At 11:40 PM 1/10/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I have an 87 Westy that also had hesitation. Tried everything,

>UNTIL I by accident found the following VW Technical Bulletin.
>
>Here is a copy and it applies to all watercooled Vanagons, not just the
Digifant ones (there is an updated bulletin no.92-02 that states all
waterboxers) ;
>
>Technical Bulletin blahblahblah (BIG snip):

Which of course refers to the infamous harness cure that you can replicate
with a 22mf/35V tantalum capacitor.  FWIW I did the same 'cure' to my son's
'92 8 valve 1.8 liter Golf with Digifant;  after first carefully perusing
the Bentley wiring diagrams for the Vanagon & the Golf, deciding indeed
they were similar enough to try, we went ahead & did it to the Golf (he'd
been having similar cut-out problems to what we have with Vanagons) - and
it WORKED!!!  He makes a 2k round trip several times a year, & when it
happened he'd just pull over, shut down, restart & go on until it'd do it
again.  He just called & said it ran perfectly this time.

Spend the $1.10 & one hour & be amazed!!!

Austin