Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 13:47:43 -0500
Reply-To: Larry Alofs <lalofs@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Larry Alofs <lalofs@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Trouble with '85 1.9l wasserboxer in Europe
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If you don't have a practical way to check the fuel delivery rate, just try
replacing the fuel filter.
Larry A.
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble with the '85 Westy my wife and I have in Europe.
> We came here and picked it up in Munchen, but only got to the border
> of France when trouble started. We are currently in a small village in
> Alsace.
>
> While driving the 1.9l wasserboxer first lost power and backfired on
> steep uphills, then shortly started loosing power at any time, until
> we had to creep off the highway on idle until the next exit.
>
> We luckily ended up at a supermarket with some limited auto supplies.
> During the day today I tried:
>
> Measured resistances on airflow meter. Both temp sender and airflow
> checks ok. Temp sender is 2kohm. For the air flow the resistance is
> varying
> when pushed as expected.
>
> The engine idles well and idle rpm is steady. When rpm is raised to
> about 4000 under no load the engine stumbles, rpm drops and sometimes
> it backfires. With the intent to see if it was a fuel-air mixture problem
> I tried to enrichen and lean the mixture by poking the air flow meter
> flap a little. (At least this is the effect I hoped it would have)
> This did not seem to help.
>
> We test drove a bit around the village roads.
> During driving the stumbling can come at any time. Sometimes power comes
> back after a backfire, sometimes the engine dies. It will restart without
> problem after dying.
>
> In case the problem was related to sticky valves I bought and used some
> valve cleaning gas additative, and did an oilchange with an engine
> flushing
> and cleaning substance (said it could unstick valves on bottle - smelled
> and felt like kerosene).
>
> Before the trip compression tested ok (10,10,10,9.5bar) I don't have
> a compression tester with me.
>
> Anyone has ideas for what else to test? I have a basic socket set and
> a multimeter with me. I also recall some posts years ago fixing
> stumbling problems with a capacitor over the" air flow meter output.
> Anyone recalls details. (I somehow failed to find it in
> the archives under capacitor and stumble)
>
> Failing finding the problem we will try to make it back to Germany.
> Anyone knows how to find a good mechanic in or near Saarbruecken?
> (we're about 20km south of Saarbruecken now)
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
>
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