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• Starting
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:46:35 -0700
  ...My guess would be timing, afm wiper card contacts, afm spring tension/sticking afm, verify that both check valvel in the fuel ijecttion system...
• Re: strange bucking problem w/ '84 vanagon wbx
  Historical mailing list - jbange
  Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:20:54 -0800
  ...It's basically a short cable with a male connector on one end and a female on the other that goes between the AFM...
• Re: What does AFM Stand For?
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:18:42 +1000
  ...rmstewart@MAC.COM writes: > > > >Sorry for my ignorance but what does AFM stand for? > >That'd be the Air Flow Meter. Unless you're...
• Re: I wonder why
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Mon, 8 Jan 2018 09:09:22 -0800
  ...And i guess it would take an awful lot of use to wear out the bearing surfaces for the afm flap shafts. On Sunday...
• Re: Bus Depot AFM?
  Historical mailing list - Ron Salmon
  Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:51:41 -0700
  >> Have you tried putting the remanufactured Bus Depot AFM into your van >> to see how it runs? > Actually no we didn't try that...
• Re: Air Intake Project
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Sun, 27 May 2001 23:07:03 -0500
  ...It sounded like to me you pinned the AFM, when you were on gas, not propane. The butterfly is where you put it. Zero...
• Re: Fw: AFM Tuning... Re: Me and our '88 are glad to be back
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 5 Aug 2000 11:05:47 -0400
  Wottheheck is a power timer connection? d At 13:09 6/8/2000, Gary Stearns wrote: >the AFM had very poor wire attachments. It...
• Re: compression/vacuum/fuel pressure/O2 voltage
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 16 Oct 2001 07:45:14 -0400
  ...You could open up the AFM and loosen the spring a few notches. Measure the Os sensor output as you are driving. Does it...
• AFM/Digifant � factory "harness fix" for sale
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 7 May 2002 07:15:05 -0400
  ...Plugs in-line to the AFM in seconds. $75+ship \\\\////\\\\////\\\\\////\\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\ Frank Terhaar-Yonkers W4FTY TRA 8325/L2 Cisco Systems, Inc. NSITE - Pineview Building - RTP...
• Re: afm air screw question?
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:50:07 -0800
  ...wrote: > Does anybody know how the air mixture screw in > the afm rotates? Which way equals richer or > leaner? Hope somebody can take a...
• Re: Alternative Mounting of AFM and Air Filter Box
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:59:48 -0700
  What you are describing sounds nothing like the stock way of removing the AFM box. It takes under 30 seconds, all standing up. Mark...
• AFM
  Historical mailing list - Scott Walker
  Sat, 1 May 1999 12:16:56 -0400
  With all the current talk about AFM's, I decided to go ahead and post this. What I have is three AFM's (part...
• Re: electronic cleaners/AFM cleaning
  Historical mailing list - Debi
  Sat, 1 May 1999 13:50:03 -0700
  ...electronic cleaners/AFM cleaning I agree with you Alistair... Isopropanol is an ideal cleaner with almost zero residue, but getting it to spray hard...
• Re: Digfiant being defiant
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:50:42 -0500
  ...Possibly your afm (air flow meter) main spring has relaxed a bit and is causing your too rich mixture. I have seen afm off...
• Crummy Vanagon performance
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sat, 15 May 2021 02:25:22 +0000
  ...Above confirms a signal integrity issue with AFM - replacement required; Repair: Source replacement AFM - approximately $500 CAD and NOT available; Remove AFM cover plate...
• GOWESTY AFM no start problem
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:38:17 -0400
  ...Decided to install the new reconditioned GOWESTY AFM today. I disconnected the O2 sensor then installed the AFM started the engine with the O2...
• FS: New AFM for '86-91
  Historical mailing list - Shaners [KS Div]
  Tue, 9 Mar 1999 00:05:20 -0600
  When my Vanagon broke down last week I was so sure it was the AFM I ordered one right away. Well that wasn't...
• Re: Need AFM Seal
  Historical mailing list - The Old Volks Home
  Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:05:30 -0700
  At 01:57 PM 8/22/02 -0500, Darren wrote: >I just bought a new AFM for my '87 Westy. I tried using the...
• Re: Pig Tail for early vans?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:21:50 -0400
  ...If you're talking about the AFM Fix, then it applies equally to the Digifant and the Digijet. They are electrically the same and...
• Re: 85gl acceleration Flat spot untill warmed up
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:39:07 -0800
  ...85gl acceleration Flat spot untill warmed up > TC, > What is a ;"python injection afm"? > > Ken > > > ----- Original Message ----- > ......> last 48 > > python injection afm > >
• Re: Inside the Air Flow Meter / AFM
  Historical mailing list - Tim Schneider
  Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:24:31 +0000
  The guys at gowesty, with the help of folks splitsecond in orange county, have engineered a system that replaces the guts of the AFM...
• Fwd: Hmmm...
  Historical mailing list - Aerowolf
  Mon, 5 Jul 2004 17:56:49 -0500
  ...Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@sbcglobal.net> The AFM rotary spring is held in place by a stiff wire attached by a thread-locked screw...
• Re: AFM spring adjsutment
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:09:37 -0800
  ...2) Open up the AFM, mark the original position of the wheel. 3) Tighten the AFM spring by, say, 7 teeth. 4) Close up...
• Re: K&N Cone filters Cold Air Intake for vanagon-eliminate factory airbox
  Historical mailing list - P.Dooley
  Sat, 25 Dec 2004 16:53:28 -0500
  ...The 87-88 2.3T Thunderbird Turbocoupe uses a bigger AFM and corresponding plate, but the early TC and Xr4Ti AFM's use a...
• Billy Bones Update - puzzled!
  Historical mailing list - Warren.K.Lail-1
  Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:49:00 -0600
  ...Decided to switch AFM back. Would not start with Billy's original AFM. Reinstalled AFM from GL to Billy. Ran great. Thought problem solved...
• Re: Working ranges for Temp sensor and AFM
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:45:12 -0400
  Your numbers match what I measured last night on my old and new AFM. I noticed the new AFM has what appears to be...
• Re: Understanding AFC fuel injection--question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:39:06 -0500
  ...Understanding AFC fuel injection--question There is a little plastic covered sensor in my AFM. It measures air temp passing through the AFM. When...
• Re: Quest for instructions on AFM modification instructions
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Wed, 10 May 2023 10:05:28 -0700
  ...Here's the summary of the link posted by Steven. - Get a 15 volt 22 microfarad tantalum capacitor - Open up the AFM - Solder the...
• Re: 060412 AFM question
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:16:28 -0400
  ...One of those was > tweeking the AFM. For those of you who have experience with the AFM, > should the wiper be moving (jitter or...
• I have a gas puzzler..
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer 19618-5th Ave so Seattle WA 98148
  Sat, 2 Oct 1999 03:54:27 EDT
  ...Why is the question? This had me thinking that it was a bad AFM, but I have swapped several without any change. The AFM...
• Re: CO Adjusting Screw. PO Set it All The Way In? Base Setting?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:45:24 -0400
  ...If you think about it, Scott, with the AFM closed there could be no airflow through the engine except through the idle bypass, and...
• Re: Heh -- I'm such a ninnyhammer
  Historical mailing list - Mike Elliott
  Sun, 3 Aug 2008 18:13:08 -0700
  Oh great -- some secret set screw buried in the AFM body. And I should tell the shop to hook up the sniffer, unearth that...
• AFM Testing?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Gough
  Fri, 11 May 2001 15:06:31 -0500
  ...I have two AFM's in hand. Both show similar resistance changes with movement, but one seems to have some drop-outs. Couldn't...
• Re: AFC Spring Adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sat, 24 Mar 2001 07:13:01 -0600
  Mark McCulley wrote: > I've seen the topic of AFM spring adjustment discussed on this list for > years now and I still don't...
• Re: What symptoms from leaking AFM boot?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 18 Apr 2003 20:49:57 -0600
  ...What symptoms from leaking AFM boot? > > > > >>Since I never got an answer when I asked this question before, I'll ask >>again. What symptoms...
• Re: Heh -- I'm such a ninnyhammer
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 3 Aug 2008 21:00:37 -0400
  ...There is a plug in your AFM that can be drilled, a screw put into the hole, and by pulling up on the screw...
• Re: strange bucking problem w/ '84 vanagon wbx
  Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
  Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:16:39 -0500
  Kim Brennan once stated in a list email or a pmail to me that he had seen the insides of the VW AFM harness...
• Re: 1.9L Hiccup Remedy?
  Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
  Tue, 23 May 2006 11:29:39 -0400
  ...First, there is the expensive harness built by VW which plugs in between the usual connection from the harness to the AFM and AFM...
• AFM Wear?
  Historical mailing list - KBatzler
  Sun, 6 Dec 1998 08:27:27 -0800
  I was wondering....I installed the famous capacitor (22mfd)and ground strap at the AFM to cure the "acceleration hesitation" problem that I've...
• 1.9L-poor cold running, tach and van bucking
  Historical mailing list - Scott Wilson
  Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:45:22 -0700
  ...am i in need of a new afm? already tried the capicitor fix, no help...if this is not the afm, what could it...
• Re: 2.2 engine hiccups at 3300 rpm
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Sun, 27 Aug 2017 13:40:19 -0700
  ...I'd think that the carbon tracks on the AFM were worn at the 3K/3.5K rpm spot (that's where the contact...
• AFM wire harness...
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 1 Dec 2016 10:00:52 -0800
  hi all, I have this 1985 van, WBX 1.9 with a very bad AFM wiring harness - and I am looking for a used...
• AFM how to set ?
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:32:46 -0700
  I have managed to get my AFM out of adjustment(1980 2.0 L air cooled), with the exhaust gas tester what readings am...
• Re: Digifant component comparison between Jetta and Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:45:48 -0500
  ...However, I'm using a 2.1 (Digifant) air cleaner, AFM and throttle body. The Digifant AFM works great with the Digijet system without...
• Re: AFM adjustment; clockwise or anticlockwise?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:58:11 -0400
  ...After the engine warms up and goes into closed loop, (O2 sensor control), the AFM meter adjustment becomes moot unless you get it far...
• Capacitor fix, AFM maintenance file sent
  Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
  Wed, 21 Feb 2001 07:46:34 -0500
  The second email of the capacitor fix / AFM file was sent out a few minutes ago. I think that I got everyone who requested...
• Re: Heh -- I'm such a ninnyhammer
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 3 Aug 2008 20:47:05 -0400
  ...Mixture is controlled by fuel pressure regulator, injectors, injector timing/drive from ECU, AFM, AFM decoding in ECU. I'm guessing at intermittent in...
• Re: AFM intermittancy result?
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"
  Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:53:44 -0700
  Okay, so my van's 3 to 4 second loss of power would not have been due to a slight problem in the AFM...
• AFM Carbon Track Cleaning Procedure...
  Historical mailing list - Scott DeSanti
  Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:33:19 EDT
  Hello Volks, By chance does anyone out the have a procedure for cleaning the AFM carbon track. I am currently without Bently or Haynes...
• The dreaded AFM adjustment screw
  Historical mailing list - Mike Frost
  Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:51:45 -0800
  So I have convinced myself that I need to adjust the mixture screw on the AFM but I have some trepidation about it. There...
• Re: Quest for instructions on AFM modification instructions
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Wed, 10 May 2023 09:35:20 -0400
  ...benefit, he may need to add it to my AFM as My new GW AFM, It came with my 84 and is just two...
• AFM black plastic cap removal - Nervous
  Historical mailing list - Chris Radcliffe
  Sun, 20 Jan 2002 22:33:16 -0800
  ...I'd like to investigate the mild hesitation that has just started with my Westy, including peeking into the AFM to check the tracking...
• Re: Continuing saga of symptoms imitating vanagon syndrome--85 westy
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:38:39 -0700
  ...I have... > replaced afm w. another, added a .22 mfd > capacitor to this afm, added a ground wire to > the afm,swapped ecu,swapped...
• Re: hesitation/bucking (was: Re: tested Oxygen Sensor, and...)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sat, 17 May 2008 20:47:26 -0700
  Driving with a less than perfect AFM is not likely to hurt anything else. You have the right idea about making the contact arm...
• Re: An AFM Thing I Learned Today
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:36:53 -0700
  ...An AFM Thing I Learned Today | |At 06:40 PM 8/12/2010 Thursday, Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" wrote: |>If you forget to plug...
• Re: GOWESTY AFM no start problem
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:21:27 -0700
  ...Decided to install the new reconditioned > GOWESTY AFM today. > I disconnected the O2 sensor then installed the AFM started the engine with > the O2...
• Service Bulletin for AFMs and harness
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:28:34 EST
  Been talking to several people lately about Vanagon AFMs (gee I wonder why?) and the ghost harness. I remember seeing a post of the...
• fire sale 2.1 FI Parts,
  Historical mailing list - Kevin C
  Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:09:47 EST
  ...AFM $50 AFM fix harness $25 ISV $25 ISV RELAY $25 ECU $50 Package price is $150 for everything shipped. If you do that...
• MAF sensor and a waterboxer
  Historical mailing list - Clint Kolda
  Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:43:17 -0700
  ...He said he removed the AFM and wired in a GM mass airflow sensor. He said he now gets 26-27MPG. He indicated there...
• Re: Quest for instructions on AFM modification instructions
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Wed, 10 May 2023 12:05:54 -0700
  ...That bad gasket allows more air in and makes the fuel/air ratio wrong, the AFM itself can't not correct it. On Wed...