I have heard the "Capacator fix" mentioned many times but have not seen
instructions on how to do it. Is there a "walk through" somewhere on the
Vanagon site?

-----Original Message-----
From: Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: Engine cutting out

>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