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• Re: Digifant ECU: Corrosion? And.... Rosin or Heat Damage? PICS
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:24:17 -0400
  ...Bosch ECU's and sloppy (my term) solder work. Not sloppy. They cheaped out on their alloy (I think) for the wave soldering process...
• Re: Woody's digitool / digijet running rich
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Fri, 24 Dec 1999 07:50:26 -0600
  ...Coil led indicates the coil is being pulsed by the distributor and ignition module digijet and by the distributor ecu on vanagon digifant. Fi...
• digijet tool update
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:40:05 -0500
  ...pin for pin with all 25 pins of the digijet ECU. Like the digifant tool the digijet tool requires the installation of a flat...
• Re: Gas Milage and the Fuel Pressure Regulator
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Thu, 10 May 2001 18:44:24 -0800
  ...on the Digifant system: The information I received from Darrel Boehler was that that extra fuel enrichment is added by the ECU when the...
• Re: Digijet Tool?
  Historical mailing list - Carl Turner
  Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:26:48 EST
  ...type > connector enabling one to observe all 25 pins of the ecu. Hope this sheds > some light on the digitool if you have anymore...
• Re: Test equipment
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:25:21 -0400
  > I considered the Digifant tool mentioned on the WWW, but the ECU's I'm coming > across are sealed as a condition of warranty...
• Wet weather power loss
  Historical mailing list - Helen Fahy
  Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:32:50 -0400
  ...Ring out the O2 lead<Bentley 24.62 ECU connector pins 2+13 >, 2. check the throttle sensor<Bentley 24.62 ECU connector pins...
• Re: mixture adjustment without gas analyzer
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Mon, 3 Aug 1998 00:33:31 -0500
  ...providing the digifant with voltage / mixture signal in about 2 minutes when starting a cold engine. At this point the ECU will control the...
• Re: dumb fuel injection question
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:37:52 -0700
  ...Digijet and Digifant injection are not that sophisticated. the ecu fires all four injectors like on big 4-part injector. 'The only' variable is...
• V'gon upper respiratory difficulties
  Historical mailing list - Woody Halsey
  Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:24:42 EST
  I have read with sympathy recent posts about hiccoughing and hestitating in the Digijet and Digifant systems. Those who were on the list a...
• Re: Considering I4 swap: 1.8 89 Golf vs. 1.8 VW Fox (90?)
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:35:46 -0700
  ...ignition system if necessary etc) 1.8L Digifant II motor with FI / Wiring Harness - with mods / ECU / water pipes for our conversion or a...
• Re: Isolating an idle problem?
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:55:30 -1000
  ...t recall Digifant on the 8V >> inline engine having that as a separate part. I think it's part of the >> ECU. >> >> Neil. >> >> On...
• Tinkering with the Digifant Fuel Injection to make it better...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:46:42 EDT
  ...Distributor cap and rotor, plugs, wires, O2 sensor, temp II sensor, air flow meter, ECU, weak coil, idle control module, fuel pressure regulator, etc...
• Re: digijet tool need help
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Sat, 18 Jul 1998 16:30:41 -0500
  ...digijet tool need help >---------------------- > I need to know what voltage the digijet ecu 83.5-85 supplies to the >idle and full throttle switches...
• Re: Fuel Injector (or wiring) Question: Deceleration, Fuel Shutoff Mode
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:34:37 -0700
  ...The ecu supplies ground to all of them at once....holding them all open for however many milliseconds the ECU determines is correct given...
• Re: A New Perspective on Vanagon Syndrome
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sun, 8 Feb 2009 10:28:50 -0800
  ...ECU is designed to use that value, but it gets messy when you try to apply it to an ECU like the Digifant, which...
• Re: 1.9 ECU replacement
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 5 Feb 2017 06:40:47 -0800
  ...The inline digifant VW motor's seem to have interchangeable computers. I got a spare about 5yrs ago for $30 used, never had to...
• Re: Your early Morning/digifant/digitool brain teaser
  Historical mailing list - Marshall
  Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:20:25 -0500
  ...Your early Morning/digifant/digitool brain teaser Ok, here are the facts. Yesterday got the 88 running (turned out to be shielding on O2...
• Digifant FI System Pro Training Manual PDF
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:22:38 -0500
  ...Even has a drawing of the fuel map that the ECU uses for it's operation. Any ideas where to give this thing a...
• Re: Digitool Installed, totally Excellent!
  Historical mailing list - Charles \"Luke\" Lukey
  Sun, 16 May 1999 08:02:50 -0700
  ...Now, since the cable gets connected to the ecu (soldered right onto the ecu's board), the voltages are really very useful for extensive...
• Digifant dashboard analysis tool you are making
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Fri, 26 Jun 1998 07:37:05 -0400
  ...my spare ECU >and >>>>have you do that part too? >>>Yes I would do the digifant ECU and the perfboard digifant tool for you...
• Re: 2.1 VS 1.9 AFM
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:16:49 -0700
  no debating that digijet and digifant are significantly different. and I'm very familiar with running a 2.1 on digijet etc. however...looking...
• Re: Computer woes?
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:56:09 -0400
  ...A perfect time to plug that I still have the '87 Digifant set for sale, that includes the ISV, control, ECU, dizzy, injectors, fuel...
• Re: Engine died, ecu quick look
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:16:03 -0600
  ...to as Vanagon Syn' is, I believe, unique to Digifant & so I label that Digifant Syn') ~ In almost all occurrences of it the Van...
• Re: Help! Hesitation on the road!
  Historical mailing list - David Vickery
  Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:46:01 -0700
  ...This resonance causes the > air-flow > meter to supply an intermittent signal to the Digifant ECU. > The ECU > will then default to a "no...
• Solution for Re: Vanagon Syndrome
  Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
  Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:54:06 -0800
  ...so European makes, I have replaced one Bosch ECU and several Triuph-Adler Digifant/jet ECU's. Their rates of failure are two completely...
• Re: F.I. and Pertronix Ignition?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:22:49 -0700
  ...this is digijet or digifant in you Vanagon. Both of these systems work fine from the factory. The ECU wants to control when the...
• Re: Tuning question--long, sorry!
  Historical mailing list - Jim Henry
  Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:58:23 -0500
  ...Who will spearhead the effort to redesign the Digifant ECU? > > > > Why work from scratch when all the heavy lifting has been > done already? > Build...
• Re: Digitool
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:23:56 -0500
  ...This will mean adding an extra short wire to the cable attached to the digijet ECU and eliminating the wire to ECU pin 1...
• Re: Wire gauge for the shielded wire for the O2 signal?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:23:29 -0700
  ...Since the signal is such a small electrical amount, I was thinking the actual wire size might make a difference in what the ecu...
• Re: Fwd: Re: ECU Testing
  Historical mailing list - John Goubeaux
  Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:26:34 -0700
  ...the Digifant ignition components work together. -john On 7/12/2015 11:31 AM, John Rodgers wrote: > I have the Shoebox ECU monitor. I...
• Re: O2 Sensor Wire
  Historical mailing list - Matt Sutton
  Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:46:33 -0500
  Hey Chuck, I have a 88GL with a Digifant, but I have a feeling we may have the same trouble. I was crippled by...
• Fwd: 87 Volkswagen Vanagon, Poor-idle/Hesitation
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Foltz
  Wed, 10 Jun 1998 06:50:24 EDT
  ...I have noticed that the ECU is getting REAL HOT after about 30 minutes of operation. I do suspect the ECU due that it...
• Re: Latest news on No Spark
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:11:18 -0500
  Or I've also heard that the wires from the ECU where they pass through the van body to get to the engine bay...
• Re: More rant on grounds and vanagon syndrome
  Historical mailing list - Madsen, Ken
  Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:09:23 -0600
  ...Do you think it possible to agressively attack the grounding issues by installing direct ground wiring from the ECU to the engine, and from...
• Re: 81 aircooled won't start when cold
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:56:42 -0500
  ...The 2.1L 86-91 (digifant) does not. I don't no about The 83-85 Digijet? Craig Oda wrote: >Does the vanagon waterboxer...
• Re: hesitation
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
  Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:29:56 -0800
  The Aux wire upgrade is only for Digifant fuel injection which I think started in 1986. I would look at your AFM. It could...
• Re: ECU firmware location
  Historical mailing list - tinker man
  Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:56:13 +0200
  ...design, but does > > > anybody know if the firmware for our ECU's (Digifant or Digijet) > > > resides completely on the 2732 EPROM or is part...
• TbyT '98 brief report
  Historical mailing list - Karl Bloss
  Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:10:03 +0000
  ...Darrell, you got a spare Digifant ECU with the tool hooked up? We had a couple of hiccups along the trip that would have...
• Re: 2.1 VS 1.9 AFM
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:59:41 -0700
  ...1.9 Digijet and 2.1 Digifant sysrtems are the typical apple and orange, oil and water, etc. If your 1.9 system in...
• Re: The end of the road (86 westy runnin' rich) - LONG STORY
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
  Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:25:05 -0400
  ...I was elated! It was the damn ECU terminal 19 ground not doing its job to provide proper oxygen sensor readings to the ECU...
• Re: Engine Rebuild Advice Please
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:39:37 -0800
  ...cat, and Digijet, not digifant, fuel injection. .....it uses an ecu different than our stock US model digiget ecu's though. But I am...
• next question...Re: Is ECU involved in getting power to fuel pump when turning ignition switch on?
  Historical mailing list - most david
  Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:46:05 -0700
  ...Is ECU involved in getting power to fuel pump when turning ignition switch on? No http://www.loam.org/vw/Vanagon/VanagonProTraining/DigiFant/ (page...
• Re: '84 rough running, backfire
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:11:42 EDT
  Please note that if standard, the '84 uses digijet injection system, not digifant, thus it does not have an AFM. I had problems with...
• Re: Who is Mike Miller???......
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:33:15 -0700
  ...uninitiated???? I thought I'd > gotten > comfortable with the list jargon --- ECU, Digifant, Digijet, Digiwife ---- and > now I am bemused by this new term...
• Re: IDLE STABILIZER ???
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:23:29 -0700
  ...Since the Digifant is basically a Bosch Motronic FI, the engine ignition timing is all controlled through the ECU -- the distributor is very simple...
• =?utf-8?Q?Re=3A_Are_all_2.1_engines_digifant=3F?=
  Historical mailing list - Mike Holm Toronto
  Mon, 5 May 2014 05:57:47 -0400
  ...Are all 2.1 engines digifant? Could you please provide the link to where you DownLoaded the 1000+Page Bentley from ~ I have a...
• Re: Fuel Pump Relay/Fuse
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 27 Jan 2018 14:47:17 -0800
  ...There should be an image in Bentley Digifant section showing which of the 2 relays is the fuel pump relay. That section should also...
• Re: Troubleshooting Question
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Tue, 14 Oct 1997 21:14:23 -0700
  ...This resonance causes the air-flow meter to supply an intermittent signal to the Digifant ECU. The ECU will then default to a "no...
• 88 digifant O2 readings off
  Historical mailing list - Matt Sutton
  Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:33:20 -0400
  ...I know the 02 sensor's doing it's job, but am worried about leaning too hard on the Cat and ECU to compensate...
• Re: The end of the road (86 westy runnin' rich) - LONG STORY
  Historical mailing list - kevin obrien
  Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:53:40 -0700
  ...I was > > elated! > > > > It was the damn ECU terminal 19 ground not doing > its job to provide proper > > oxygen sensor readings to the ECU...
• Simple and obvious
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:25:06 -0800
  ...Disconnect the coolant temp sensor , the one to the ecu, to get a preview of what may happen to you someday. The wiring is...
• Re: digifant upgrade available in england
  Historical mailing list - Robyn Rudisill
  Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:18:06 -0500
  ...GTi Digifants (same unit as in our Vanagons) with a conversion called &quot;FilmStar&quot; consisting of an interface to the ECU, translator chip...
• Re: [VW gas I4 Conversions] weird engine behavior, stops on downhill coasting, diagnostic help?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 15 Sep 2018 20:06:57 -0700
  ...Swapped in one I found in the box with me spare ECU that I have had 'forever '. Drove a hundred miles with a few...
• Re: Fw: '87 ECU or ? correction
  Historical mailing list - David Bayer
  Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:28:05 -0700
  ...But it does tell you the digifant is pulsing the coil and the coil >| >has battery supplied to the plus side. Another thng the...
• High altitude power loss
  Historical mailing list - Tim Wise
  Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:01:49 -0500
  ...Seems like the ECU got out of wack and restarting it caused it to reset and function correctly. Does anybody know what might be...
• Re: IT IS MY name and IF you want it BUY IT FROM ME!!!! or Else....
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:20:41 +1200
  ...a variety of fonts and models that suit both the Digifant and Digijet >ECU's. All >"e"'s are shipped >via IPS (Imaginary Parcel...
• Re: Starter solenoid powered by fuel pump circuit....arrrrgg...long...help!!!
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:51:00 -0500
  Dunno if it helps any - but my Digifant Service Manual shows both the ECU and the Idle Stabilizer Unit connected to pin 50 on...
• Re: Idle stabilizer control unit
  Historical mailing list - Yi-Ruey Wei
  Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:59:07 -0500
  I remember I had several recalls on ECU and Idle Control Module for my 87 Syncro. Whenever you have a bad ECU or ICM...
• Parts! In Seattle
  Historical mailing list - Cunegonde
  Sun, 18 Jun 2017 22:49:59 -0700
  ...1 beige plush captain's chair Bosch Digifant ECU from a '91 2.1l Complete Digifant injection system (less injectors themselves) from airfilter to...