All concerned should remember that the first symptom of my #1 intake
valve beginning to stick in the valve guide was a flat spot in
acceleration.  Maybe Santa will bring a compression tester and a
leak-down tester.

John

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 16:27 -0800, Old Volks Home wrote:
> Ditto for my 84 Westy Digijet as well many years ago.
>
> Jim Thompson
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> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Melissa Mourkas <westywoman@mac.com> wrote:
> > I was gonna say....AFM! Worked for me.
> >
> > Melissa Mourkas
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> > On Dec 14, 2011, at 02:57 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> >> I've seen a number of posts over time about flat spots in acceleration
> >> with
> >> a stock WBX so I'm posting this in the hope it will help someone. I've
> >> lived with a flat spot/no acceleration from a stop, especially if even a
> >> little bit uphill (needs more than minimal power to get moving) for a
> >> couple of years now. Fine when cold but after a few minutes of running and
> >> warm you step on the gas from a stop and it holds a committee meeting
> >> before finally picking up when the engine gets to about 2,000 rpm. BTW,
> >> this is with an automatic. If this were a stick I'd expect to kill the
> >> engine. Two of the best Vanagon mechanics I know of have both been stumped
> >> by this one after working on the rig and trying to figure it out. Some
> >> time back someone on one of the lists responded to a post about this
> >> problem and said that they had the same problem and it went away when they
> >> put in a new AFM. Well, I've been sitting on a virtually new (less than
> >> 1,000 miles on it) AFM for a couple of years, picked it up when Vanagon
> >> Syndrome cropped up but hadn't put the new AFM in because the 'pigtail'
> >> fixed the Syndrome and was running fine except for the problem described
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