and then all of a sudden NO power.
I
> thought well maybe the engine is cold and doesn't want to go up near 4k
rpm,
> so I upshift and keep on going and it stalls every couple minutes. I get
to
> the point where if I try to drive it dies. I restart, it idles and then I
go
> forward and it dies. A few taps on the fuel filter and I can drive a few
> blocks. I repeat this process until I get home (several miles away in the
> snow).
>
> I feel very angry as I thought my fuel problems were over. There are only
3
> possible solutions.
>
> 1. bad fuel pump (very unlikely)
> 2. ice in gas (never happened before)
> 3. rusty crap in fuel tank continues to clog fuel filter (really pissin me
> off)
>
> Either way I can't drive it tomorrow which screws me over, and I just
spent
> my tax return on new shocks and have no money for a tank replacement which
I
> guess I need. So are my only options to carry around a dozen fuel filters
> and replace it every time it does this, or is it possible to drop my tank
> and clean all the crud out of it and reinstall within a day or two?
>
> Sorry for venting but I am a little pissed off, all suggestions welcomed.
>
> Nathan
> 85 Westy
> 74 Bus
> 60 SO-23
>
>
>
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