Similar thing happened to me a week ago when I was cleaning the engine
bay. I had unplugged the connector going to the air cleaner unit (air
flow meter), and the van would start up without a problem, and even
allow me to start to drive. But without fail, 20 seconds later it
would die when I gave it gas.

This is different from when I have left the oxygen sensor unplugged,
which allowed me to get a couple miles down the road before it
sputtered out.

-Jarrett

On Sep 1, 2008, at 7:40 PM, The Westy man wrote:

> I was trying to find out why the engine stops after about twenty
> seconds...
> Zoltan