Blake, I have an '84 7-passenger.  When you bypass the idle stabilizer, you
can wind up with the engine stalling.  I good idle stabilizer will try to
keep the engine at about 850-900 rpm at idle.  Maybe it is because of
another problem, but about 2 minutes after I start the van in anything but
near freezing weather, the idle wants to drop off and by watching the tach
you can see the idle stabilizer bring up the rpms

John Lauterbach
Macon, GA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Blake Thornton" <thornton@MATH.UTAH.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:38 PM
Subject: Idle stabilizer

> In an effort to find my electrical gremlins, I bypassed the idle
> stabilizer.  My idle went from "searching" to smooth.  I wan't running
> poorly before (except when the gremlin took over and killed it), but with
> the idle stabilzier bypassed, it seems to be running much better.
>
> Could someone explain to me what the idle stabilizer does and what happens
> when it is bypassed.
>
> Thanks,
> Blake
> 84 Westy
> SLC UT
>