Date:         Fri, 24 Jan 1997 17:53:32 -0800 (PST)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Beth Young <young@sherlock.sims.berkeley.edu>
Subject:      Re: Gremlins update

On Fri, 24 Jan 1997 rudyb@sonic.net wrote:

> Hello Folks! My saga continues with a myriad of little misfires and no
> starts. To date I've had more help from this list than from both of the
> shops I've taken it (80 Vanagon-CA with CA emission controls)-and lot less
> expensive. But never the less a intermittent problem exist.
> List of replaced parts
> 1) coil
> 2) air flowmeter
> 3) cylindar head temp sensor
> 4) thermo time switch
> 5) dual relay
> 6) cap, rotor, wires
> 7) fuel pump-it was making lots of gurgitating sounds
> 8) ecu module (Halls control module)
> 9) key starter switch on steering column

I remember you!  (I'm interested in all those good old parts you must be 
pilling up!)

The intermittent misses can be tough, but I recall you also had no-starts.
Did you determine whether the no-start was caused by lack of fuel or lack
of spark?  How's the idle?  High?  Low?  

There's not much to replace.  You don't mention fuel filter in the 
above.  I understand that a clogged filter might possibly cause these 
symptoms; junk clogs up the filter causing the engine to fail.  After 
sitting a spell the junk settles off the element of the filter allowing 
fuel to flow until the filter clogs again.

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Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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