The solar eclipse requires a sacrifice to the vanagon gods. 
Did you perform such sacrifice?

Perhaps your distributor is 180* off. You said you pulled it out?
Are your plug wires in the proper places?

-craig

> On Oct 23, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Ryan Perry <rjdperry@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Good question.  Yes.  All hoses reconnected.  Getting worse for some
> reason,  won't even idle or start now.  Ran yesterday now no go...
> Frustrating!
>> On Oct 23, 2014 4:11 PM, "Dominic Provini Jr." <dprovinijr@ha-pa.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Did you reinstall the small dia. hose back onto the plenum and the small
>> hose on the distrib. ?
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>> Of Ryan Perry
>> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 4:01 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: RnR - Air and Vacuum/Coolant - Van Runs Terrible
>> 
>> So, some of you have helped me as I redid my Throttle Body, Air Plenum and
>> Intake Runners. I buttoned everything up being very careful as possible to
>> check all connections. Got everything buttoned up to be able to run and
>> refill coolant and now the Van is running terrible. 84 1.9 with old style
>> vacuum system.
>> 
>> It is backfiring off throttle, if I can even get it off of throttle. No
>> Power when I do and get it up in the RPMs. It almost sounds like it is
>> missing on a cylinder when I get it up in RPMs. It also seems to come in
>> waves...so it will idle decent (though still chugging), then after a bit
>> will idle down to very rough and die. For the most part the worst of it
>> seems to be in the low RPM range. This is all while up to temp.
>> 
>> Few questions...I can still hear air coming through the Plenum. Is that
>> normal? Do you guys hear air in your plenum?
>> 
>> How tight should the connection from the Throttle Body to the Plenum be? I
>> am wrenched down pretty good but seems set and solid....not sure but want
>> to double check.
>> 
>> I did the propane leak check and didn't get any response from idle.
>> 
>> One thing I was thinking is that perhaps when I pulled the distributor cap
>> to check the vacuum workings in there I also oiled below the button.
>> Perhaps in doing that and coupling it with the RnR on the intake side that
>> the timing is now off?
>> 
>> Either way, sorely disappointed...worked for the past 2 weeks hoping for a
>> great running van and can't even make it out of the driveway!
>> 
>> appreciate the collective wisdom!
>> 
>> Ryan Perry
>> Asheville, NC
>> Artie McFartie '84 1.9
>>