At 11:57 4/25/2000, Gregor Brandt wrote:
>I cracked open my air filter over the weekend to change the filter and
>clean things up a bit. I noticed that the air pipe right after the AFM was
>wet.  It was a very dirty black colour with some chunks in it.  Didn;t
>smell like anything (I should have tried to light it to see if was gas).
>Any ideas.  Van runs great, fuel economy is a bit down from last summer.
>This is an '84 automatic tranny.

I'd expect to see oil in there, but the chunks don't sound right.  Whatever
is in there is inside the filtered intake, and anything hard getting into
the motor itself could do great damage.  Something rubber perishing maybe?

>On another tangent, My O2 light hasn't come on yet, I've put about 70,000
>km on it since I bought it.  When does the light come on?

On the '84, should be 30,000 miles.  Could be somebody unplugged/cut the
wire b/c they didn't know how to shut off the bleeding light...

david

>Gregor Brandt
>
>I'd rather be rock climbing.

David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"