At 01:34 AM 9/11/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>I have an '88 with the exact symptoms you describe. With one additional
>feature. If I blip the throttle sharply up to about 3500 rpm I can get the
>idle to drop to 1000. I'm taking it to a local mechanic tomorrow, as I
>don't have the time to fiddle with it myself - but the mechanic said that
>often the throttle butterfly gets coated with carbon and then does not
>close easily - hence high idle. I had already checked the idle stabilizer
>and cleaned that out - so I'll know tomorrow what the verdict is.
>
>Todd Last
>'88 Westfalia
>
More likely is that the bearings and/or the butterfly shaft that rides in
the bearings of the throttle housing have become worn.

Austin