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Subject:Re: Help Losing Idle!(still)
From:mike boland
Date:Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:40:35 -0600

heres the link

http://www.members.shaw.ca/bilbo/WBafm.html

or

you can go to VW order part number #  025-906-302

as shown on page 52  under this link

http://www.loam.org/vw/      click on Vanagon / drivability problems pages 52

Mike

At 12:57 PM 2/18/2003 -0600, John Rodgers wrote:
>Matt Sutton wrote:
>  He ........felt it was AFM oriented.
>
>Matt,
>
>
>There is the big clue.
>
>You may very well have a problem somehow related to the infamous
>"bucking Syndrome", that has to do with the AFM. I'm not saying that it
>IS the problem, but may be related. You want to elimnate all the
>variables in tracking down this trouble so I would suggest you do the
>Capacitor install that fixes the bucking syndrome. By doing the
>capacitor fix, you eliminate one more possibility, and you might very
>well hit on the fix. I have not done this fix myself, as I have not had
>the problem, but it is so inexpensive it makes sense to me to do it. It
>will cost you less than $5 for the parts from Radio Shack plus a little
>of your own time. I'm sorry I can't refer you directly to the website
>but one of the list members has the information and how-to posted on
>their webpage.
>
>"Ask and Ye shall receive"! I have faith in the membership.
>
>Good luck,
>
>John Rodgers
>88 GL driver