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• Re: Loud Bang
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:38:31 -0600
  ...It is destroying your AFM. When you're engine is just starting the flapper in your AFM is partially open when you backfire it...
• Re: Luftmassenmesser Umr�stsatz (LMU) ??
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:16:00 -0800
  ...Converting the variable-voltage output of a hot-wire AFM to the variable-resistance output the Bosch ECU expects is probably the easy part...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon - New Year's resolution - AFM
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:24:52 -0500
  ...Monday, December 17, 2007 3:29 PM Subject: [VANAGON] 1985 Vanagon - New Year's resolution - AFM It's time to finally fix my "hunting...
• Re: hiccups/hesitations-update-new AFM
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Wed, 3 Jan 2001 20:02:20 EST
  ...The new filter caused the AFM wiper to sit in a different position for your normal cruising speed compared to the old filter. Drive...
• Re: AFM cap fix, maybe fixed my very intermittent problem
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:19:26 -0400
  > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQwCxo9Mzho Says "Video Unavailable". Humph. d
• Re: Temp 2 sensor installation question.
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:02:45 -0700
  make sure that the AFM connector is fit and tight... add some dielectric grease will help..
• Re: hiccups/hesitations-update-new AFM
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:12:23 -0500
  How about this for a theory. The oil from the K&N filter lubricated the AFC....
• More Idle Problems
  Historical mailing list - Mike D.
  Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:37:30 -0800
  ...Has always had rough/loping idle Low oil pressure lite flickers on when warm (and rpms below 1000) Mechanic recommended AFM change, but not...
• Re: AFM test readings
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 4 Jul 2014 08:06:36 -0400
  ...Between the information from you, Karl, and Neil, this >>>> thread >>>> will be a wonderful resource in the archives for understanding the AFM >>>> better. >>>> >>>> Have...
• Re: Radio Shack electronic cleaner
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:52:58 -0400
  At 17:55 6/9/99 -0400, willw wrote: >Have any listmembers specifically used Radio Shack's electronic cleaner to >clean the AFM contacts...
• Re: Need ideas - diagnosing troubles.
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:08:43 -0500
  At 01:47 PM 1/16/2002, Blake Thornton wrote: >Any other suggestions? AFM? Ignition module? No throttle response to me sounds like AFM...
• HELP - No power to fuel pump - 87
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:58:45 -0400
  Hi, I'm aboiut ready to shoot my 87.....it died a couple of days before laborday weekend...thought the problem was the AFM...
• Re: Engine runs with no AFM?
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:23:11 -0500
  ...Engine runs with no AFM? > > I had an AFM fall off my '85 on the way home from the opening showing of > "LITTLE MISS...
• Test for AFM?
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Wed, 14 May 2003 10:26:24 -0400
  After replacing my AFM a few years back, the first thing I noticed was how I could now hold the engine rpm at whatever...
• Re: Need AFM adapter so different aircleaner or cold air intake can be used
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:31:50 -0800
  ...air > flow meter........ > it won't have an affect on the AFM's functioning. Good point. I have other reasons to want to get...
• Re: Why would it not accelerate?
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Wed, 7 Mar 2012 00:55:04 -0600
  ...I do have other >AFMs if that maybe the trouble, but I thought, I would rather ask >the List of Great Minds. > >AFM is...
• Mechanics report
  Historical mailing list - Susie Ingham
  Sun, 3 Apr 2011 20:20:42 -0400
  ...the AFM needed to be adjusted an exhaust leak at cylinder #4 ( loose bolt ) idle speed too slow and... the popular vote... the oxygen...
• 1980 AFM for 80 US model westy(Air Cooled)
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:32:32 -0700
  ...I think it's the AFM, any suggestions??? Gotta get me one of those remote start buttons, can't run fast enough to make...
• Re: how to bend afm sweeper arms?
  Historical mailing list - David Katsuki
  Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:14:50 -0500
  ...Payne wrote: >How does one bend the sweeper arms on the AFM without screwing them up? >Can I take the moving part out to...
• Trade Used '79 Air Flow Meter for '81-'83 (Air cooled)
  Historical mailing list - Andy Ellis
  Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:09:16 -0600
  ...Andy Ellis '83 Vanagon Leaky Gas Tank and Wrong AFM
• Re: Misleading Advertising
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:14:00 -0400
  ...a new AFM for ~$80. These putz's > list their AFM as new, when actually it is newly remanufactured. Crap like > this shouldn't...
• Re: CO adjust on AFM
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Fri, 6 Jul 2001 23:17:45 EDT
  Ken, Certainly more intellectually challenging that holding down the option key and pressing the number 4. Frank Grunthaner
• Need FI Help...HELP!
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:21:21 -0700
  ...the new AFM worked fine at first...i mean the symptoms did not coincide with the installation of the AFM exactly, but they did...
• hesitations/AFm vs. harness
  Historical mailing list - Paolo
  Mon, 25 Dec 2000 15:26:56 -0800
  Dec 25, 2000 3:21 PM PST Hello all, Well I'm not sure to replace the harness fix for the AFM or just...
• Re: hesitation from a stop and replacing afm
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:49:41 -0800
  Marc, mine is an 87 also and before I replaced the AFM it too hesitated badly when I first started out and had an...
• Re: O2 sensor stuff
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:18:36 -0600
  ...It runs better and the afm tuning is not as critical. I usually set the afm main spring tension for an open loop o2...
• Re: Update on stalling '87
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:31:14 -0700
  ...Check for air leak in the intake system, especially between the AFM and the actual intake manifold. My 83 and 84 will idle even...
• Re: 84 rough running,backfire
  Historical mailing list - Samuel L. Walters
  Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:44:10 -0400
  ...Also attached is a file about problems and solutions related to the AFM that sometimes plague these buses. If you go for cleaning up...
• Re: Who is Mike Miller???......
  Historical mailing list - Mick Kalber
  Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:41:40 -1000
  >Is a Mike Miller a troublesome part of the > AFM or somesuch.............. yes. mick hilo, hawaii ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Alcock <doug.alcock@HEWITT...
• Re: Replacement AFM technology
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:31:45 -0700
  ...Replacement AFM technology I wonder how much a non-deteriorating AFM replacement solution would be worth to van owners (I saw a re-manufactured...
• Re: The "Other" Vanagon Syndrome, Part II
  Historical mailing list - James V
  Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:59:54 -0700
  ...Why doesn't the van always stumble when the AFM crosses the "bad contact" point? I cruise control to work for 20 minutes and...
• Re: Wanted: AFM
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:50:58 -0700
  ...AFM > I've also wondered about doing this on my AFM. What do you do? Unlock the > screws then gently move the carbon tracks...
• Re: AFM resistance test
  Historical mailing list - boroko
  Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:38:14 -0500
  ...AFM resistance test > Been there, done that-- > I would strongly suggest that you remove the AFM ( not difficult ), clean it > up in some gas...
• Re: The "Other" Vanagon Syndrome, Part II
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:52:48 -0700
  ...The "Other" Vanagon Syndrome, Part II I am less experienced than many on the list when it comes to the AFM, but I am...
• AFM symptom? Won't Start After Being Off for +1 min.
  Historical mailing list - Conrad Klahn
  Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:11:25 -0600
  ...I disconnected the AFM and ECM (then waited and then plugged back in) and it did start up easily, but ran poorly. Then after...
• Re: Does anyone have a good used or rebuilt AFM for Air Cooled California Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 19 May 2016 16:05:49 -0700
  ...on a rebuilder? I advised him to try to tweak the AFMarm for now to get it on a different part of the track...
• Re: I was wrong -- how the AFM *really* responds...
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:44:29 -0700
  ...I was wrong -- how the AFM *really* responds... | |...to abrupt changes in throttle. This was done on an unloaded |engine, not on the road...
• AFM or OXS?
  Historical mailing list - Cam Murphy
  Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:53:49 +0100
  ...Is this most likely an AFM or O2 sensor, or something else? Unfortunately I do not have the tools (or the know-how) to...
• Wet right behind AFM
  Historical mailing list - Gregor Brandt
  Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:57:34 -0500
  ...I noticed that the air pipe right after the AFM was wet. It was a very dirty black colour with some chunks in it...
• Re: Engine runs with no AFM?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:36:20 -0800
  ...Engine runs with no AFM? I had an AFM fall off my '85 on the way home from the opening showing of "LITTLE MISS...
• Re: AIR FLOW METER
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 6 Mar 2010 08:14:33 -0500
  At 02:57 AM 3/6/2010, Arkady Mirvis wrote: >Yours is one describing the AFM eventual failure in simple terms. Thanks. I >never...
• Re: Low thermo reading=hesitation?
  Historical mailing list - E. Miskow
  Thu, 10 Dec 1998 03:12:26 EST
  ...I have changed out the temp sensors on the thermostat in the past year among other things to quell the hesitation for example, AFM...
• Re: #Engine in 1990 Vanagon 2.1L cutting out randomly
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Tue, 26 Oct 1999 06:30:42 EDT
  ...This sounds like classic symptoms of the dirty AFM signal. It is so prevalent VW has a $100 " Wiring Harness Modification" to cure it...
• Re: 87 2.1 dies after 30 seconds
  Historical mailing list - Jon VO
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:20:55 -0700
  Check connections at the AFM? Perhaps there is a problem? If one disconnects the AFM connector, I have seen similar symptoms. Although it does...
• Re: Need ideas for serious No-start condition, please
  Historical mailing list - Joe Romas
  Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:48:07 -0500
  If it happened all at once, check the rubber boot just after the afm for cracks, breaks or whatever. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall...
• Re: Baffled
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:08:33 -0800
  ...Then, I'd start to blame the AFM. There is actually a temp sensor in the AFM. You can check it out by measuring...
• Re: Engine Running Rich
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:13:25 -0700
  ...http://rubatoguy.home.mindspring.com/afm.html Mostly just shows it taken apart - but you can see the spring wheel. Todd John Rodgers wrote...
• Re: throttle flat spot
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:44:21 -0500
  What is often called "Vanagon Syndrome" (AFM wiper surface wear) applies to 1.9 and 2.1 engines. VW initially identified the problem as...
• Re: AFM adjustment; clockwise or anticlockwise?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:43:09 -0500
  ...If your running rich something else is wrong. > If its running right leave the AFM alone. > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto...
• Re: FS: New AFM for '86-91
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Tue, 9 Mar 1999 07:41:11 -0500
  ...Well that wasn't the problem and now I have a > brand new Bosch AFM for an 86-91. I can send it back...
• AFM ?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Nelson
  Tue, 2 Nov 1999 22:08:20 -0700
  ...I also read that the engine load is mainly determined by the AFM, i.e. how much air is being drawn in. How does...
• that ol' AFM, or Lufty's getting old
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:52:21 -0700
  ...That didn't work, What did work, again, doh, was spraying some "MG Chemical Contact Cleaner" on the old carbon track of the AFM...
• Re: 2.1 WBX Warm Start Troubles
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:37:19 -0800
  I would think the AFM is out of whack.... try o adjust it with a #5 allen key?
• Re: 060412 AFM question
  Historical mailing list - John Connolly, Aircooled.Net
  Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:05:51 -0600
  BTW guys, we RENT the LM-1s for people who want to tune but not buy one. John Aircooled.Net Inc.
• AFM and idle issue
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sat, 23 Sep 2023 09:05:40 -0400
  Hi Skip and others, Skip, any update on what happened when you tried your old AFM instead of the new GW one? Hope you...
• Re: throttle flat spot
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:19:57 -0500
  ...There are companies that rebuild AFMs but I've never looked inside one to see if that board was replaced. Several years ago, on...
• Re: AFM track cleaning wisdom
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:12:15 -0700
  ...The fix was an active circuit inserted into the AFM line > that limited maximum rate-of-change of the AFM signal. > > This tech note...
• Re: hesitations (air flow meter)
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Wed, 17 Feb 1999 07:58:42 -0600
  ...Checking the afm (air flow meter) wiper voltage reading is a better test than checking resistance per bentley. One of the analog voltages monitored...
• Re: AFM
  Historical mailing list - KBatzler
  Tue, 8 Dec 1998 05:09:50 -0800
  ...MSN.COM> Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 7:56 AM Subject: AFM >Hi, > >there was an old posting about bending the slider arm to...
• Re: AFM???
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:18:22 -0500
  > Exceuse my ignorance but what is the AFM and what does it do??? > > Air Flow Meter. It meters/measures the amount of air being...