Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:26:31 -0500
Reply-To: PNC Allen <milpo_buff@CNRC.NAVY.MIL>
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From: PNC Allen <milpo_buff@CNRC.NAVY.MIL>
Subject: Re: HELP!! Stalling, rain, leaking gas tank...
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true ! mine did the same thing. little silicon goop at the wire fraying
end of my o2 sensor fixed the problem on rainy days.
tim allen sends
buffalo ny
-----Original Message-----
From: mark drillock [mailto:drillock@EARTHLINK.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:44 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: HELP!! Stalling, rain, leaking gas tank...
As Dennis has pointed out, this type of problem is very likely OX sensor
related. I would suspect that someone has spliced a generic replacement
into the old OX wiring harness. If so, the splice may be getting wet and
messing up the reading that is seen by the ECU. Dry the spliced area
with a blow dryer. Then seal it up more completely such as by encasing
the entire area in a glob of silicone RTV.
Mark
Marc Perdue wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently sent messages about my leaking gas tank and my fairly
mild
> idle problems. Today, something different came up and I suspect it's
> related. We got 4 inches of rain today, three of which came down
before
> I went to work. This is a good thing because of our drought situation
> and on-going water restrictions, but perhaps not for my automatic '87
> Westy. After driving 15 miles into town, I was pulling away from a
stop
> light and the van started losing power. I was frantically putting on
> the hazard lights and finding a safe place to pull over and didn't
> notice the two red lights that had come on on the dash. When I
realized
> that the lights were on (hmm, which ones were they? The ones on the
> left. Is that helpful enough?), I put the transmission in neutral and
> restarted the van. It started right up and I drove up to the next
> traffic light where it did the same thing when I started to come to a
> stop. I restarted again, drove through the green light, turning left,
> and headed up a small hill, where it did it a third time. Got it
> started, drove a block to the parking lot where I normally park, and
it
> happened a fourth time. I coasted into a parking space and shut it
> down.
>
> Here's my suspicion as to what happened and please correct me if I'm
> wrong. Clearly I have a leak on the top of my gas tank (which was
> mostly full, BTW). I figured that water had gotten splashed up onto
the
> tank and into it and was causing my problem. Does this sound like
what
> happened to you? After work, I got some gas tank de-icer, poured it
in
> and drove home. It stalled once, a block after I started out.
Question
> is, will it run right tomorrow?
>
> Thanks for any and all advice and/or suggestions,
> Marc Perdue
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