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Subject:Stuck at home (troubleshooting help needed)
From:John Runberg
Date:Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:39:11 -0400

Anyone have a moment to share their opinion? We were supposed to go
camping this weekend but the westy's conspiring against us :(

Basically, there's no low-end power -- ex. if we're going 45mph in
4th and go to accelerate it just lags. Try 35mph in 4th and nothing.
It'll get there after a little, but this is just not right. Downshift
and it's better, but not great.

Details: 1983.5 Westy with a 1.9 engine, rebuilt 25k ago. New plugs/
cap/rotor/wires. Had bad throttle response and replaced the AFM with
a known-good unit. No gas smell. Idles fine.

Ideas? Tomorrow I'm going to start going through it -- any thoughts
appreciated!

john

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