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Subject:Re: Stuttering at 3000 rpm
From:Charles McGehee
Date:Thu, 1 May 2003 08:38:41 -0700

I got my present one last fall at a junk yard for $45, and it worked
alright.  I wish there were someway to know if that's what it is without
getting another one.  Maybe I'm too cheap.

Charles
'85 Westy

At 08:20 AM 5/1/2003 -0700, mark drillock wrote:
>I see 85 Vanagons at the junkyard all the time. ECUs are $35 there. I am
>going there in 10 minutes and they had a 85 there a couple weeks ago.
>
>Mark
>
>Charles McGehee wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Aaron, that's really interesting.  Mine's the same way.  It does it
> > in neutral, too.  I ran it up for my mechanic and he fiddled around,
> > disconnected a variety of things to see what would affect it, but nothing
> > did.  I'm hoping it's not the ECM, but there's no way to test it without
> > putting in another, but I'm not inclined to want to go to that expense
> > without knowing more specifically.  Bentley gives a number of VOM tests on
> > the ECM connector and everything checks out, not that that necessarily
> > means nothing is wrong.
> >
> > So what did you do?  It sounds like you've just kept on driving.  I don't
> > look forward to that, especially for long distances.
> >
> > Charles
> > '85 Westy
> >
> >