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Subject:Vanagon Flat Spot Woes (84, 1.9)
From:Blake Sartin
Date:Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:38:23 -0400

Continuing my saga of weeding out my horrible flat spot on acceleration, I
have replaced relays, fuel pump, all intake gaskets, refurbished the idle
air valve, vacuum can on the distributor, every vacuum hose, and there's
probably more.

I just installed the new throttle body the other day, and while the flat
spot was unaffected, I did regain the ability to adjust the idle, which was
nice.

The next thing was that the air flow meter (AFM) needed to be tested. Guess
what? The thing failed its test. Wild readings just off idle. So I opened
the lid, and looked to adjust the carbon track. It's already been adjusted
once... The new track now has a problem. Ugh.

Does anybody have a known good 1.9 AFM they'd like to sell? I am having a
hard time driving the ol' girl with this issue.

Thanks!
Blake
Maryville TN
'84 Vanagon (medium blue/white)

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