Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:56:28 -0600
Reply-To: Dan Haydon <DanHaydon@CORNERSTONESOFTWARE.COM>
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From: Dan Haydon <DanHaydon@CORNERSTONESOFTWARE.COM>
Subject: Re: Intermittent Syndrome?
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Joe -
That sounds like my problem to some extent. I will check-out my AFM as well,
as you point out, it could be an issue. I just had a similar issue with my
83 320i BMW. It would just cut out....turned out to be a bad ground on the
fusebox - so I'm thinking, maybe it would be best to start at the grounds?
Also, are you aware of the capacitor fix people are talking about? I figure
I'll just do it becasue it would be a cheap fix (if it turns out to be a
"fix" in this scenario).
Darn. Good luck with your van.
Dan Haydon
----- Original Message -----
From: <fortinoj@speakeasy.net>
To: "Dan Haydon" <DanHaydon@corsof.com>; <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Intermittent Syndrome?
> Dan,
>
> Does it cut out while driving at speeds? jerking and such? seems
> my airflow meter has been playing games least I think its this unit,
> it will be like someone is pushing the gas pedel all over the place
> while i'm driving. I opened the box and yes my track is worn out a bit
> but noticed that it vibrates alot and might be loosing contact with the
> strip on the airflow meter?
>
> also i'll be driving and have the pedel on to only have it loose power and
> slowly just turn off, I'll need to turn the key to fire it up again, no
hard starting problems just cut outs and it will die, down shifting or
putting the
> pedel on more will not even help while i'm running.
>
> Joe
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Haydon [mailto:DanHaydon@CORNERSTONESOFTWARE.COM]
> > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 03:04 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Intermittent Syndrome?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This past weekend, I was cruising down the road and my oil light turned
on. The heat gauge indicator was well below the half-way point, and the
light stayed on for about 10-15 minutes until the motor began to cut-out
intermittently. At one point it died and I was able to restart the motor and
drive home. The next day the same thing happened, although without any
indication from the blinking oil light. This time she just died and I was
unable to start it for a few hours, seemingly after she had cooled off.
> >
> > This just started over the weekend, and I can think of anything that
I've done to the van to precipitate this behavior. I do have a rear main
seal leak. Can it be that the oil light is coming on because I am losing oil
pressure, hence the motor failure?
> >
> > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated,
> > Dan Haydon
> >
>
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