Vanagon stalling / surging · Aussieveedubbers

Bizarre · 10 Jan 2010, 9:04 pm

am having issues with my vanagon 2.1L

I am sure it is in the dizzy??

I had the heads "reset" the other day (early December)
They had been leaking so we took the heads off and put new sealant there and all was well for a month
Obviously for this the manifolds etc etc all had to come off
As i said - all was well for a while

When this was done the mechanic showed me that the connector to the distributor was dodgy so he put some cable ties around the distributor to hold in place.

In the last 2 days it has started missing and stalling

I am sure it is the connector as if you have a "bit of a fiddle" it will run fine again for a little while (5 mins to a day)

Symptons are worse case - stalling
More common is not responding to throttle
Mainly on take off

a) does this sound like distributor trouble

b) new dizzys seem hard to come by. Is there any option beside stock distributors??

Thanks

Barry

Bizarre · 11 Jan 2010, 2:12 pm

OK - pretty sure i have it sorted

Connector is loose - but that aint the problem
It was the other way.
After much cutting away of wiring loom "conduit" as when i was jiggling the main loom she was surging
Turned out to be the sensor plug to the water temp sensor was loose.

The other part of the problem was the oxygen sensor connector near the head on the LHS was disconnected.
My guess was it wasnt connected properly (if at all) after the work on the heads

Anyway - all seems to be fine now

Have found (hopefully) a new distributor so will grab that and replace anyway

Barry

barls · 11 Jan 2010, 2:35 pm

good to hear barry

Bizarre · 11 Jan 2010, 3:57 pm

Yeah - Les got me looking at the "other" places

Thanks

barls · 11 Jan 2010, 4:02 pm

ill let him know when he gets back.

vw54 · 11 Jan 2010, 4:06 pm

were u chewin jucie ???

Bizarre · 11 Jan 2010, 4:15 pm

vw54 wrote:were u chewin jucie ???

Hard to tell

I never get to drive the bloody thing these days - i just pay for the petrol

And it has only been playing up for a day or 3
Been fine up until then

But while i was trying to fix it - it was blowing black smoke
Gathering it was getting stoopid signals at the ECU cause of the bad connections

#1 has just got back and mumbled something about - "yeah - runs great"