On 10/8/04 6:22 PM, "Reinhard Vehring" <rvehring@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm new to the list, but not new to vanagons. Now I
> have a California aircooled 83 Westy (nice, no rust).
> Runs well but has a start problem at high altitude.
> Noticable at 7500 ft. At 8500 ft it's pretty difficult
> to get it going again, tried all kinds of things last
> time I went to the Sierra, no gas , medium gas, pump a
> bit, full gas... Finally started when I was about
> ready to give up and hike back to civilization.
> Does anyone have advice on starting tricks at high
> altitude or on what may be wrong with it?
> Thanks in advance
> Reinhard
> 
> 
The two things that usually gave my aircooled 82 starting problems at
altitude were timing and a leaking afm boot or the tubes that went into it
werent sealing into the boot correctly.

On the boot remove it carefully and look for cracks on the underside of it
in the ribs.  

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