Same thing happened to me. It was the temp II sensor. In my case a wiggle of
the connection fixed it. You may need to replace yours if it is.

William

----- Original Message -----
From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: idle hunting 1.9l 85'

> In a message dated 5/18/02 8:20:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> smorewhisky@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
>
> >
> > had something happen today that is a mystery to
> > me...had just started the engine(warm, but sat an
> > hour) and had the idle hunting up to 1500 rpm and down
> > to 900 for about 30 seconds, i reved the engine and it
> > stoped...never had that happen before, was just
> > wondering what i might check or what might be about to
> > die on me...thanks as usual
> >
> >
>
> i just had the same problem, i swapped the AFM from another 1.9L van i had
> and it fixed the problem
> chris