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Subject:Re: 1987 running issues.
From:T Collins
Date:Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:52:09 -0500

Ah!!!

Well easy fix! :)

Tony

On Saturday, November 16, 2013, Craig Cowan wrote:

> It turns out it was out of
> Gas!
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> -craig
>
> On Nov 16, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > True vanagon syndrome due to vibration in the AFM happens after an hour
> or two at relatively steady highway speed.  Of course there are now various
> other problems to which people have applied that label.
> >
> > If you are confident that your fuel flow and pressure are OK, temp2 does
> sound like the usual suspect.
> >
> > Larry A.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Craig Cowan <phishman068@gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> So my 1987 has just started doing something new I've never dealt with.
> >> It starts and runs but about 2 minutes into a drive it feels like its
> running out of gas. Power drops, throttle becomes unresponsive, etc. then
> it dies.
> >>
> >> If I go to fire it back up it will crank and will even catch and want
> to run but dies within a second or two. Every try, same result.
> >> If I let it cool down for a bit, say 15 minutes or so (as I type this)
> it will start and run fine until I get home.
> >> It does it just as the thermostat opens.
> >>
> >> I have tried unplugging the oxygen sensor and no difference.
> >> Is this perhaps the fabled vanagon syndrome or a failed temp2?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> -craig
> >
>

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