My vote is a bad Hall Sender.  See if you can swap distributors with
someone.  That cured my 85GL from doing this.

DB

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Chad G
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:05 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Help!! Van Dies.....

Hi All,
If it isn't one thing going wrong its another.........this van keeps me
busy!!! Just recently my 85GL started to die.  I could be driving along
and it would buck and just shut down.  It occurs more when sitting at
red lights or idling. But so far it started right back up and on I went.
Here is what I did to "try" to fix it.  I though it may be my fuel pump
slowly dying.....so I swaped it out with a know good one.  No
improvement.  I checked to see if the ground was screwed.....seemed
fine.  I looked at the wire that connects into the harness for any
visible damage.....none that I can see........

any ideas, I'm going to replace the plugs today just in case????????

let me know of other things to check,

thanks,
Chad 85GL's