check for tears in the intake boot.

Chris DeLong
Fine Tuning
206.427.4777
www.finetuningperformance.com
Seattle, WA USA

>From: Scott Grass <csgrass@BELLSOUTH.NET>
>Reply-To: Scott Grass <csgrass@BELLSOUTH.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: 1991 vanagon running issue need help
>Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:45:09 -0400
>
>Heres the story, I drove my 1991 Westie Syncro on a almost cross country
>trip over a couple of months. On the trip out we drove non stop (except to
>fill up check the oil and take restroom breaks), didn't notice a thing
>wrong with the vanagon it ran great. we spend a few months in west Texas,
>during this time we took the van to town for the day every week at least
>during this time I notice that it was sometimes run rough for a second or
>two and then good as gold no rhyme or reason to when and where. When we
>started back to the east I pulled off to get gas and do the on the road
>routine. After a fill up and break I will say it was ten to twenty mins. I
>started off again the van started fine a nd ran great but when I would give
>it gas and let the clutch out it would act as if it was dying not jerking
>just like some one was pulling all the power out as soon as the clutch was
>engaging. If you pushed in the clutch it would not die it would return to
>idle. Sometimes it would repeat this on the next cycle of the clutch
>sometimes not. If it did die it would always start again easily. And then
>it would fix its self and it would be fine until you stopped again and shut
>it down for a while. This bus has the stumble fix from VW . I'm just a
>little confused, I took it to the local "expert" and he replaced a temp
>sensor that fixed my cooling fan issue but the loss of power it got me. I'm
>about ready to replace the air meter as that is the only other thing that
>comes to mind. I ve checked all the obvious things wires, fuel pressure
>Please help my vanagon run strong all the time Thanks Scott

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