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• Re: Coolant resistance thru coolant level probe
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:11:02 -0500
  ...In the past mine has blinked for weeks at a time > with the tank completely full of a reasonable mixture, and then healed itself...
• Re: EGR for aircooled vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:46:26 -0800 (PST)
  ...I believe this can be defeated by plugging the left-over holes and adjusting the timing a little to richen the air/fuel mixture...
• cheap electro magnetic
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 14 Jun 1996 19:38:12 +0200
  ...As to the idle mixture, are you referring to the screw. Have you tried calling Thomas at Custom Speed in Hyllinge. If its a...
• Re: HELP HC to High at idle 525ppm should be about 70ppm
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:25:38 -0700
  ...Incorrect fuel mixture, too rich is obvious, too lean causes a condition known as a lean misfire. Leaky injector seal or any vacuum leak...
• Re: ECU question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:19:33 -0500
  ...If the O@ sensor output is not sufficient, the ECU will keep richening the mixture to get the signal. If not working, yet, it...
• Re: Ethanol
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Mon, 7 Nov 94 16:28:17 PST
  ...The air to fuel ratio for ethanol is different > > than that for gasoline (numerically lower) so unless one can richen up their > > mixture the...
• Re: Cut you spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:57:41 -0800
  ...Maybe some back pressure? will your mixture differ? without a cat. slight spin off was refering to me :) regarding the subject and content. hope...
• Re: Extreme high idle
  Historical mailing list - PAT
  Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:19:08 -0400
  Would a stuck air flow meter flap cause high idle? I would think this would just screw up the mixture, don't think the...
• Re: Dometic in an ASI
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Fri, 1 Sep 2000 07:32:39 -0700
  ...This should give you a better air to fuel mixture at altitude... it work for me at altitude.. Bill
• Re: Catalytic convertor
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:17:52 -0500
  At 09:47 AM 1/23/2001, Keith Adams wrote: >It affects the O2 sensor, which affects your mixture. The >O2 sensor is (as...
• Re: O2 sensor problems
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:26:55 -0700
  ...I thought this was relatively cheap when compared to the time I was spending trying to adjust the fuel/air mixture by nose and...
• Re: Freeze 12?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:15:48 -0400
  ...I think there are at least a dozen such mixtures. Advantages of these may include performance and price; disadvantages are that they are unfamiliar...
• Tiico: stuttering when i step on the gas
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:55:34 -0700
  ...Should i lean the mixture to say 100 instead of 128? More stuttering w/ premium gas tells me the timing is still way off...
• RE: 73 bus / timing question...The good old days
  Historical mailing list - Easton Trevor
  Wed, 26 Jun 96 18:46:00 DST
  ...The object of advance as the revs increase is to enable the flame front of the exploding mixture to meet the piston as it...
• Re: O2 sensor testing
  Historical mailing list - Claudio Cella
  Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:44:27 -0800
  ...Normal mixtures should > read 0.5 to 0.7VDC. Bad sensor will show no volts and the ECU will run > open loop, which ususally...
• Re: Engine Problem
  Historical mailing list - Armstrong, Charles L.
  Mon, 22 Aug 94 12:20:00 cdt
  ...Did you say you had black smoke? On acceleration or deceleration? Any backfire on deceleration? If so either you have a rich mixture or...
• Re: AFC Spring Adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:49:48 -0500
  ...The O2 sensor (in conjunction with the ECU) ultimately determines the mixture based on the amount of O2 in the exhaust, right? So what...
• Re: Infrequent symptom: inconsistent power after descending hill
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:08:12 -0700
  ...with the cold O2 sensor fuel mixture will be unstable and even >over enriched until the sensor is hot enough to work again. Ah...
• Old busses and snow-a good mixture?
  Historical mailing list - Eric Oster
  Mon, 5 Dec 1994 22:29:37 -0800 (PST)
  It's snowing pretty hard outside (For WA, that's not very hard.) and I was just wondering how well my `66 camper will...
• Re: 84 NA Diesel - loss of 'performance'
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:13:37 +0100
  ...With a diesel, it is rather early or late ignition timing, than rich mixture. The air is constant on a diesel, the fuel is...
• Re: Pentosin Antifreeze ?
  Historical mailing list - John McLean
  Fri, 28 Dec 2001 08:36:11 -0800
  ...The only problem I had with the stuff was getting the mixture too strong which caused the coolant temp LED on the dash to...
• Re: Coolant resistance thru coolant level probe
  Historical mailing list - Rachel Cogent
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:19:49 -0600
  ...In the past mine has blinked for weeks at a time >> with the tank completely full of a reasonable mixture, and then healed itself...
• Re: Did the mechanic do something?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 5 Sep 2006 04:08:43 -0500
  ...Back in my flying days - and things have changed a lot since then - the pilot could manually adjust the mixture for optimum performance based...
• Re: Vanagon O2 Sensors
  Historical mailing list - Ken Ehlert
  Sun, 19 Jul 1998 19:43:33 -0500
  ...Now that you have installed one > that does work properly, this "compensating" fuel adjustment is causing the > mixture to be way off. You may...
• Re: Running rough, dies as temp gauge starts to register
  Historical mailing list - Mark A Kippert
  Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:22:41 -0500
  ...When the sensor is unplugged the > ECU stops trying to tune the mixture and instead relies on a default > fuel mixture from its internal...
• Re: Tiico owners: need input regarding poor running/missing issues
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Fri, 10 May 2002 11:50:50 -0700
  Yep- Bad MAP sensor will cause you to run rich no matter how to mess with the mixture. I would take it to a...
• Re: [T2] Air Cooled Vanagon Won't Start in cold weather
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Sat, 16 Nov 2002 09:20:25 -0800
  ...a rich mixture) to get itself started. There's 3 devices explicitly involved in the "cold start" situation: the thermo-time switch/cold start...
• Re: Performance chip
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:22:56 -0500
  For the 1.9 the ECU only controls fuel mixture. That is all this chip can possibly change. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing...
• Re: AC compressor Gurus needed!!! NVC
  Historical mailing list - Mike Pedersen
  Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:31:28 -0800
  ...down to pump air and does not blow an air/fuel mixture into the tire. Others may vary. It was handy on my IH...
• Van starts then dies?
  Historical mailing list - Rob Wright
  Mon, 9 Aug 2004 08:15:01 -0500
  ...If I increase the fuel mixture by moving the air flow meter by hand it will stay running. I just changed the ECU because...
• While were talking mixture
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:17:35 -0700
  I know when the Digifant system is in the warm-up cycle that, just like the carb models with chokes, enrichment is going on...
• Re: 87 Wolfsburg persistant hesistation problem (confusing)
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:04:17 -0400
  ...A ground equates to lean mixture which the ECU tries to correct. Since the previous owner butchered the wire in exactly this spot, I...
• Re: The two throttle valve switches, redux
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:54:12 -0700
  ...Bentley's tells us that when this happens >>>> the ECU will enrich the mixture (24.34). >>>> >>>> So taking your foot off the gas or...
• Re: GEX update (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Douglas
  Fri, 26 Jul 1996 22:44:19 -0700
  ...alltogether a bad mixture for this. > The pinging occurs when the mixture explodes rather than burns. It sounds > like a rather tinkly rattling under...
• Re: gas prices- a canadian perspective
  Historical mailing list - Marc Sayer
  Sun, 6 Mar 2005 21:29:10 -0800
  It takes about 25% more fuel to get the right mixture not twice as much. You will get about 5-10% fewer miles per...
• Re: My poor MPG, compression tests results
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:26:44 +0000
  ...compression > 120, plug indicates mixture is rich. > # 4 (left rear) compression > 120, plug also indicates richness. > > right left mixture asymmetry? > > -- > > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel...
• Re: Dometic fridge works out of the van, but not in it.
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:54:38 -0600
  It is a rich mixture,maybe the psi regulator allowing a bit too much? On Aug 1, 2011 2:38 PM, "Dave Mcneely" <mcneely4...
• Re: Help: Failed Smog Test
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:13:46 -0800
  Should be a simple twist of the mixture adjustment. Simple, that is, if you have a three gas analyzer. Find a smog shop, shouldn...
• afm adjustments
  Historical mailing list - Andy
  Thu, 3 Feb 2000 20:46:22 -0800
  Does any one have the best method to adjust the co mixture for a 2.0 litre air cooled. I notice by adjusting counter...
• FS: VAG-COM Software - Tiico Owners
  Historical mailing list - cz1137
  Wed, 29 May 2002 12:49:50 -0600
  Hi all, When I did my Tiico conversion I bought software that would allow me to set up the engine, adjust mixture and timing...
• New O2 sensor & catalytic converter $200
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Luft
  Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:38:59 -0400
  ...It could probably be done a tad cheaper if you hunt around and maybe buy a mixture of parts from list vendors and local...
• Re: advice on new propane tank
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:09:29 -0400
  ...You have to get a new tank past the point of containing an explosive mixture before you can use it or the first time...
• Re: O2 Sensor - lean/rich indicator
  Historical mailing list - Erik Soule
  Fri, 28 Jul 1995 15:44:19 -0700
  ...reaches 800...1000 mV with rich mixtures (lambda <1), but it is only about 100mV with lean mixtures (lambda >1). The transition from the...
• WESTFALIA REFRIGERATOR BURPING & OTHER IRRATIONAL FEARS!
  Historical mailing list - Robert A. Alexander
  Fri, 6 Nov 1998 23:21:18 -0500
  ...tempting to think of this neat mixture of ammonia/water/sodium chromate as being a homogeneous mixture, but he says even after sitting there...
• Re: Words to avoid, was: Apology for "Jap" comment
  Historical mailing list - Antaki
  Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:52:04 -0800
  Being of a mixture of Turkish, German, English, French and God know what else, I consider myself to be Euromutt. A Ron t a...
• Re: Coolant resistance thru coolant level probe
  Historical mailing list - Dave Baker
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 00:26:22 -0500
  ...and attempt the definitive > study of the resistance of various coolant mixtures and then see how > these values compare to the resistance needed to...
• Loss of power at altitude
  Historical mailing list - Aaron Reams
  Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:47:57 -0800
  ...If I were to guess, I would think this could be the oxygen sensor malfunctioning and thus the fuel mixture is not lean enough...
• Big Lungs
  Historical mailing list - Don Deitke
  Thu, 9 Oct 2003 08:44:21 EDT
  ...I hears ya have to purchase the fuel mixture from de chainstorejunkstore for $5.95 per gal. it comes with a lifetime warranty. It...
• Re: Freon Conversions
  Historical mailing list - tbill
  Tue, 08 Jul 1997 22:13:41 -0500
  ...Refrigerant leaks are normally very slow on air conditioning systems. > > These leaks are so slow that you won't build up an explosive mixture...
• My gas milage woes-resolved?(79 Westy)
  Historical mailing list
  14 Mar 96 18:21:00 +1800
  ...Finally this dawned on me, and I checked the mixture screw, and it was waaaay out, a real rich mixture. So I adjusted it...
• Running FI empty (long)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 8 Sep 1995 12:04:42 +1000 (EST)
  ...tank is under half full, fuel moved around and lets a mixture of fuel and air in to fuel pump (noise explained - pumps starts...
• Re: Tighten-up your AFM
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:39:01 -0500
  ...However the afm needs to be reasonably close or the ecu will not be able to compensate / correct the mixture. Also it is critical...
• Re: Start Idle Issue
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Michal
  Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:20:05 -0400
  ...Start Idle Issue Hi Jeff From my limited experience, I would say that the open loop mixture setting was incorrect. This setting is done...
• Re: New O2 Sensor and engine dies
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Sat, 27 Jun 1998 15:09:39 -0700
  ...The slug of air >going in leaned the mixture momentarily before the accelerator pump could >enrichen the mixture, so the engine would nearly stall...
• Re: Rich mixture/excessive fuel use
  Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
  Thu, 6 Jun 2002 13:36:48 -0400
  ...Rich mixture/excessive fuel use I am getting about 10-12 MPG on the Hwy with my '83 1.9L watercooled FI Vanagon, less...
• Re: hesitating when warm? - UPDATE
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 2 May 2003 08:31:27 -0700
  ...Then it uses the reading on that wire to adjust the fuel mixture. If at that point it sees a shorted wire it will...
• The van lives
  Historical mailing list - Colin Moran
  Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:27:47 -0800
  ...The rich mixture problem has disappeared. I think that one of the signals that the ECU and the idle stabilizer share was shorted to...
• Re: Update on piston problem (the death of a piston)
  Historical mailing list - Michael Townsend
  Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:58:05 -0400
  Whoaaaa, Didn't the shop use an emissions tester to verify that the mixture was proper? My mechanic did so after installing my new...
• Re: Getting 8 miles to the gallon
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:49:57 -0400
  ...Seems to run OK, just too rich a > mixture. > George > > ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit...
• Re: Coolant Overflowing
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:36:15 -0600
  What color smoke? Black = Over rich mixture Blue-white = oil likely leaking past rings into cylinders when engine sits White = possibly water/coolant getting...