Same thing happened to mine. I did replace the resistor and it restored
some, but not all, of the functionality.
I have pics of the crispy critter, and a photo showing the differences
between the early "B" and "D" units as well.
I'll post them if anyone is interested.

Obviously this was a known problem as they changed the design of the
unit in later years.

Todd
'88 Westy

Sylvie et Germain wrote:

>This is exactly the samething as me. The power relay and the 56ohms resistor
>shows some overheating . It sounds it is a common problem for the Vanagon.
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>BTW, I wonder if VW had a recall on this device. How de we know if the van
>had all the VW recalls fixed on it? I saw in the archive that VW had many
>recalls on the Vanagon 1987.
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>Any comments?
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>To: "Sylvie et Germain" <reglys@SYMPATICO.CA>; <RAlanen@AOL.COM>; "Vanagon
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>Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 6:25 AM
>Subject: Re: Idle Stabilization Valve
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>>If you just want a nice big picture of the thing, opened up...
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