>
>I'm the one that complained about poor idle on my '85 van. It's always
>fun to go down various paths to attempt a fix:) I thought my idle
>stabilizer had gone out and was in the process of trying to prove it
>when I discovered the van was runing very rich. Hmmm... this was always
>a symptom of a dirty resistor substrate in the air flow meter. But I
>had already cleaned it to no avail. Well I took a closer look and found
>that a couple spots were worn through. Yikes! These things must cost 
>a zillion bucks so I wondered about alternatives. That's when I noticed
>that the substrate is attached by three screws. Two on one side and one
>on the other. Well I took the one screw out of the one side and was 
>then able to pivot the substrate so that the wiper came in contact with 
>non worn substrate. 

I am really interested in trying this process on my '85.  Any details--I
have never removed or looked inside an air flow meter before.  What does the
substrate resistor look like?  How is it cleaned?  Details, give me details!!
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Donald Baxter  <dbax@mindspring.com>  Atlanta, Georgia
404.874-3292 (home)
404.447.6831 (work)

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You know why the reason why some nights you don't have a dream?
When there's just blackness? And total silence?

Well, this is the reason:
It's because on that night you are in somebody else's dream.
And the reason you can't be in your own dream because
you're already busy in somebody else's dream.

                                -Laurie Anderson, Stories from the Nerve
Bible (1993)