

| Subject: | Re: mileage |
| From: | Mark McCulley |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:44:23 -0800 |
Buses and Vanagons have been fuel injected since 1975. Fuel injection systems have no carburators and thus, no automatic choke. One cause of the hunting idle can be a sticking throttle switch. The throttle switch is supposed to sense two conditions: idle and wide-open throttle. Next time this happens, try tapping on the accelerator pedal a couple of times. If the idle becomes steady, you have a sticking throttle switch which you can clean and lubricate (but don't try to adjust it!). -Mark McCulley At 09:47 AM 3/18/98 -0500, Sudhir Desai wrote: >> >One other puzzle. Towards the end of the trip I pulled in for gas and >> >when I stopped and put the trans in netural the engine began reving up >> >and down between 1000 and 1800 rpm. Hasen't done it since so it really >> >has me puzzled. Any ideas? > >on our, van on the second engine my mom put in, (the first engine from vw >gave up the ghost as we were driving to Tennessee) but anywy, the revving >in neutral is becasue of the automatic choke sticking. at least that's >what was up with ours. > > > >Sudhir H. Desai 1984 VW Vanagon 3.4 liter Chevy V-6 >cdes@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu 1996 Subaru Outback 2.2 liter flat-4 >sudhir_desai@geocities.com 1997 Jeep Cherokee > >http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1889 >
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