This happened to mine, five or six years ago ('85 GL).  Replacing the
distributor cured it--I had a bad Hall Sender.

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Donald Baxter  Iowa City, Iowa
(319) 337-0494
www.mindspring.com/~onanov

"You can't win: if you tell lies, you'll be distrusted; if you tell the
truth, you'll be disliked."
        -- Jean Anouilh

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Andree Hurley
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 12:17 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Oh oh, power problem

I was happily driving my new '85 on the LA freeway yesterday in
(unhappily) bad stop-and-go traffic. I was speeding up in third and
getting ready to shift into fourth when it unexpectedly lost power,
suddenly, like a burp. I made it home but am worried - it didn't seem to
like the steep hill and I had to baby it on up in second. This van had a
good compression test some six months ago and doesn't have any obvious
problems (oil and water stay at their levels).

Thanks,

Andree