The engine should cut out ~5,200 to 5,400 rpms and you can easily reach that in 2nd gear. This is a great exercise to pound out those main bearings and the case around them. 

Dennis 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Feddish
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 7:28 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Engine cut out.

The van has been running very well the last few months after all that tinkering.  City gas mileage is still not where I’d like it but I ‘m going to check the highway mileage next week.  Anyway, I have this persistent problem.  If I accelerate to really high RPMS, like in 2nd gear, I get to a point where the engine just cuts out like a switch.  This is 100% reproducible as it does it all the time and the engine runs fine otherwise.   I don’t have a tach so I could not tell you how high the RPMs are. I do have a big clock so I could tell you what time it was, except in the winter. 

Any suggestions?  I have an ‘83.5 WC.

Thanks,
Bryan