Peter,  I would check my fuel filter before I jumped
on a new engine. Sounds like a cloged filter to me...
Phil
when i say "missing" I mean that I
> will be driving my '87 VW vanagon Syncro along, at
> any
> speed, everything is going smoothly, and then there
> is
> an instantaneous loss of power, just for about a
> quarter of a second. The whole van "shutters" for an
> instant, then its back to driving smoothly, except
> that this effect may happen repeatedly.  And I think
> if I put in the clutch and look at the guage, that
> the
> rpm's drop way down almost to nothing when it
> "misses".  It may be at that point that the only
> thing
> that keeps the van going is its momentum, which
> essentially "roll starts" the engine back on again??
> (not, when the cluch is in tho, I mean when its
> out).
>      I took the van to a vw repair shop here and he
> flatly said that i needed new heads, and that would
> be
> $1800.  (Watch out for this guy ! ! ! Phil)

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