Drive it a bit until it act up. Then get out and take off or loosen you
gas cap. Drive it some more. Note the difference. It the performance
improves, you have a vent/vacumm/fuel return line problem. most likely.
At least it is a place to start.

I had a jeep wagoneer once that did this. Acted starved of fuel. I also
noted the gas gage seemed to indicate more fuel in the tank, not less. I
popped off the gas cap - with great difficulty and I thought it was just
stuck - and there was a great whooshing sound as air rushed in. I had a
plugged vent line and as the fuel was pumped out the tank was
collapsing. The more it resisted collapsing the harder the fuel pump
strained until it simply couldn't pump more fuel. Then the engine starved.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
debbie walters wrote:

>My stalling while idleing problem has become such a regular event, that's it's become dangerous and I decided to take Gypsy to a mechanic (he does work on vanagons and other VW's, but I've never used him before).  My power loss problem also has come back.
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>This mechanic sent me home without even looking at the van (knowing that I have recently replaced fuel filter, air filter, plugs,wires,rotor, dist. cap, Hall sender, coil,O2 sensor and soldered a capacitor in the air flow meter) and told me to get a new gas tank - that there's something wrong with the baffles, and the engine is starving for fuel.  Does this make sense to anyone?  I haven't seen it mentioned in any of the posts regarding the stalling syndrom - although Mark's posts in the archives come the closest regarding water in the fuel.
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>Thanks,
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>deb
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