Tracy,

If you're anywhere near Sacramento, you could stop on by my place.  I have
every possible part you can think of to test your van.  And quite a bit of
painful past experiences.

Cheers,

Jeff
www.vanagonparts.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Tracy Bonin
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:08 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: 85 running soooo crappy please help

Good evening everyone,

Well in hopes of keeping this post relativly short I will put everything in
lists ....

problems:
1 running sooo very rich
-CO I think at 12, ...HC's at like 700 or something
from running rich.. thinning out my oil to the point where you pull out the
dipstick and can smell the fuel on it ( I know that this is extremly bad and
have spent enough money on oil changes that would equal like 6 months of oil
changes)
2 Lack of power , especfially on uphill
3 Hesitating, and bucking

things I've checked and or replaced if needed:
1 Coolant temp 2 sensor
2 O2 sensor
3 fuel pressure regulator
4 all lines and hoses
5 Grounds
6 Air Flow Meter

Things that can be wrong with it, but don't know how to check and or am
unaware of what other symptoms happen when they go bad
1 Cat convertor
2 fuel injectiors
3 fuel pump and or fuel pump relay
4 ECU

Any ideas.....? :-)
please help...
Tracy,
85' GL "Ripple"
65' Splitty