Hi Gregor,

It did'nt  take but a few reply posts for you to
realize comments about your wife unfortunately
hijack your thread into a off-topic direction.

I'll try to give you the technical
troubleshooting info you came here for.

This symptom usually is assumed to be a fuel
delivery issue.

However, it sounds a lot like an AFM(air flow
metre) problem or the Hall system (control or
sender).

Dying and restarting immediately sound just like
the AFM syndrome symptom.

Try switching to a different AFM. If that solves
it, you can have a capacitor intalled which will
help prevent this condition form occuring again.

There is also a factory harness that patches to
the AFM that has a capacitor.

Your Vanagon Digifant system has a sender in the
distributor that can go bad, and the wires
leading to it.

Before looking at these possible problems, a good
inspection of the wiring and the battery and
engine grounds.

Robert

1982 Westfalia

--- Gregor Brandt <gbrandt@MARIONETTE.CA> wrote:

> '86 Westy
>
> Well, after pulling the van apart and putting
> it back together again,
> electircally, it was running smoothly.  So I
> risked the trip from
> Winnipeg to Calgary (1400km).  First 100 km
> went fine, then the
> engine started die-ing again.  Tach going to
> zero, then coming right
> back up (read previous posts).  Turned around
> and got 40 km before it
> was happening all the time.  Van would start,
> then die immediately.
> My wife was not a happy woman.
>
> So, its towed and in the shop, whatever the
> problem is, I can't find
> it or fix it.   We'll see what the shop says.
>
> Gregor
>

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