And here I was envisioning someone jerking the wheel and hitting a tree to
avoid running over roadkill.
I like your vision better. :-)
Courtney

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Guzyk" <paullist08@GUZYK.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: dead cat kills van

> I've seen this before too...I had a Syncro that would just sputter start
> then die.
>
> Ben (of Montreal) and myself played around swapping pretty much every
> ignition component then he realized even though we had spark and fuel, the
> engine could not exhale.  Engine gotta breath in order to run!
>
> After we pulled the Cat we could see it was plugged up with broken cat
> guts.   Installed a new cat, van has been fine ever since.
>
>
>
>>I made a new friend this week on the Samba. He posted about a vexing
>>problem with his son's recently acquired 87 Wolfsburg. It had just died
>>as he was driving and then would not start. He had it towed home and was
>>trying to get it going. A former VW mechanic friend came over with tools