Earl,

    Can I assume you changed the fuel filter when you changed the pump?

Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earl Eutsler" <eceutsler@OSPREY.SMCM.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 11:20 AM
Subject: Sputtering '81

this is a problem that is proving quite difficult to remedy.  I have an 81
Vanagon, 2.0 liter engine, and recently I stopped driving it, in fact have
been forced to leave it in NYC - 300 miles from my home- as a result of this
mechanical distress.  What happens to the rig is that once you been running
it for about twenty to twenty - five minutes that engine seems to sputter,
and not fire consistently anymore.  It will fire and then miss an ignition
point.  So I will be jerking along down the road, and wondering what to do
to fix it.  Initially I thought that it must be a bum fuel pump.  So I
changed it over...now I have two working fuel pumps.  Next I thought I would
swap out the plugs and wires...so I have done that.  I checked the points,
and they are fine, at least I think that they are fine, and I even changed
the coil.  All to no avail.  So I throw myself upon the mercy of the list,
and beg for some suggestions.  What would cause this to happen?  I have not
been able to figure it out for tha life of me.  Thanks in advance.

Earl
'81 Vanagon