On 5/7/05 4:59 PM, "Daniel Sherwood" <daniel_sherwood@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> I'm trying to drive my 1984 liquid cooled vanagon
> westy with an automatic transmission from Berkeley
> (sea level) to the East Coast.  I started getting
> problems as I got to higher altitudes, the van idles
> very rough and often stalls when I put it in park or
> reverse.
>
> Also it is very hard to start when cold.  It would
> often start once in the morning but if I let it stall
> before the engine was very warm I could not get it to
> start again.  It smells like gas when I try to start
> it, I would almost think it was flooded except that it
> is fuel injection.  It seems to get worse the higher
> in altitude I go.  After a week of stalling and
> driving finally on Thusday near Mesa Verde (7500 feet)
> I could not get it started at all.  I got it towed to
> Durango and it still does not start here even though I
> checked all the obvious things like spark, fuel,
> battery and compression.  All the VW shops are closed
> until monday.
>
> Has anyone encountered a problem like this?
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
>
>
Timing and vacuum lines.  They were the cause of my high altitude problems.
Jimt