OOps, I meant "oil breather", sorry.
Z
----- Original Message -----
From: "HotelWestfalia" <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 7:59 PM
Subject: Oil brather vacuum leak? Kenny?

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On Nov 7, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Automatic digest processor
> <LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:
>
>> Re: '87 vanagon camper hesitating/bucking and burning gas in Mexico
>