jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO> writes:
>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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Thanks a zillion but I'm not sure what the afm boot is....could you
clarify that for me...then when I get home today I'll check my haynes
manual.

John