Date:         Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:20:49 -0500
Reply-To:     Fred Younger <f1y@CSM1.DOIT.WISC.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Fred Younger <f1y@CSM1.DOIT.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Extreme high idle
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com
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>From: Philip Menchions <pbj2003@INFONET.ST-JOHNS.NF.CA>
>Subject: Extreme high idle
>
[snip]
>  On the way home rev,s seemed to stay up "on their own" only dropping
>going up steep grades. Short distance from driveway decided to put the
>transmission in neutral (auto tranny) to see if rev's would drop. Well
>all hell broke loose. Tach went into the red. Much screeching from engine
>compartment and red lights all over the dash. Shut off and tried
>restarting with same result.
[snip]
>
>Phil Menchions
>,89 Westfalia

I've had runaway engine problems in a 77 van and an 85 vanagon.  They always
occurred in the winter, and they always went away after the engine warmed
up, or I pulled over and jiggled the heck out of the throttle linkage at
the engine end.  I always suspected ice build up somewhere but I never
figured out where.  Putting Heet in the gas didn't fix it.

Of course you're presumably not experiencing winter right now, so this
probably doesn't help.

Fred Younger
91 GL (still waiting for meltdown on this one)