I am no expert, but I had a similar problem... It was the idle stablizer thingy...located at the throttle linkage on the engine. Replacement part was anywhere from 170 to 200K. I yanked one off a Vanagon in a junkyard for 75.00 and it immediately fixed the problem. No tools were required. Regards.
Dane Tessler 87 Westfalia 138K Treasure Island, FL http://members.aol.com/Dane714/westfalia.html -----Original Message----- From: Chris Pittack <chrisp@MOSAIX.COM> To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM> Date: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 11:28 AM Subject: Idle Problem (87 Wasserboxer)
>Hey there, > >I'm having a unique idle problem. Here's the story: > >Dead Cold: Starts right up, idles at 1,100 for a few seconds and then >drops to 800...no problem. Never touched the accelerator. > >Start driving and between Dead Cold and 1/8 warm on temp gauge, will not >maintain idle. Drives fine but won't idle. After it stalls it's hard >to start but will eventually catch. You can get it to idle if you very >slowly bring the RPM's down to idle with the accelerator pedal. > >Warm: Idles perfectly! > >Any ideas...thanks-a-bunch. > >Chris P. >Seattle, WA >'89 Diesel Jetta "Jake" >'87 GL Wasserboxer "Rosa" >'82 Diesel Vanagon "Billie-Rae" |
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