Thanks to the owners of the other synchro at Hoover Dam who told me about this list while driving down the road last week. I've learned more in the five hours since logging on than in 12 years of questioning 10 different dealers. My engine is sometimes intermittant, usually at high altitude, in cold weather, on dry days after driving for about 30 minutes. The wiring harness fix, didn't. I think it may still be ESD related but this group has pointed out a number of other possibilities. A salesman in Grand Junction told me it happened to him while ferrying a new vanagon from Denver. Didn't seem to bother him enough to stop selling them. I lived in Germany for a year and it doesn't have low relative humidity like the US, so Germans probably don't see ESD problems. My engine has been through multiple versions of the head gasket game. Misery loves company. Thanks for your stories and advice. Tom L. Neal '87 Syncro with an original "D" sticker on the back window |
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