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Date:         Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:08:45 -0500 (EST)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         limbo@bcn.net (Jim Digennaro)
Subject:      VW story and helpful hint.

Hi Volks, I had an interesting experience that I thought someone might enjoy. Yesterday, on my way home for lunch I was getting ready to shift from 2nd to 3rd when the motor made this horrible Bang the engine lost power. The whole van started to vibrate. I noticed the shifter got really loose and the gas peddle went almost to the floor before engine would rev up. The dash lights started flashing and the seat belt buzzer went off. I tried to give it gas and it would bang again. It was the weirdest thing I've ever experienced. At first I thought I blew up the engine. Turns out the bolt fell out of the front trans mount and the engine was rocking back and forth banging against the body. While lying in a slush puddle, replacing the missing bolt, I noticed the ground strap from the trans to the body was snapped off. While driving around makeing sure everything was OK the dash lights kept flashing and the buzzer was still going off. So I replaced the ground strap and everything is great. The point of this story? Well, back over the summer once in a while the dashlights would flash and the seat belt buzzer would go off. I also noticed a couple of posts with Volks having similar problems. So I thought that perhaps if you have this problem, you may want to check that ground strap to make sure its making good contact. While your down there, make sure that tran mount bolt is tight.=) Take care.

-Jim Digennaro ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- LiMBO, The Late Model Bus Organization, international zzzzzzzzzzzzz_ |E[__][__]|[_]\\ '82 Westfaila 'GTi' | _ LiMBO| _ || 'The VW DJ' =-( )------( )-== James Digennaro, LiMBO Treasurer, Merchandise sales and Webmaster. 20 First St E-mail: limbo@bcn.net Adams, MA 01220 URL: http://www.bcn.net/~limbo/ LiMBO LINE: (413) 743-1814 'Transporters By The Tunnel' A fun camping event held July ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


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