I'm thinking vacuum leak.

Karl WOlz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Tom Hargrave
|Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:48 AM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: FW: DAYS SUMMARY - UODATED INFO FW: STRANDED in South Florida
|- NEED TECH HELP
|
|I think he already mentioned that the Vanagon idles fine but stalls when he
|tries to come off idle. That's not caused by bad gas, or fuel pump, or a
|fuel pump pressure regulator, or a bad injector. If it were any of these
|things it wouldn't start or would start & run, but run very badly.
|
|It's got to be something else.
|
|Thanks,
|Tom Hargrave
|256-656-1924
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|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
|Doug Alcock
|Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:06 AM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: FW: DAYS SUMMARY - UODATED INFO FW: STRANDED in South Florida
|-
|NEED TECH HELP
|
|That's what I was thinking -- bad gas -- worth a look. Has happened to
|me 3 times, to the point where I only buy gas at the busiest truck
|stops on an interstate. I was stuck in Alabama once on a tight
|deadline to get home --- the VW dealer mechanics tried everything they
|could think of while I begged them to check the gas. These were good
|guys who both owned type 2's but it was Friday at 5 pm. After a couple
|of hours they decided that it was indeed bad gas -- drained the tank
|-- put in some fuel conditioner and, of course, fresh gas -- and I was
|on my way.
|
|A really quick thing to try would be to dump in a whole bunch of
|fuel-line antifreeze (Heet) which will take the water out of the gas.
|Don't stop at one bottle, use 3 or 4 -- fire it up and see what
|happens. Worth a try. If there is too much water in the gas this won't
|work. But if the engine starts running a little better you know you're
|on the right track. BTDT too many times........
|
|Cheers,
|Doug
|
|On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Kenneth Lewis <kdlewis@northstate.net>
|wrote:
|> Mark,
|> Did you by chance, when you had the filter off , draw some fuel in a
|glass
|> jar and inspect it for water? Just curious.
|>
|> Ken Lewis
|> http://neksiwel.20m.com/
|>
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