Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 23:06:09 -0330
Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
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From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Hesitation...kind of...
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This sounds like the problem I've been trying to get diagnosed and fixed in
my van for a year now. It started out quite intermittent, mechanics never
could see it happen and therefore had no way to diagnose and fix it. Got
worse and worse till the van was pretty much undriveable but at least my
mechanic could observe the problem. After much poking and prodding, he
decided it was the air flow meter. Got a new one, still have the problem.
His latest theory is that the AFM needs adjusting - I'm bringing the van in
tomorrow for that.
I'll be amazed if my van EVER works properly again. Or works at all, since
I won't drive it with it dying all the time.
Sorry, I daresay that isn't very encouraging! But you probably know more
about van mechanics than I do. The mechanical issues, that is - not the
people who fix them. I"m getting to know the people who fix them much
better than I ever wanted to.
Joy
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Daniel Rotblatt <d.rotblatt@verizon.net>wrote:
> The symptoms are: after driving about 100 miles on the freeway and then
> hitting some traffic the van seemed to hesitate when I pushed on the gas
> then it would accelerate. If it had a carburetor like cars I know how to
> work on, I would say that the accelerator jet was clogged. As it is, I'm
> sure it's some computer sensor thing. The next day on the trip back I
> didn't have the problem. '85 Westy, 1.9 L.
>
> Background: I've had the car since april and it runs well, but when
> coming back from Santa Fe this summer the car exhibited vanagon disease -
> that hesitation on the highway for a moment, then again, then again, then
> you stop wait and start up again and it's fine until it starts again. I
> did notice that this occured less at night (when the temperature was below
> 100 outside). Made it back and a month or so ago I did the capacitor fix
> on the AFM from this site:
>
> http://www.benplace.com/vanagon_intermittent_syndrome.htm
>
> This new hesitation does not feel the same, and the weather was cool (65
> degrees). I'm off to BBB on Wednesday, so right now I'm just hoping for
> the best. If this is something obvious maybe I can fix it before then.
>
> Thank in advance!
>
>
> Dan
> Los Angeles, CA
> "Winky" the '85 Westy Weekender
>
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