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> From: The Martins <nitram@tbcnet.com>
> To: JWALKER@ualvm.ua.edu
> Subject: Vanagon Hesitation Cheap Fix
> Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 12:39 PM
>
> Dear Joel,
>
>      I'm new to the Vanagon world.(used to have a 72 Westy)  I just
bought
> a '85.  It did to the "Clasic" signs of the hesitation problems after
about
> 15 min at 55mph.  I read in the archives that using  a 22MFD,Tantalum
> capacit, or 25VDC  etc.  would help, but then I read that there was more
to
> it than that and I have not read anything since.  What is the current
> status on the "cheap fix".  Also while changing the airfilter I noticed a
> fair amount of oil in the throat of the air control valve, is this normal
(
> or nor too unusaual) ?  I wondered if it was blown there by a backfire,
as
> the case breather tube is inserted just down stream of there.
>    Thanks for your help.  If I don't here from you before Christmas, have
a
> Merry Christmas
>
>
> Larry