Kenny,
It is not clear to me.  You say, you had a vacuum leak "at the oil breather
tower" and you fixed it by "wrapping a tape around the top".
Question; was the oil breather tower faulty in some way?  what did you have
to tape "around the top"?  What and where was the fault?
Zoltan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Weikel" <kweikel@DEJAZZD.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: '87 vanagon camper hesitating/bucking and burning gas in Mexico

My '89 was doing that for a while. Started off slowly enough with a slight
hesitation when I accelerated from a stop. Also had bad gas mileage and
towards the end it would bog down while driving with black smoke billowing
out the exhaust. Turned out to be a vacuum leak at the oil breather tower.
Unplugging the O2 sensor got me by so I could drive it without too much of a
problem but I did get around to fixing it. I diagnosed mine by wrapping tape
around the top as tightly as I could and low and behold everything improved.
Hope this helps.

Kenny

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