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• CIS warm-up regulator
  Historical mailing list - John Y. Hung
  Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:30:28 -0500
  ...Does anyone know a simple way to test the warm-up regulator in the CIS system? Also, how does one test the CIS fuel...
• Re: Fuel pressure question (FI)
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Thu, 19 Jul 2001 07:38:23 -0500
  hi Again, The main reason I'm changing the regulator is to try to cure a hot idle surging problem. I have a digitool...
• Re: Frig on 12v
  Historical mailing list - Greg Irick
  Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:11:01 -0700
  For those of you that are having low output voltage from the voltage regulators, here is a link - http://bartonharness.com/AdjustableVoltage.html - that...
• Re: New fuel pump and filter - still noisy!
  Historical mailing list - David White
  Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:45:53 -0700
  ...The explanation for this buzzing is a faulty fuel pressure regulator, which is after the fuel pump and located on the top of the...
• O2 sensor premature failure.
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Mon, 7 May 2001 21:31:20 -0800
  ...After reading about the many O2 sensors, I feel it's time to look at the FUEL PRESSURE Regulator. If you can, verify that...
• Re: part numbers
  Historical mailing list - Harmon Seaver
  Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:30:06 -0500
  ...On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:59:57PM -0600, Bob Stevens wrote: > 1/Window crank mechanism (regulator) Driver's Side 80-91 Vanagon...
• Re: Fuel flow regulator
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 13 Jun 2021 11:09:23 -0500
  ...On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 11:00 AM Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote: > The center port on the fuel pressure regulator is...
• Gas Milage and the Fuel Pressure Regulator
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Thu, 10 May 2001 09:28:53 -0800
  ...I've ben watching the posts concerning fuel economy and those about Fuel pressure regulators that read a few pounds high. The regulator's...
• Left (Drivers) side Vanagon window regulator needed.
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Sat, 1 Jul 2017 15:01:20 +0000
  OK, I got fooled again and tried one of the new regulators on the left side this time. The piece of crap is pretty...
• Re: My van runs like crap when it's cold.
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:47:28 -0500
  At 10:02 PM 12/21/2010, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote... >The fp regulator isn't senstive to temperature ... > I havn't seen an...
• Re: More Propane Tanks
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Thu, 21 May 1998 08:16:55 -0700
  ...I think Euro-American RV bought out the remaining stock of the original regulator. -Mark McCulley
• Re: Is there any way... Voltage Drop!!!
  Historical mailing list - John Y. Hung
  Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:26:07 -0500
  Dear Vanagon listers, If memory serves me correctly, the instrument panel on the Vanagon has a voltage regulator on the back of it. I...
• Re: Adjustable rate fuel pressure regulator? anybody try one?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 16 May 2012 19:23:27 -0400
  ...because the manifold pressure has gone up (less vacuum), and the regulator is maintaining a constant pressure difference between the manifold and the fuel...
• leaking fuel pressure regulator?
  Historical mailing list - Ben S
  Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:32:39 -0800
  ...is it possible that the regulator itself could be leaking? has anyone ever seen or heard of this happening? considering that it's a...
• Re: Part number
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:00:57 -0800
  ...All of these are what's known as the "Button Housing" Voltage Regulator used on all Water Cooled Gas Vanagons and most Air Cooled...
• Re: Vanagon alternator too weak for Optimas.
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:27:37 -0400
  ...You need to cut a couple leads on<br> the back side of the internal Bosch regulator and solder<br> 1 wire on that...
• Re: Throttle Valve switch
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 1 Jun 2009 23:29:33 -0400
  If the switch is toasted most likely the connectors for the switch and the auxiliary air regulator were swapped. Easy check! Get your voltmeter...
• Re: Mystery part - what is this thing?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 23 Sep 2003 03:56:08 -0400
  ...see the following: > http://www.geocities.com/harald_nancy/dualbattery.htm That's not quite right, Loren -- the regulator is still required. The effect...
• What are symptoms of a bad auxillary air regulator
  Historical mailing list - roger sisler
  Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:03:12 -0700
  ...Could this be a bad fuel regulator? What are the symptoms of a bad fuel regulator? Seems to get a lack of fuel enrichment...
• ASI Water Woes
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Libby & Denise DeWolfe
  Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:14:00 -0500
  ...I attached the hose to the pressure regulator and turned on the water. Water squirted everywhere!, but alas no leak- the water was coming...
• Re: Propane Regulator
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:56:59 -0600
  ...when I turn the > propane tank > valve on, propane comes out of a tiny, rectangular hole just right > of the > center of the regulator...
• Re: Extend-A-Stay Propane Kit
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:01:53 -0400
  ...Edward At 10:38 AM 4/13/2008, Edward Maglott wrote: >The extend a stay adapter needs to go *before* the >regulator. Between the...
• Re: CYLINDER #'s and FIRING ORDER - Were getting there.
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:09:42 -0700
  ...The likely cause is a leak in the fuel pressure regulator diaphragm. The fuel pressure regulator connects to the intake system with a vacuum...
• Free Parts: Power window motor and voltage regulator
  Historical mailing list - JohnR
  Mon, 3 Apr 2000 08:27:49 -0500
  ...I also have the original voltage regulator from my instrument cluster which I changed out hoping to fix an inoperable tach/gas/temp gauge...
• Fuel Injection Pressure Regulator on '81 aircooled
  Historical mailing list - Michael S. Nichols
  Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:58:59 -0500
  ...I put key in ignition, turn to activate fuel pump, and I hear and can feel fuel going through the Pressure Regulator. I replaced...
• Re: Fridge topic
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 12 May 2000 23:41:25 -0400
  ...If the tank regulator was >involved, the result might be spectacular. This seems unlikely but it is Mark, the POL spud on the regulator...
• Re: Changing the propane regulator -#2
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Rotblatt
  Thu, 5 May 2011 08:47:16 -0700
  ...the regulator >> (tapered thread). >> I used 2 wrenches (just like you bend brake lines) to rebend the >> copper tubing as the new regulator is...
• I love it when a plan comes together
  Historical mailing list - Mark Mages
  Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:02:49 -0700
  ...Finally got the voltage regulator in (thanks Ken) and got it installed last night. Since I remembered to mark the relationship of the alt...
• Re: LPG Regulator Leaking?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:54:12 -0700
  ...Mark "Mike D." wrote: > > So, i purchased the new LPG Regulator from GoWesty to fix my leaking one. > > <http://www.gowesty.com/Merchant2/merchant...
• Re: Brake Pressure Regulator Reducer Valve PICS
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:27:54 -0700
  ...Some (all?) Bay buses use a similar regulator > to that of the early Vanagons. -- Neil n Blog: Vanagons, Westfalia, general <http://tubaneil.blogspot.ca...
• loud fuel pump
  Historical mailing list - J. Eric Pitman
  Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:27:13 -0400
  ...checked fuel pressure way to high, my pressure regulator took a shit and was letting the pump run at full speed all the time...
• How to Locate Propane Leak
  Historical mailing list - Royston, Jerry
  Fri, 25 May 2001 16:26:23 -0400
  ...Finally found the leak in the regulator after crawling under the van. A tiny crack or hole in the body of the regulator. Just...
• Re: westy propane regulator
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:44:33 -0800
  Thanks much to all who responded about the regulator! It looks like a Marshall 299 is what I need. The 299 is just like...
• Electric window regulator cable broke! Rebuild? Used Available?
  Historical mailing list - Todd Brown
  Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:47:45 -0700
  Happy Friday all, One of the two cables that raise/lower the glass in driver’s side power window regulator (pn 251.837.461...
• Re: Where to buy/order fuel pressure regulator
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:44:57 -0400
  ...Where to buy/order fuel pressure regulator According to much diagnosis on my mechanics part, I need a new fuel pressure regulator. He is...
• Re: Need window regulator
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 8 Aug 2006 18:40:51 -0500
  ...I can buy new regulators for about $126 + shipping, but the > part I need is about the size of my thumb and a used...
• Re: fuel pressure regulator failed?
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:51:53 -0700
  ...2 wbxs wrote: > Hi, > > Did you actually have a fuel pressure regulator fail? If so it's extremely > unusual. That's one part that...
• Re: LP tank service near San Francisco?
  Historical mailing list - Andy Highland
  Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:36:19 -0700
  ...The experience was less than "ideal". ; ) I had them replace the service valve and regulator. They basically used the wrong regulator. It works, but...
• Re: WANTED: fuel pressure regulator
  Historical mailing list - VW Doka
  Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:05:04 -0800
  ...fuel pressure regulator i have determined that the fuel pressure regulator on my '86 westy is leaking slightly from the folded-over flange seam...
• Re: alternator lifespan
  Historical mailing list - Roger VanTill
  Sun, 8 Feb 2009 07:21:31 -0500
  Where is a good place to pick up a spare brush package/regulator unit? Would a FLAPS have this? On 2/7/09, Scott...
• 84 Vanagon Westy - Fuel Pump Noise
  Historical mailing list - John Brown
  Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:53:51 -0700 (PDT)
  ...With the old pump it seems like it ran intermittently, like the pressure regulator was turning it on and off. Could this problem be...
• Re: Fw: Portable Buddy
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:18:21 -0500
  ...Buddy has a built in regulator and should not be attached to > > anything that already has a regulator. David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws...
• Re: LP gas regulator
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Sat, 7 Jul 2001 23:39:12 -0400
  ...if that doesn't work, goto www.rvpartsoutlet.com and LP regulators is under a pull down) The price isn't great, local I...
• Re: Let's fix our Dometic refigerators
  Historical mailing list - Wes Neuenschwander
  Sun, 23 May 1999 08:45:28 -8
  ...Does anyone know how I can measure > the pressure of my regulators? I have a Westy with the original regulator > that does not cool...
• Re: too much propane?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:27:19 -0800
  Ed, If your regulator frosts up it is defective. The bleed valve is supposed to be open when filling the tank. As soon as...
• Electrical problems are driving me mad!
  Historical mailing list - Eric Oster
  Thu, 20 Oct 1994 21:58:26 -0700 (PDT)
  ...2) Generator output is ~14 volts.(analog meter.) 3) Took a known good regulator, still didn't work. 4) generator/regulator are all remanufactured...
• Re: HELP! Oxy & Batt lights
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:19:42 EDT
  Ed, the alternator has probably died (or at least the voltage regulator has). Check the battery voltage with van off. Now start the van...
• Re: Fuel pressure regulator?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:28:44 -0500
  ...Fuel pressure regulator? Recalling some trips to the dyno with a P-car I remember my engine guy getting significant power increases using an...
• Re: Rocky Mountain Westy storage/Propex box install pictures
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:15:24 -0400
  There are NO CHANGES needed to the pressure regulator. The Propex models sold in the US market are jetted correctly for the US regulators...
• Re: LP gas regulator leak.
  Historical mailing list - Tom Salicos
  Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:11:07 -0700
  ...LP gas regulator leak. > Hi all, > > A quick question. I was out working on my 1983.5 Westy and I heard and > smelled propane...
• Re: Crummy Window Cranks!
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Mon, 4 Apr 2011 10:59:50 -0700
  ...Good ole fashioned preventive maintenance lubrication of the regulators on a periodic basis is a must and not just on a Vanagon. The same...
• Fuel Pressure regulator...
  Historical mailing list - Finn Runyon
  Sat, 29 Dec 2001 21:32:54 EST
  Dear List, Stranded in Annapolis! With the help of David Beierl , I have isolated my problem, a failed fuel pressure regulator. My new problem...
• OT jeep question
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:42:18 -0700
  The nylon regulator section of my daughters jeep has broken. Anyone know of a good jeep salvage source? Unfortunately as happens in vw world...
• Re: fill valve broken, not propane regulator valve
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:38:34 -0700
  ...propane regulator valve > > > Hi Volks, > > > > Went to Canadian Tire tonight to fill up the propane tank. I guess one of > > the regulator's seals...
• Re: Idle Control
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 14 Nov 2020 17:25:37 -0500
  ...That's the auxiliary air regulator. It contains a rotating-disk valve on a bimetal linkage that allows extra metered air to the engine...
• Re: Need New Propane Shut-off Valve
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:13:14 -0700
  ...The tank is under the slider and has a hose to the regulator mounted behind the tank up against the floor. I replaced the...
• Resolution of propane woes
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 27 Mar 2017 23:09:50 +0000
  I replace my old rectangular regulator on my Westy propane system with a newer "round" model. To catch you up, I have a failure...
• Propane Regulator: What's this hole?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Tue, 29 May 2012 07:57:22 -0700
  What is this small hole in the face of my propane regulator? I've stopped using the propane system until I can understand why...
• help on my electrical @#$%^!&
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 15 Oct 1995 16:44:01 -0400
  ...I replaced the regulator with this new looking shiny one that had german instructions on the side and the same connections. Now the regulator...
• Re: Aux Air Flow Regulator
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:39:56 -0400
  ...Aux Air Flow Regulator The auxilliary air regulator on my 1985 Vanagon GL appears to have bit the dust. I cannot detect any idle...