On 3/14/05 6:55, "John Wallace" <jwallace@MSAD43.ORG> wrote:

> My 1988 Vanagon Wolfsburg w/4 speed started acting up yesterday after it
> warmed up.
> 
> It lost a lot of power...I'd step on the gas pedal and she'd barely
> go...it seemed better if I didn't press hard. Wasn't the clutch.
> 
> Seemed to be a bit of black smoke in the exhaust.
> 
> I took it back home and put it in the garage and had to take my wifes
> Volvo for the Sunday drive...how boring....but a safe vehicle.
> 
> Then last night, I decided to try it again. I went out and started it and
> it ran fine...until it warmed up and went off the high warm-up idle. Same
> loss of power situation and it was idling slow and rough.
> 
> Took it back home to the garage, got out to open the garage door and
> bingo, the idle smoothed out, and I took it back out on the road and it
> went fine!!!!
> 
> Got up this morn and she started fine and went well even after it warmed
> up.
> 
> I checked the archives but I'm still not sure what it is...
> 
> Any advice would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> John Wallace
> Rumford, Maine
> 88 Vanagon Wolfsburg 4 speed
> 123,000 miles
> 
> 

Two places I would look is any larger hard tubing fits into the afm boot and
the afm boot itself.

Used to see this problem a lot on older jetta.

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