I have heard the "Capacator fix" mentioned many times but have not seen instructions on how to do it. Is there a "walk through" somewhere on the Vanagon site? -----Original Message----- From: Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 9:20 PM Subject: Re: Engine cutting out
>At 11:40 PM 1/10/99 -0800, you wrote: >>I have an 87 Westy that also had hesitation. Tried everything, > >>UNTIL I by accident found the following VW Technical Bulletin. >> >>Here is a copy and it applies to all watercooled Vanagons, not just the >Digifant ones (there is an updated bulletin no.92-02 that states all >waterboxers) ; >> >>Technical Bulletin blahblahblah (BIG snip): > >Which of course refers to the infamous harness cure that you can replicate >with a 22mf/35V tantalum capacitor. FWIW I did the same 'cure' to my son's >'92 8 valve 1.8 liter Golf with Digifant; after first carefully perusing >the Bentley wiring diagrams for the Vanagon & the Golf, deciding indeed >they were similar enough to try, we went ahead & did it to the Golf (he'd >been having similar cut-out problems to what we have with Vanagons) - and >it WORKED!!! He makes a 2k round trip several times a year, & when it >happened he'd just pull over, shut down, restart & go on until it'd do it >again. He just called & said it ran perfectly this time. > >Spend the $1.10 & one hour & be amazed!!! > >Austin |
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