My 84 exhibited similar symptoms. It turned out to be the engine grounds. I suggested this to my mechanic when I brought it in, since I had read on the list about how important it was to keep the ground connections solid. He wasn't interested and went about methodically (and expensively) checking everything, he even had me replace the ECU with a known good one. He had my van for about three weeks. Finally he called me up and said it was fixed. He said that the final things that he tried were cleaning the grounds and replacing the fuel pump relay and that one or both of these fixed the problem. My money's on the grounds. Brian 84 Westy |
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