Cracking the throttle, at least enough to get the engine to feed fuel,
is what I did this morning to see if I could get enough heat out of the
engine to heat the heater. It was still pretty cool. The temp gauge
hovered around halfway between the left edge of the scale and the
straight up position.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

On 12/27/2007 3:39 PM Dennis Haynes wrote:

> What wonderful idea as compared to adding switches and other good stuff.
> Yep, just crack the throttle. I also do this on my Diesel motor home as it
> will also over cool going down long grades. And there is no actual
> throttle there. Only fuel is regulated so going down those hills the full
> engines capacity of air with no combustion cools it down really quick.
>  There is the advantage though that this quickly gets rid of that extra
> heat generated going up the hill.
>
> Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Markus Mumper
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 5:52 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Overcooling Hypothesis--Long
>
> Hello group........
>
> I don't know if it is related but the only two times I've experienced
> Vanagon Syndrome has been after coasting down to the bottom of long long
> grades. I would hit the throttle at the bottom and nothing would happen -
> just sputtering. I'd pull over, stop the engine, restart and all would be
> OK.
>
> FWIW - this is the only problem I've ever had with this van after four
> years
> and twenty thousand or so miles.
>
> My "cure" has been to modulate the throttle as I coast down any long hill
> in
> my automatic '87 Westy.
>
> I haven't experienced the syndrome since.
>
> Markus in Pismo Beach where it's getting into the thirties at night!