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Subject:Re: strange bucking problem w/ '84 vanagon wbx
Date:Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:28:53 EST

In a message dated 2/17/05 12:30:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
hfinn@INGRATES.NET writes:

>
> It's the dealer solution to an oscillation condition in the ECU monitoring
> the air flow meter. It's basically a short cable with a male connector on
> one end and a female on the other that goes between the AFM and the harness
> that plugs into it. It essentially contains a capacitor that "smoothes out"
> the AFM signal to the ECU. The VW-made harness is the expensive solution.
> The cheap solution is to open your AFM and just solder a capacitor across
> the appropriate terminals.
> <http://www.geocities.com/harald_nancy/intermitt._syndrome.htm>
>
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
>

will this "harness" solution work for the 1.9L?