Thanks Jerry, that worked well!
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Rob
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At  11/26/2007 05:31 PM, azsun99 wrote:
>A quicker way to search the archives, is with Google.
>"subject" site:vanagon.com
>or leave off the quotation marks for a broader search.
>
>Good luck and enjoy your '87.
>
>Jerry
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "James Reed-Jones" <jjones04@UOGUELPH.CA>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:27 PM
>Subject: noob already in trouble
>
>
>Hey all,
>
>So I have been meaning to introduce myself (instead of just lurking)
>and since I have had my first official van disaster I thought I would
>kill two birds with one stone.
>
>3 months ago my wife and I bought an 87 westy and have been in love
>with it ever since. I just recently found out about this list and
>subscribed - let me tell you this place has been so useful already! (I
>cant believe the oil filler extends!)
>
>All that being said - I had my first disaster with the van today. I
>was out picking my wife up and I started loosing power and couldn't
>keep the RPMs up above 1200. It was like I was trying to start in the
>highest gear. The weird thing though is that it would do it even when
>I put it in neutral. I kept having to pull over and restart the
>engine. This would solve the problem for anywhere between a few blocks
>to not at all. The one thing that I did do to limp it home was that
>every time I lost power I would stomp the pedal which seemed to give
>me back a burst of power and doing that I was able to rocket myself
>along with the occasional boosts of speed.
>
>Other info - 1987 vanagon westy
>- Automatic tranny
>- It first started while the engine was warming up but continued after
>it had gotten up to the regular running temp
>- I live in Ontario Canada and today it was blizzarding a nice wet
>slushy snowfall (as an aside I hope Santa brings me winter tires)
>- A similar kind of thing happened once before on a cold damp morning
>but it just happened once then went away.
>
>Any ideas I could check out prior to taking it to a mechanic would be
>great - or if this has been discussed in the list before a keyword to
>do a search for would be great!
>
>Thanks everyone,
>
>James
>
>
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