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Subject:Re: Bucking and Snorting on Fwy
From:mike miller
Date:Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:05:39 -0800

clogged/clogging fuel filter?

> From: Bob Stevens <mtbikerbob@MSN.COM>
> Reply-To: Bob Stevens <mtbikerbob@MSN.COM>
> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:43:48 -0700
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Bucking and Snorting on Fwy
>
> Know I've seen this problem visited on here but don't have firm memory of
> the solution...or actually what the problem is...help please:
> On my way to work today, about 10 minutes after starting my precious beast,
> I was accelerating onto the freeway and had very little accelleration at
> first, then when holding the accelerator down, it began to slow gradually.
> (On my way to the freeway on surface streets, no problem.) I pulled to the
> right side of the roadway and shifted down into "2" (automatic) and same
> results. When I would pump the pedal quickly it would accelerate slightly
> while sputtering and bucking. When I held the pedal still it would only
> slowly decellerate. and finally smoothed out and I could proceed as normal.
> Question: is this the idle/air mixture device behind the right rear
> tailight?
> Any thoughts would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Bob Stevens
> '91 Westy
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