maybe some of y'all can shed some light on this...?

Subj:   [vanagon] Sudden death syndrome, 83.5, 1.9l
Date:   4/5/07 1:06:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:   keithwwalker@yahoo.com
To: vanagon@yahoogroups.com
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OK, so I was driving my doka the past few days and the idle was bad,
as if a plug was dirty and was missing.

After a while it would get better.

Well last night, the idle did not get better, and then I was driving
up an incline in 2nd gear and lugging the engine, and then the engine
just flat out died.

I tried cranking it over and none of the cylinders were firing (fuel
pump was OK too). I feared I may of flooded the engine, so I opened
the throttle all the way to clear out the engine and that didn't work.

So I parked the doka and when I got back 2 hours later is started
right up! No bad idle, no problems.

I believe that there is some sort of electronic problem here. Perhaps
the idle stabilizer, TPS, or distributor?

Can anyone give advice? I don't want to get stranded...

Keith Walker

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