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Hi - very late reply but I have a similar problem. I need to get hold of a new or used 0.25 central bearing (the 2 half-shells) so I can build my engine. I have all the others in the set (late DJ 2.1 3-piece thrust) but I'm stuck without that one. Can anyone help please?

Quick update - I've just driven it to South West France and back. Did about 2000km and no engine problems at all...

Thanks again for the advice

Paul

Damn! The main problem was the HT leads... Hadn't suspected them because they were fairly new and I'd already tried swapping them in various combinations with another old set I had. Here's what I did first last week which improved things a bit - took distributor to bits, checked and reassembled it, ...

Ah - now I get what you mean. I'll test throttle switch and investigate AFM as far as I can without a CO tester. Also there should be a way of cutting out the idle system temporarily so it's off, and see if that makes a difference driving...

Hey thanks for all the replies! MM - have changed plugs but not HT leads - will try with new leads as per Aidan's reply too. But how does the HT system know whether the engine's under load or not?? And how could that be dependent on throttle position? Re: second question: When starting off driving f...

Hi - looking for some diagnostic advice before I take the major step of pulling the engine to bits... This is a 1989 vanagon 2.1 DJ which I bought about 5 years ago. The engine sounds good - no rattles etc and ran fine until about a year ago, since when it's been running rough and losing power under...