Sounds like too much air is getting into the engine either through a
faulty idle stabilizer or a vaccuum leak.

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Laurence Smith
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
90 Westy (fanumbos)
87 GL
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Tom Salicos
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 8:16 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: '87 2.1 Starting Problems
>
>
> My daughters' van has an intermittant starting problem.  It
> will turn over and start, but will not idle.  She can't
> take her foot off the gas until it's warmed up for about
> fifteen minutes.  Her foot's too small to do the
> gas-and-brake thing.
>
> It won't do it for our mechanic, so he can't help.  I'm
> thinking about shotgunning a part or two to find out what
> is causing it.  Does this sound like an idle stabilizer
> problem?  I can swap with my '87 if it's deemed to be a
> likely cause.
>
> Thanks for help,
>
> Tom Salicos
> '87 Westy Syncro
>