No no no, you have it all wrong.
The miss is a dead cylinder, zero compression, and reduces the load on the
there three cylinders, thus getting much better mileage.  If you fixed that,
fuel mileage would
 decrease  - :) 
Scott 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
John Bange
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:02 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: '84 value?

On Nov 27, 2007 4:43 PM, BJ Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote:

> $400 for an '84, sheeesh. Everyone knows you need to list it as an '84
> "Eurovan" to get good money. ;)
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yrlgy3
>

Good ol' ebay sellers. My favorite is the bullet list at the bottom with the
following items:

   1. MOTOR HAS A MISS
   2. 25-30 MPG

 Man, think what kind of mileage you'd get if you could solve that
misfiring!

--
John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"