TJ,

I can't speak for the hard start up portion of your issue - I'm not saying
the temp II sensor isn't related to that and I'm not saying it is - I don't
know.

However, for overall crappy running and other frustrating, intermittent,
perplexing, aggravating, different symptom type problems I can attest that
it certainly could be your Temp II sensor. I had a lot of problems with my
'90, when I had it, with bad, rich running, loss of power - all what seemed
to be Vanagon syndrome type issues. Well, I swapped out the Temp II sensor
and it all went away - forever.

They are cheap (like $4-$5) and easy to replace. Might want to test it like
others suggested first - that's probably the right thing to do. However, if
it were me - I'd just replace it.

Good luck.

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Thanks,

Jeff
'85 GL (Gertie)
'90 Carat (Grover - the noble parts donor)
'86 (We call this one Scrap)
'78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus