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Date:         Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:36:06 EDT
Reply-To:     JordanVw@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         JordanVw@AOL.COM
Subject:      '83.5   1.9L wbx engine cutout question. (forwarded from the
              spare vanagon list)
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maybe some of y'all can shed some light on this...?

Subj: [vanagon] Sudden death syndrome, 83.5, 1.9l Date: 4/5/07 1:06:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: keithwwalker@yahoo.com To: vanagon@yahoogroups.com Sent from the Internet (Details)

OK, so I was driving my doka the past few days and the idle was bad, as if a plug was dirty and was missing.

After a while it would get better.

Well last night, the idle did not get better, and then I was driving up an incline in 2nd gear and lugging the engine, and then the engine just flat out died.

I tried cranking it over and none of the cylinders were firing (fuel pump was OK too). I feared I may of flooded the engine, so I opened the throttle all the way to clear out the engine and that didn't work.

So I parked the doka and when I got back 2 hours later is started right up! No bad idle, no problems.

I believe that there is some sort of electronic problem here. Perhaps the idle stabilizer, TPS, or distributor?

Can anyone give advice? I don't want to get stranded...

Keith Walker

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