Mike,
One consideration......
Unless the rotor and the distributor cap are Bosch (and, definitely, not Wells,
from your FLAPS) you may experience missing, as I did, and either a burned rotor
and/or a burned cap. Check the conditions of the rotor and the cap.

Tom Hanlon
Palm Springs, CA
84 Westfalia

mike miller wrote:

> Dear wise listees [you can tell I want something]
>
> Thank you for the responses to the transmission problem.  Turned out to be a
> blown pilot bearing, apparently it hadn't been changed when the last clutch
> job or two were done.  Darn
>
> Missing.
>
> The van started missing under load on a trip to Southern California [from
> northern Cal.].  After the clutch job drove it once and it was fine.  Then
> as soon as I started back to Nor Cal it started missing again.  this time
> felt like it was running on 3 cylinders.  Then it would clear and  run fine,
> then back to missing.
>
> Was smogged just prior to trip and passed OK, not great though.
>
> Had new Bosch single platinum's in it, new rotor and cap.  Changed the
> platinum's to copper Bosch in Southern Cal.  Checked rotor and cap, just
> generic FLAPS stuff but looked OK.  Ran the van and sprayed brake clearer at
> every air bearing surface I could find, no change in engine note.
>
> Got 20 mpg going south and from 15 to 18 coming north [against a very stiff
> wind].
>
> Any ideas what to look at from you oh wise list gurus?
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
>
> Oh, forgot that I put two new wheels on it that I got from BenT.  Do you
> suppose he did me in?