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Subject:Re: Serious Friday question -- stalling a few minutes after cold start
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:10:51 -0500

At 08:58 AM 3/3/2011, John Lauterbach wrote:
>My '84 Vanagon wants to stall after driving for several minutes.  It
>will start okay, but not fast idle.  If you have to stop at a traffic
>light after driving for several minutes, something is driving the idle
>to zero unless you press down on the accelerator pedal to keep the idle
>up.  Once the engine is fully warmed up, idle is stable.  Also, if you

Pull the O2 and idle stab first just to be sure.  But I'll bet a
nickel it's a flaky T-II.

Yours,
d