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Subject:Re: Idle Stabilizer Stability (2 Parts)
From:Ken Wilford
Date:Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:16:51 -0400

I was selling these units as rebuilt for about $100 a couple of years
ago.  The problem was that about half of the units were coming back as
non-rebuildable.  As you can imagine this killed off my core base pretty
quick.  I gave it up.  If you want to send me yours I could see if it is
rebuildable.

Ken Wilford
www.vangain.com
John 3:16

Tom L. Salicos wrote:

>For an '87 2.1 WBX:
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>Part 1:
>My van had started to die after starting from cold recently.  It would start right up and idle okay, but die at the first stop sign 250 feet away.  I had bought an idle stabilizer control unit on Ebay, so I put it on.  Now I notice a difference.  It does seem to work okay, but the idle seems to be right under 1000, and pulsing up and down a couple of hundred RPM, maybe twice per second.
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>I am wondering if this might be a difference in how the controllers work from different years, or if my "new" one has a different kind of problem.
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>Part 2:
>Does anybody repair and test these things?  I'd rather have mine repaired than just keep buying unknowns from used vans.
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>Thanks,
>
>Tom Salicos
>'87 Westy Syncro
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