Jay,

Well massive cut out will happen on my van * only * sometimes.
sure I'm kinda forsed to pull over and turn the switch and it fires
right back up driving fine again. ( so my AFM ) might be telling
something, I'll clean it and do the cool cap fix, BTW thats a nice
write up.

also i need to clean my ground wires to the block, they are all greenish.
cleaned them once before but they just got crapped up again.

thanks much

--
Joseph  Fortino
fortino1@onebox.com - email

---- "Jay L Snyder" <Jay.L.Snyder@usa.dupont.com> wrote:
>
> The AFM develops bad spots, usually right in the range where you use
> it the
> most.  When I put a new AFM on my '85,  I noticed I could smoothly
> increase
> the engine speed from idle to 3000rpm.   With the old one, it would
> sort of
> sit at idle, then jump up to 2000rpm or so.  It was impossible to hold
> the
> engine speed at 1500 rpm.  I believe this is an easy way to check out
> the
> operation of the AFM.  The capacitor fix may work for the Vanagon Syndrome
> (see archives), but it is a patch at best for a worn out AFM.  Vanagon
> Syndrome is easily verified by shutting off the engine and allowing
> the ECU
> to clear.  If your problem persists, it is not Vanagon Syndrome.
>
>                                                             Jay
>
>
>
>
> Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>@gerry.vanagon.com> on 12/20/2001
> 01:00:55 PM
>
> Please respond to Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
>
> Sent by:    Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
>
>
> To:    vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> cc:
> Subject:    AFM 85gl
>
>
> Have a question about my AFM and the trouble it seems to get
> while running, anyway I'm going to put that cap inside the AFM
> TO CLEAR THE cut out at speeds, 15v 22mf cap mod.
>
> Question when the AFM goes bad does it just go bad all they way?
> this is the part that reports to the ECU huh? kinda costly also
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
> --
> Joseph  Fortino
> fortino1@onebox.com - email
>
>
>
>
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