Have you checked fuel pressure AND flow?
Is your CHT sensor good? You can check that with a meter at different
temps (ambient air vs. after a hot water bath).

Roger

On Mar 5, 2006, at 2:50 PM, jake beaulieu wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> Alright, I have an 82 air cooled Vanagon, Federal model, so no O2
> sensor to
> worry about.  When running the van will unexpectedly begin to totally
> bog
> down, total loss of power, barely able to keep it running.  If I let
> up on
> the accelerator it will die.  When restarted it will continue to do
> this for
> 1-10 minutes, then all of a sudden it will run fine again.  5 minutes
> down
> the road it will do it again.  Sometimes it only last about 30
> seconds, then
> runs excellent again.  So it is an intermittent problem, a very
> frustrating
> type of gremlin to chase.  I have spliced new terminals to all of the
> fuel
> injection grounds (including the tranny to chassis ground).  I am not
> sure
> where to look next.  If it is some sort of intermittent short in the
> wiring
> it could be anywhere!  Any ideas out there?
>
> PS. The AFM checks out according to Bentley
>
> Thanks,
> Jake
>