Yes indeed,

It will run, and you can even move the van around for short distances, but I
wouldn't recommend it.

Dave Milo

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Edward Maglott <
emaglott@buncombe.main.nc.us> wrote:

> I was working on the van yesterday and had the AFM disconnected from
> everything to look for a water leak in the area of the coolant
> distributor.  It's a strange leak that stops when the engine warms
> up.  So I decided to start the engine and take a look under
> there.  Turned the key and got a horrible noise since the air cleaner
> housing was sitting on the alternator fan.  D'oh!  OK, moved that and
> started the engine and it ran.  So no air going into the engine was
> going through the AFM and the AFM was not connected electrically
> either.  Hmmm, I thought.  Must be the idle circuit keeping it
> running.  I opened the throttle and expected it to die, but no, it
> revved up just like normal.  Engine was cold, so was in open loop
> mode, but still.  Maybe since it had no load on it the engine was
> able to spin up?   Seems like it would have gone terribly lean.  Any
> ideas on this curiosity? This is a 2.1 digifant.
>
> Edward
>
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