Couple times I've crested. Hill in third and  nodded off on upshifting.  Pretty easy to hit governor range if you have craniorectalitis.  

Karl Wolz
Sent from my electronic umbilicus

On Apr 21, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:

> 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
>>