I had the same problem; but only when warmed up. I changed the broken J-pipe
and O2 sensor - runs like a champ again..

Ken Madsen
Toronto, Ontario
87GL

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hawk [mailto:jhawk@HAWKCOMPUTING.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:38 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: 84 Vanagon stops running intermitantly.

My 84 has completely sporadic problem.  It shuts off going down the road.
It usually kicks back in before I have to pull over.  It happens cold or
hot.
I have the idle stabilizer bypassed.  If I connect the idle stabilizer the
84 will
almost always stop and not want to start again.  I can always get it started

again it just takes about 15 minutes of waiting in the worst case.
I have cleaned up the grounds I could find.  I saw a post to change the temp
II
sensor.  I have one on order now.  I changed the plastic part of the
ignition switch.
I checked the adjustment of the throttle switches.  I swapped out the ECU
with a
known good ECU.  Thanks to VanAgain, Bus Depot and Rocky Mountain.  I have
the bentley CD and finally figured out to print the pages "as they appear"
in the
printer options.  Any idea's?

John
84 Vanagon
84 GL Vanagon
68 westy