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Subject:Re: Rev limiter????
From:Sudhir Desai
Date:Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:40:55 -0500

5500rpm rev-limit if i recall correctly

On 12/11/06, Airic <airic@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
> I was driving my 1983.5 vanagon 1.9L after changing the antifreeze, it is starting to look like winter down here.  I was getting it in second gear, and it semed like the ignition cut out, similar to other vehicles I have driven when the rev limiter is hit.
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> I looked at the rotor, and it did not seem like the aircooled rev limit type I rarely see on anything anymore.
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> It only did it at high RPM and I never tried to rev up the other gears, so do these vehicles have a built in rev limiter, or do I need to start troubleshooting a high speed miss?
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> Thanks in advance
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