What a great resource everyone is.  I went home last night after posting
the message below and pulled off my cataletic converter and guess what!
It had broken aparte and was plugging up the muffler.  May of you guys hit
it right on the head.  Thanks for all of your help.  This is definate good
news for my Friday.  :)  Have a great weekend.

Thanks again,
-Blake
http:/members.accessbee.com/heinlein

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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:00:25 -0400, Blake Heinlein
<blakeheinlein@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>
>I've been working on a mysterious power loss for the last week or so.  I
>have an '84 Westy Automatic 1.9L Digijet Injection.
>
>Here are they symptoms:
>- Idles fine
>- Accelerates at about 1/2 of normal rate
>- Makes a deep muffled roar when accelerating with load.  This is a new
>noise that I can't explain.  Sounds like I paid a lot of money for a new
>muffler.
>- Can't imitate noise while in Park.  If I rev the engine in park it
>doesn't make the noise.
>
>
>Diagnostics I have performed:
>- Compression test on all cylinders (good)
>- Removed sparkplugs and checked for spark (good)
>- Removed fuel injectors and checked for spray (good)
>- Checked fuel flow rate on fuel injectors (good)
>- Checked fuel pressure at inlet T (good)
>- Spark plug wire resistance (good)
>- New spark plugs
>
>Well, those are the clues, now I'm hoping that someone will have clues,
>suggestions, or other areas to check so I can diagnose this.  Thanks in
>advance to everyone.
>
>-Blake Heinlein
>http:/members.accessbee.com/heinlein