Crud in the tank intermittently clogging the fuel filter?  You can cut open
the used fuel filter to see if there is a bunch of junk in there.

Jake
82 AC Westy

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Rob Infante
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 9:09 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: hesitation

Two weeks ago it had a tune up, with new plugs, wires, distributor cap and
rotor, air and fuel filters, and O2 sensor, all to make it pass NJ  state
inspections.  I have not put techron in the tank.  Here is  what's odd:  I
ran it
down to a half tank last week (put in 18.9 gallons),  then Saturday put in
15.7
gallons.  Drove it a few hours with no issues, it  ran like a top.  Then
Sunday I drove 20 miles or so, no problem, it was  only on the way back that
this
started.

I'll try the techron thing, see if that helps.  Thanks for the  input.

rob infante

In a message dated 5/3/2005 9:57:46 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
felder@KNOLOGY.NET writes:

When's  the last time you changed plugs, points, wires, cap, rotor, and
ran some  techron through the gas tank? The "low point" of my 2.1's life
was about 5  or 6 years ago, and I thought I just had an old car that
wasn't going to  get any better--but I was wrong!

Jim

On May 3, 2005, at 8:34 AM,  Rob Infante wrote:

> Hi.   Sun. night when I was driving  home I started having  problems
> with
> hesitation.  I  had just cleared a not-so-big hill, when I  could feel
> it sort  of
> stuttering.  The tach never wavered, and it wasn't  too  bad, but I
> could
> definitely feel it a bit.  It didn't do  it every  second but it also
> never went a
> minute without  doing it.  Just an annoying  stuttering feeling.  I
>  drove it last
> night and didn't notice anything, but  this morning  it feels like it
> might be
> back.  Its a little hard to  tell as  it is all back roads to work, but
> at
> lunch I'm  going to take it on the highway  and see if it happens
>  again.  I can
> think of a number of things that would  cause  this, but the fact that
> the engine
> never falters just seems  strange.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks in advance
>  rob infante
> 87 syncro westy
>