Thanks for the reply.  I'm going to leave mine disconnnected for a while
and try to notice this.  I'll see if I stall out (right now, its been
close a few times and now I have an explaination for that).

Here's a new question for you though:
Is the idle stabilizer only active when the idle switch is activiated?

Thanks,
Blake

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, John Lauterbach wrote:

> 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
> >
>