What year is your Vanagon? Or, what engine? If I recall, my friends
1.9 WBX Digijet system would prime the pump more than once.

Along with Stuarts comments on the gas tank, consider too that if your
van does not have the pre pump filter, the screen inside the fuel pump
can get clogged with debris.

Neil.

On 8/17/17, Michael A. Radtke <wa7zpu@5by9.net> wrote:

> Thank you everyone for the advice.
>
> The problem is fixed.  It was the fuel filter.
>
> I was confused why Niel suspected the ignition switch, but then Stuart
> explained.  However, I would expect that the double prime would not be
> so consistent with an intermittent switch.  Every time I turned on the
> switch and removed my fingers from the key it was buzz-wait-buzz.  Now
> that the van is running again, I have confirmed that the pump still runs
> twice.  I asked another driver of the van and he too says, no it used
> to run only once.  So perhaps an ignition switch failure is on the way.

>

--
Neil n

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