Date:         Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:38:43 +0000
Reply-To:     fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET
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From:         Joseph Fortino <fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Intermittent Syndrome?
Comments: To: Dan Haydon <DanHaydon@CORNERSTONESOFTWARE.COM>
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Dan,

Does it cut out while driving at speeds? jerking and such? seems
my airflow meter has been playing games least I think its this unit,
it will be like someone is pushing the gas pedel all over the place
while i'm driving. I opened the box and yes my track is worn out a bit
but noticed that it vibrates alot and might be loosing contact with the
strip on the airflow meter?

also i'll be driving and have the pedel on to only have it loose power and
slowly just turn off, I'll need to turn the key to fire it up again, no hard starting problems just cut outs and it will die, down shifting or putting the
pedel on more will not even help while i'm running.

Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Haydon [mailto:DanHaydon@CORNERSTONESOFTWARE.COM]
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 03:04 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Intermittent Syndrome?
>
> Hello,
>
> This past weekend, I was cruising down the road and my oil light turned on. The heat gauge indicator was well below the half-way point, and the light stayed on for about 10-15 minutes until the motor began to cut-out intermittently. At one point it died and I was able to restart the motor and drive home. The next day the same thing happened, although without any indication from the blinking oil light. This time she just died and I was unable to start it for a few hours, seemingly after she had cooled off.
>
> This just started over the weekend, and I can think of anything that I've done to the van to precipitate this behavior. I do have a rear main seal leak. Can it be that the oil light is coming on because I am losing oil pressure, hence the motor failure?
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated,
> Dan Haydon
>