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All of a sudden and only momentarily, it
 started to lose power. At first, because the wind was blowing pretty hard,
I thought
 it was my imagination (denial in a Vanagon!). But it did happen, so I
pulled over and
 stopped and put it at 2000rpm and it started to die and then recovered. I
shut down
 for a few seconds and re-started and never had any more problems the whole
trip
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Is it possible that there is something that happens in the ECU when one
drives at full throttle into a nasty head wind, and the Vanagon just cannot
push hard enough... I am thinking of sort of like an "over exertion ECU
Shutdown Program"???

Sounds strange, I know... The only reason I mention this, is that I have
read now that several folks have these seemingly "intermitent Vanagon
syndrome" type problems while fighting headwinds.

I have felt it many times both driving across the USA as well as Austria
(same '87 GL) and have none of the AFM wiring harness update tweaks (OEM
recall cable harness, or homemade capacitator soldered on). It always gives
me a sick feeling in my stomach... as the Vanagon seems to lose power and
"die" for about 2-4 seconds, and then drive fine for a while, and then do it
again.  Re-starting fixes it (so for me that means ECU).

I would be curious to hear some of the more technically saavy list members'
thoughts on my theory!

RSF

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Robert S. Fish
Salzburg, Austria
1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
1987 Golf Cabriolet
1991 Golf