Hi Pat, if you are talking the Vancouver that is in the US near PDX..You
might try A&P Specialties on 82nd Ave in northeast Portland.  Allan is a
super German car guy, knows his stuff and really great to have work on your
cars.  He used to trouble-shoot my Porsche 928...and if he can work on
those...a CIS injected Jetta motor is baby stuff...
  I have a phone number...pretty old..503 254 7310.  Google him and give him
a call.
  Don Hanson

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> Hi Pat,
> if it's a US model for 87 jetta, it will have electronic ignition for sure.
>
> you have lots of shiny braided fuel hoses running all over the place ( CIS
> fuel injection ) right ?
>
> Scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat Sloan" <pmsloan@SHAW.CA>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>  Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Engine Interrupted. Any Ideas, Please?
>
>
> My engine is a 1.8 87 US Jetta model also.
>> Not sure about electronics vs distributer, but will check. Even I can
>> recognize a distributor if its there.
>> I will keep your coil/points/distributer ideas in mind when I see the new
>> mechanic.
>> Thnx, Pat
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans [mailto:scottdaniel@turbovans.com]
>> Sent: March 14, 2010 4:26 PM
>> To: Pat Sloan; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Engine Interrupted. Any Ideas, Please?
>>
>> Is it CIS type fuel injection ?
>> I believe in that year it is.
>> My 87 jetta  ( US model ) 1.8 16 valve engine has CIS-E fuel injection.
>>
>> if your problem it is fuel injection related ....those are trickier to fix
>> sometimes.
>> I thnk a lot of techs avoid that system.
>> I havn't got mine running  in my vanagon yet, and  I may run it on
>> Digifant
>> instead of CIS.
>>
>> Check everywhere for air leaks ...
>> cracked air intake boot , vacuum hoses etc.
>>
>> if it has points ignition instead of pure electronic ...
>> look into the points and the distrubutor itself carefully.
>> I had one...customer's van .
>> and it would just 'shut off' ...
>> that was a 1.8 8 vavle engine with CIS and a points distributor.
>> Watching it idle it would just 'shut off' , like someone turned off the
>> key.
>>
>> It occured to me that it could be a bad coil - and it was.
>> New coil fixed that one.
>> it also had slightly pitted points, and a bit much side shaft play in the
>> distributor shaft.
>>
>> I would retro fit electrnoic igntion to any points distributor car
>> always...
>> much stronger and better igntion, It can just 'wake up' a car that has
>> points for igntion -converting to electronic igntion.
>>
>> Igntion switches of vanagons are always suspect- an underbuilt part that
>> gets many years service on it, and can cause weird problems.
>>
>> Scott
>> www.turbovans.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Pat Sloan" <pmsloan@SHAW.CA>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 5:14 PM
>> Subject: Engine Interrupted. Any Ideas, Please?
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The Otter is having digestive problems. We're talking 1982 Westy -
>>> originally diesel but now converted to 1987 1.8 L Jetta gas engine.
>>> Watercooled.
>>>
>>> As I'm driving it suddenly loses power and then recovers again and again.
>>> Sometimes it just loses power and doesn't recover until I stop and then
>>> start it again.
>>>
>>> Fuel lines, fuel pump and battery have been replaced. All seems good, but
>>> the problem persists.
>>>
>>> Now it turns out that my great vanagon repair guy (Ed @ the Bug Shop in
>>> Delta, BC) doesn't work on Jetta engines, so I will have to move on to
>>> someone else. Does anyone on the list have any ideas re:
>>>
>>> 1.      good and reasonable Jetta mechanics in the Vancouver area?
>>> 2.      what could be causing this? (BCAA guy suggested alternator but
>>> what
>>> do I know?)
>>>
>>> Thanks everyone. It's such a great resource to be able to call on so much
>>> experience in times of trouble.
>>>
>>> Hopefully, Pat
>>>
>>> (whowantstogetcampingsoon!)
>>>
>>