My thought too ..
you'd really have to wind the pee out of it to activate the rpm cut out
in any gear.
I have seen them be very happy to rev - a 1.9 wbxr with manual trans ,
but you're not that brutal on it are you ?

On 4/21/2012 5:42 AM, Bryan Feddish wrote:
> I don’t think I'm reving that high. I know I don’t have a tach but it
> really
> feels like it's cutting out sooner than it should.
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Haynes
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 8:30 AM
> To: 'Bryan Feddish' ; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: RE: Engine cut out.
>
> 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
>