

| Subject: | Intermittant loss of power |
| From: | Ron Mighton |
| Date: | Tue, 14 Oct 1997 22:08:42 -0400 |
Way back in early September I sent this message to you volks. >From: Ron Mighton <rmighton@passport.ca> >Subject: Intermittant loss of power > >I have a 90 westfalia that about once a month or so loses power after running about 2 miles. It will slow right down and stall. i can always start it right up again and it will run oK at an idle but backfire and stall if given any gas. It will do this for maybe about 2 minutes then as it gets a bit warmer it runs fine again an the problem may not happen again for weeks. I have checked for bad grounds but all looks fine . I would be grateful for any suggestions. thanks in advance. I wanted to thank the many respondants E Miskow,Joel Walker, T Bill, Lawrence Johnston, Ken Lewis, Joe Wagner, Don Gibbons and David Katsuki. The suggestions were great and so much more helpful than my local dealer who had no suggestions. Suggestions were: Put in a special noise reduction harness between the air controland the normal connector. This was a good idea and had been done already by the PO. Check the connections to the temperature sensors and/or replace the two temperature sensors which did fix one similar case. Three suggestions to check the oxygen sensor and i think THATS IT. It has taken me all this time cause the problem is sooo intermittant. But it did fail one day and immediately got better when I unplugged the oxygen sensor. I ran for a month with the sensor unplugged and no problems. I just replaced the oxygen sensor with the $49 one from Ron Salmon and all still seems OK. I will have to go for a couple of error free months to be sure so I will let you know. Many thanks again for all the help. This really is a very supportive and helpful group. I'm proud to be a part of it. (Actually I'm the gratefully getting help part.) Ron Mighton Toronto,Canada Eh!
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