I had an AFM fall off my '85 on the way home from the opening showing of
"LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE" with some friends. That made for a great story....

It did work, it just ran rough and was very slow to respond to throttle so
almost impossible to start on a hill. I ended up pulling over, and fixing it
with a quarter (i didn't have a screwdriver to tighten the hoseclamp, only a
quarter).

-Craig
'85GL turned WESTY

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> Actually, you can drive around half decently.
> It's not hard to forget that last step of plugging the connector onto the
> AFM of course, which is how I found out.
> They run quite well, though unevenly, especially with a lot of pedal
> applied.
> I doubt that it hurts anything. The ECU is just temporarily confused about
> how long to hold open the injectors. I imagine it overcorrects a bit.
> Also...........WOT is a mode that bypasses some inputs I believe.  It'll
> run
> that way fairly well.
> Scott
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Milo" <dellaone@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Engine runs with no AFM?
>
>
>  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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