Nathan:

Before you despair, have you ruled out the vanagon shiver, the intermittent
syndrome that many Vanagons suffer from.  Could it be that it is merely the
time that you turn the car off to tap the fuel pump is really what is
allowing you to start back up and drive again?  Just a thought.

Brad Barcom

1987 Vanagon GL
1986 Toyota Pickup

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Dart 330
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:08 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: more fuel problems!!!!

Well my van has been running perfectly since I put a new fuel pump on it
until tonight. I started it up after being parked for a few hours to go to a
friends house and it is running normal and then all of a sudden NO power. I
thought well maybe the engine is cold and doesn't want to go up near 4k rpm,
so I upshift and keep on going and it stalls every couple minutes. I get to
the point where if I try to drive it dies. I restart, it idles and then I go
forward and it dies. A few taps on the fuel filter and I can drive a few
blocks. I repeat this process until I get home (several miles away in the
snow).

I feel very angry as I thought my fuel problems were over. There are only 3
possible solutions.

1. bad fuel pump (very unlikely)
2. ice in gas (never happened before)
3. rusty crap in fuel tank continues to clog fuel filter (really pissin me
off)

Either way I can't drive it tomorrow which screws me over, and I just spent
my tax return on new shocks and have no money for a tank replacement which I
guess I need. So are my only options to carry around a dozen fuel filters
and replace it every time it does this, or is it possible to drop my tank
and clean all the crud out of it and reinstall within a day or two?

Sorry for venting but I am a little pissed off, all suggestions welcomed.

Nathan
85 Westy
74 Bus
60 SO-23

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