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Date:         Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:11:43 -0700
Reply-To:     Bill <bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bill <bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
Subject:      Re: '81 Westy Cold Hesitation
Comments: To: RRR RRR <ranjencam@YAHOO.COM>
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How is that fifth fuel injector working? You know, the one that feeds it extra gas when cold.

At 07:21 PM 12/14/99 -0800, RRR RRR wrote: >'81 Westy 2L aircooled, manual trans. Runs like a dog >when cold, it idles fine, but acts like it's running >out of gas, or the ignition is shutting down when >accelerating, big time hesitation, won't take any gas >at all and sometimes dies. She runs great after a >llllooonnngg warm-up. So far I have replaced the fuel >pump and filter, blocked off the EGR, Checked the >AFM/temp sensor with a multimeter, auxiliary air >regulator, cylinder head temp sensor, and freshened up >the distributor, everything was hunky dory. I don't >think it's the O2 sensor since the idle is fine at all >times, and I believe the O2 sensor only comes into >play below 3000rpm, but could be wrong. Thanks in >advance for the replies. Oh by the way, I live in >Southern California so when I say cold I mean an >outside temp of 50-60 degrees farenheit. >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. >Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com > Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com ---------------------------------------------------------- Censorship is the assassination of ideas. No matter how well-meaning its proponents may be, they are more dangerous to us than any outside enemy.


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