Can anyone help Captain and Mrs. Kirk?  Reply to
mailto:adrianeb@fast.net, not to me.  Thanks!

Coyote

>From: "Max & Adriane Kirk" <adrianeb@fast.net>
>To: <coyote@vanagon.com>
>Subject: HELP ME!!!!!
>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:05:55 -0500
>X-Priority: 3
>
>What's up,
>     I am an owner of a 1985 vanagon and am very new to the whole
>vanagon "scene". I have a question that I am hoping you can shed
>some light on, but first I would like to tell you how much
>vanagon.com has helped me so far. It has been an invaluable resource
>without which I would completly lost. Thank You very much! But
>getting back to my question, I bought my van in Nov of 99, at that
>time it had about 116K miles on it. At first everything was fine and
>the van ran great,however then it began to slowly lose power as I
>drove it. I changed the feul filter but that did not help. The power
>loss continued until finally the van stalled all together and would
>not run at all. My father suggested that the problem may lie in the
>catalytic converter, together we took it off and sure enough it was
>sufficiently clogged, apparently exhaust was being forced back into
>the engine causing it to "choke" and consequently lose power
>andeventually stall. We fixed that and the van ran very well, for a
>while. How however it seems to be inflicted with a whole new
>problem, and I am at my wits end trying to figure it out. It has
>lost a lot of it's former "pep" and many times will buck upon
>startoff  for what seems to be no good reason at all. Other times it
>will simply lurch forward a few times before it gets going, or it
>will simply not do anything even though I've got the clutch all the
>way up and the gas all the way down. I am completly baffled at what
>could be causing this. Please email me back with any insights you
>may have. HELP ME OBI WAN, YOUR MY ONLY HOPE!!!!
>
>
> Thank you and Keep on Truckin'
>
>-Matt Kirk
>

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