I dunno much about the WBX motors or automatic vanagons but your symptoms sound like it gets a Vapor Lock....It sounds like you are getting heat into the fuel system somehow causing the fuel system to deliver air rather than fuel. Are you certain your temperatures are correct? A faulty ground can cause your coolant temp gauge to read really low. 230 oil temp IS quite warm...right at the top of where you want to see it go no higher.... If any of your fuel lines run near a heat source or perhap the fuel rail is missing some heat shielding? Another lesser possibility is the coil...Sometimes they get wonky when they're really hot and they are on the point of failing....I might go there first, even if you recently put a new one in....New one have been known to come faulty... Don Hanson On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Rocket J Squirrel < camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote: > ADDITIONAL BIT 0' INFORMATION: Though we were climbing up very steep, > long grades in 90F+ (over 100F on one day) temperatures, at no time did > the engine register too hot. Oil temp was below 230F, temp gauge barely > made it to the right of the LED. > > -- > Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott > 1984 Westfalia, auto trans, > Bend, Ore. > |
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