Pumping the brake pedal and then starting the engine does have the pedal drop, so I'm thinking that the vacuum servo line is okay. I will drive it to work today with the line plugged and allow extra time for stopping to see how the idle vacuum readings shake out. I put the old Behr Thompson(german made) Tstat back in and the cooling issues seem to have gone away for the time being. FWIW, the Wahler Tstat(german made also) I bought from Autohausaz seems to be the culprit. Motor still stumbles, so I think an injector test for volume and spray pattern is next. Fuel pressure is still down about5/6#, so maybe the volume numbers will sniff out a weak pump or dirty crud in the tank. Got two weeks before we needthe van to move our daughter to college. Thanks to all DM&FS AZAt 08:36 PM 8/5/2008, Max Wellhouse wrote: >Troops: In my saga of poor performing () GL 2.1 motor syndrome, I >went through the Haynes British manual I got from Bus Depot and went >through their troubleshooting guide. With all my performance issues, >the one thing that keeps showing up in their analysis is Vacuum >Leak. Sure, low compression and fuel injection issue come in 2nd and >3rd, but I don't have hot and cold start issues which both state that >low compression could be the cause of that. > >I do also have a lot of travel in my brake pedal despite repeated >adjustments to the rear shoes and the front disc pads have plenty of >meat left on them. Under their listing of "excessive brake pedal > > >Thanks > >DM&FS |
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