Date:         Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:19:21 EDT
Reply-To:     JordanVw@AOL.COM
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From:         JordanVw@AOL.COM
Subject:      [vanagon] fwd Re: Sudden death syndrome, 83.5, 1.9l,
              problem fixed!
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fwd from the vanagon spare list...

Subj:   [vanagon] Re: Sudden death syndrome, 83.5, 1.9l, problem fixed!
Date:   4/7/07 6:14:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:   keithwwalker@yahoo.com
To: vanagon@yahoogroups.com
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I fixed my sudden death problem.

Actually, I caused it by replacing the defective rubber boot between
the air flow sensor/air box and the throttle.

When I put in a part that wasn't leaking air into the engine, I made
the idle circuit rich and that caused the bad idle and at worst, a
complete stall out.

I adjusted the air bleed screw and it idles well now, and no stalls
and no sudden death!

Sometimes if you fix something, you have to think of the
consequences....you just may have to adjust something else.

Keith Walker

--- In vanagon@yahoogroups.com, "keithwwalker" <keithwwalker@...> wrote:
>
> 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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