Actually I just changed my O2 Sensor last month on Joel Walkers Recommendation .. So I didn't think it was the problem. I just had my exhaust changed and was thinking of him saying he had a hard time removing my o2 sensor.. So Possibly it was damaged in the deal. yesterday on the way home I unplugged the 2 wires but forgot and left the green wire plugged in yesterday so today I tried again and unplugged all three wires it seems to be working, thanks for having me review what I had done... Well at least it hasn't done it since.. /athacker -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of Evan Mac Donald Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:47 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Black Smoke and Poor Performance Intermitent
Adam - My '85 did the same thing. Intermittent failures / faults will drive you nuts! But my solution ended up being the good ole O2 sensor. I later had a slightly different rough running / poor milage problem that I tried EVERYTHING to fix - new distributor, cap, wires, rotor, plugs, brain, temp sensor II, and could not get it to go away. It turned out to be the ignition module. After I replaced that, my idle was steady and smooth, and my milage is now on the high side of 17 MPG. I did not consider the the module as the failure point, because I thought that the module was one of those "works / stops working" failure items. It was not. The '87 does not have the same igition set-up as the '85, but there are components that do the same jobs... Adam Thacker <87westy@THACKER.CA> wrote: 1987 Vanagon GL I am having the exact same problem as the person below but when I tried his email address it bounced on me if anyone has any Ideas of why this is happening to me or who Knows Neal Helfman's New Email address I would appreciate a reply. Like I say I am having the exact same problem as him I just have not replaced all the parts he did. |
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