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Re: adding resister to center 1.9 coolant temp gauge?
Historical mailing list - neil n
Tue, 6 Jul 2010 23:34:40 -0700
...When started, it was sometimes rough, but would always feel "flooded" when trying to start it. Recently, it would also "hunt" at idle when...
High Alt. Tune Up? And 1/2 trip report
Historical mailing list - Jeffrey R
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 19:33:04 EDT
...It was a bit flooded,( and I helped that happen.) I had used 87 octane gas as opposed to the 89 I usually use...
Re: Van won't run right - troubleshooting help
Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:59:47 -0400
...The van will run fine without it plugged in and sometimes they can fail and cause the van to run super rich (flooded). If...
Re: COLD START PROBLEM!!!!!!!!! anyone!!!!!
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:46:50 -0400
...no start when cold, and now, no start when hot!!!! Black smoke with heavy hesitation, kind a feel a it's flooded! injecting brake...
Re: '88 Westy: Aux Battery Problem
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:13:41 -0400
...I am even considering a return to flooded batteries for UPS systems at work. The sealed batteries fail without warning and in a UPS...
Re: Won't start cold (85 2.1L)
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:49:56 -0600
...dry out a bit (on the > idea I might have inadvertently flooded them). No dice. > > When I adjusted the timing, it felt and sounded...
what is the resistance?
Historical mailing list - Raymond Paquette
Sun, 23 Jul 2006 06:20:25 -0800
...the van, to my surprise > it started, although reluctantly, like a flooded engine. Ever since then, > when the engine was hot and the van...
I want to go on my trip....
Historical mailing list - Jon B. Kanas
Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:24:00 -0600
...It had to be towed once when I severely flooded it in the Colorado mountains as -30F. I sold it when I located a...
Re: Aux Battery: Life span of charged battery
Historical mailing list - Brenda Zendzian
Sun, 3 May 1998 20:56:56 -1000
...You can get cheaper ones with flooded cell batteries, but they do not last as long. I hope this helps. Pete peterz@gte.net...
Re: Waving
Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:42:48 -0700
...they have rain, but not often. > > So out west we are flooded with Vanagons comparatively. Perhaps in > another > ten years we will wave. Or...
Re: Strange Vanagon problem in Belize
Historical mailing list - Mike
Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:48:05 -0500
...It will crank over and try to fire but it almost seems super flooded to me. You can smell gas, the fuel pump is...
Re: Fixed Propane Fridge
Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:27:05 -0700
...I'm starting suspect the piezo is not > firing every time, or the spark is very weak, so it is flooded with gas, then...
Re: Intermittent running problem.
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Sun, 22 May 2016 12:12:36 -0400
...Drive for >>> >> awhile then shut it done for less than a minute and it runs like >>> >> it is flooded. On restarting I'll sit...
titles for cars that dont have titles
Historical mailing list
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:18:21 EST
...they werent wrecked, stolen or flooded, the titles were just lost. vehicles were towed off because former owners abandoned them or died and their...
Re: Higher elevation -- anything to watch out for?
Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:21:49 EDT
...Kind of a flooded situation in that I had to pull the plugs, let it all dry out for a while, and then it...
Re: temp2 sensor?
Historical mailing list - alfred bagdan
Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:17:40 -0700
...the van, to my surprise it started, although reluctantly, like a flooded engine. Ever since then, when the engine was hot and the van...
Re: heading out tomorrow (NVC)
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:06:33 -0800
...Well, I-5 in southern western Washington was flooded last night the TV said. Around Chehalis, between Olympia and the Columbia River. You'd...
Re: NEW - SERIOUS FUEL PROBLEM - I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
Historical mailing list - Kurt Grotz
Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:15:16 -0400
...OUCH!!!! Talk about flooded! So to make a long story short I completely flooded the air-gas-oil all the fluid systems with gasoline...
Re: Why AGM batts don't last as long as they should
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:22:25 -0700
...to > 13.7 > volts, depending on load, which is fine for flooded standard and deep > cycle > batteries, but never fully charges an AGM. So...
Re: Fixed Propane Fridge
Historical mailing list - Germain Gagnon
Fri, 29 Aug 2003 19:25:14 -0400
...I'm starting suspect the piezo is not firing every time, or the spark is very > weak, so it is flooded with gas, then...
Re: Vitrifrigo: two corrections to my earlier post
Historical mailing list - Troy
Mon, 3 Oct 2011 13:11:32 -0800
...Search for flooded cell battery theory and operation and let us know what you find.
Skid plates [2]
Historical mailing list - Tobin T. Copley
Wed, 5 Jul 1995 07:04:07 -0700 (PDT)
OK, you maniacs! I got flooded by people asking me where I got the "Journeys under difficult conditions" manual. These folks were apparently just...
Re: heading out tomorrow (NVC)
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:18:03 -0800
...heading out tomorrow ... > > Well, I-5 in southern western Washington was flooded last night the > TV said. > Around Chehalis, between Olympia and the Columbia...
Re: Black Friday vanagon and camper items?
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:12:06 -0800
...Alistair, now I read that hundreds of people are stranded on flooded highways up your way, or at least BC way. I hope everyone...
Re: COLD START PROBLEM!!!!!!!!! anyone!!!!!
Historical mailing list - Benoit
Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:56:11 -0400
...no start when cold, and now, no start when hot!!!! >> >>Black smoke with heavy hesitation, kind a feel a it's flooded! >> >> >> >>injecting brake...
Re: NEW - SERIOUS FUEL PROBLEM - I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:45:56 -0400
...OUCH!!!! Talk about flooded! So to make a long story short I >completely flooded the air-gas-oil all the fluid systems with gasoline...
Re: Syncro recently moved to Massachusetts
Historical mailing list - Raymond Paquette
Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:54:50 -0400
...My two favorite stories are of pushing a lifted macho man truck through a flooded vado in Baja. He thought he could get through...
Re: <no subject>
Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:26:22 -0800
...A little cranking later and it roared to life (by then it was also flooded) a few farts and lots of smoke and it...
Re: Xantrex XM 1000 PRO + Batteries in Parallel
Historical mailing list - M'obeechi
Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:48:52 -0700
...I know that you want to match battery types (ie flooded with flooded), but please tell me that battery sizes don't have to...
Re: UPDATE - Won't idle but getting combustion-'88 2.1L (Long)
Historical mailing list - Barrett Willet
Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:28:15 -0700
...Keep in mind it sat for close to 24 hours so it shouldn't be flooded. Well after towing it home it started right...
Re: Daily First Start Hard
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Tue, 20 May 2003 20:32:00 -0700
...Anytime your engine is hard to start it is likely to get flooded. I'd start on simple things like point adjustment, clean or...
Re: Deep Cycle Batteries
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:33:02 -0500
...John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Dennis Haynes wrote: > Of the battery choices out there, a conventional flooded cell will be the > most tolerant of...
Re: Batteries don't die, they get murdered
Historical mailing list - Philip Zimmerman
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:01:58 -0800
...a possible spill, (sail boat that may cap size), a conventional flooded cell will take more abuse, and outlast an AGM or gel battery...
Re: Fuel Tank R&R-Now Won't Start
Historical mailing list - craig cowan
Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:51:57 -0400
...You cold try a fuel pressure test in the engine compartment.....maybe it's getting fuel and you flooded it somehow......or you've...
Re: Battery Voltage under cold starting load?
Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:06:08 -0800
...sunny rock. > > With cold weather, the ability of the Lead Acid flooded cell battery to > deliver starting current to the vanagon starter is diminished...
Re: Stick to Vanagons?
Historical mailing list - Ed Carroll
Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:29:54 -0400
...Total strangers? Sure...but >nevertheless, there is that bond. > >I'm not at all suggesting that the list should be flooded with political >rhetoric...
Re: Vanagon Snydrome?
Historical mailing list - Dave Bohannan
Fri, 4 Aug 2017 11:33:32 -0400
...I was on a two lane highway > with no shoulder and it was very dangerous! I think I flooded it trying to > keep it...
Re: Castrol, QT, 5W50 vs. Amsoil - cold no-start
Historical mailing list - Jack R.
Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:45:23 -0500
...Continuous trying will cause the engine to get flooded. Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack R." Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 8:38 am Subject...
Re: Camping in cold & battery
Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:30:01 -0800
...occasion when I added a ram scoop to the > vent and flooded my alternator into failure in a heavy rain storm. > > Stan Wilder > > On...
Re: Black Friday vanagon and camper items?
Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:06:23 -0800
...Alistair, now I read that hundreds of people are stranded on > flooded highways up your way, or at least BC way. I hope everyone...
Re: Poor Hot Start Discovery - midway through solution
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:27:55 -0500
...much) fuel to the engine, thereby preventing "the engine gets itself flooded when "hot starting". > > Is this correct? > > Thank you. > > Skip > '84 Digijet > > ----- Original...
cranky when wet
Historical mailing list - Jonathan Poole
Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:32:20 -0500
...the throttle open for a while to see if it was flooded. I can do this because I have a fuel shut-off under...
Re: Vitrifrigo: two corrections to my earlier post
Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:50:26 -0700
...Search for flooded cell battery theory and operation and let us know what you find. Fizzix, it's just fizzix, it's always just...
It Pings...It Pings...finally
Historical mailing list
Fri, 15 Sep 1995 06:39:26 -0700
...It was behaving like it was flooded. The first go around with this I had determined my temperature sensor from the cylinder head was...
Re: Engine is being flooded with fuel. Help??
Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:45:53 -0400
There should be a ground from the left head to the engine bay wall (just below the coil). There's another from the tranny...
Re: heading out tomorrow ... ( NVC )
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:39:12 -0800
...Well, I-5 in southern western Washington was flooded last night the TV said. Around Chehalis, between Olympia and the Columbia River. You'd...
Re: Temp 2 Sensor
Historical mailing list - John Lane
Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:24:31 -0700
...the van, to my surprise it started, although reluctantly, like a flooded engine. Ever since then, when the engine was hot and the van...
Re: HELP! Westy Stranded in Bryce Canyon National Park...
Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
Sun, 1 May 2005 01:39:12 EDT
...In essence the engine is getting too much fuel to start--it is "flooded." It is running rich we would say if it were...
Re: LVC Friday: Camp Fire Heat Damage Cell Phone?
Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
Sun, 21 Jul 2013 09:24:57 -0700
...rescued 2 (yes 2) Go Pro Hero 2 cameras that got flooded (salt water). I soaked them in a few changes of fresh water...
Re: Vitrifrigo: two corrections to my earlier post
Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
Mon, 3 Oct 2011 17:13:42 -0700
...Search for flooded cell battery theory and operation and let us know what you find.
Re: 82 now cranks but stil won't start when hot.
Historical mailing list - Higginbotham, David A.
Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:23:44 -0500
...If this were a carbureted vehicle I would thing it was flooded. When I feather the accelerator pedal or push it to the floor...
Re: COLD START PROBLEM!!!!!!!!! anyone!!!!!
Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:08:40 -0700
...no start when cold, and now, no start when hot!!!! >> >>Black smoke with heavy hesitation, kind a feel a it's flooded! >> >> >> >>injecting brake...
Re: heading out tomorrow (NVC)
Historical mailing list
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:09:45 -0500
...Well, I-5 in southern western Washington was flooded last night the TV said. Around Chehalis, between Olympia and the Columbia River. You'd...
Re: Hard Starting Cold and Hot
Historical mailing list - Tim Marciniak
Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:41:54 -0500
...floor and the crank the > key like you do with a flooded carbuerated engine---in a few seconds it > then starts and the idle...
Re: Trip report
Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:11:05 -0700
...Almost like it > was flooded. Any suggestions? > > Thanks again > Jeff > 85 Westfalia GL, Winnipeg > Shawn Wright http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright '85 Jetta...
Who is interested in auxilulary fuel tanks ?
Historical mailing list - David Marshall
Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:32:56 -0800
...The bottom forward chamber was totally isolated from the other two and was about 5cm deep and was flooded with engine coolant from the...
Re: Fixed Propane Fridge
Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:31:06 -0700
...I'm starting > suspect the piezo is not > > firing every time, or the spark is very weak, so > it is flooded with gas, then...
Re: Xantrex XM 1000 PRO + Batteries in Parallel
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:30:13 -0400
...I know that you want to match battery types (ie flooded with flooded), but please tell me that battery sizes don't have to...
Re: VANAGON FOR SALE? HELP Diagnosis needed STAT!
Historical mailing list
Wed, 30 Apr 1997 03:42:43 -0400
...If that >>happens the reason is that it is flooded. When engine is warm, best to >>open throtle all the way to disable cold...
Re: LVC/ Re: Why Americans Are the Jerks of the World!
Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:56:54 -0500
...So that we will feel that we are moving forward and becoming prosperous, we're flooded with cheap junk from all over the world...