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• Re: Idle Stabilization parts Costs Just dropped....
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:09:09 -0600
  ...I find I > > apparently will need an idle stabilizer valve and the idle stabilizer > > control box that goes in front of the right hand...
• Re: Weird electricals
  Historical mailing list - mike
  Tue, 4 May 1999 23:18:00 -0400
  ...I should also mention that last week I also had a problem with the idle stabilizer, but that problem seemed to right itself when...
• Digifant problem....closer to fixing
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:55:55 -0400
  ...Maybe the green wire to the idle stabilizer control unit has a short? Or maybe unit is bad? Troubleshooting advice would be helpful here...
• Re: Idle stabilizer
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Fri, 15 May 1998 22:22:57 -0500
  > OKay someone tell me how you know when this suckers gone south, I > think mine is breathing it's last breaths or something. Haynes...
• Re: 4000 RPM idle Please Help-FIXED
  Historical mailing list - Tim Belanger
  Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:09:44 EST
  I had the idle stabilizer replaced on Monday. It was not functioning right so had one ordered at a local mechanic for a couple...
• Re: Rough Idle on 84 Vanagon 1.9L - Help
  Historical mailing list - George Ciolfi
  Sun, 19 May 2002 12:11:29 EDT
  ...What problem would that cause, a vacuum leak? Timing was set after bypassing the idle stabilizer and setting the idle to 850. When you...
• Re: '83 and '86 vanagons can't complete smog test, please help!
  Historical mailing list - Bill Collins
  Fri, 5 Sep 2003 04:51:03 -0400
  ...If the idle speed isn't stable, you might have a problem with the idle stabilizer. (there's been lots of discussion on the...
• Power boost with the 251-907-393D Idle Stabilizer Control Unit
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:29:46 -0700
  I was doing some reading on the unit with the "D" and it includes a power boost when the A/C is on where...
• engine tuning, emissions, shudder at idle.Digifant.
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:14:24 EDT
  ...The ECU has been soldered and the connections to the idle stabilizer cleaned. For possible cures I am contemplating a new coil, idle stabilizer...
• Re: Having trouble getting a good idle when cold and the computer functioning
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:45:44 -0500
  ...Could this be the issue? Could it be the idle stazbilizer? I bypassed the stabilizer, and got a very bad idle. Hooked it back...
• Re: Help with Timing of Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:33:46 -0500
  ...unplug idle stabilizer connectors from idle stabilzer, and plug the connectors into each other; 2. use plug wire number one to drive your timing...
• Re: idle stabilizer: valve, control unit or both?
  Historical mailing list - Germain
  Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:37:44 -0400
  ...idle stabilizer: valve, control unit or both? I am experiencing the ever so common high idle problem on my '89 Carat. Don't hear...
• Re: vanagon being weird/second try
  Historical mailing list - Dane Tessler
  Mon, 23 Mar 1998 02:46:01 -0800
  ...I asked him to swap out his Idle Stabilizer unit with mine to see what happens. That did it. It ran perfectly at all...
• Re: Digijet Timing Marks
  Historical mailing list - Paul Borghese
  Tue, 1 May 2001 10:26:07 -0400
  ...I did not disconnect the > vacuum lines when setting the timing and had the idle stabilizer by-passed > as the Bentley shows. > I also...
• Re: 1.9L-still will not idle cold
  Historical mailing list - Tracy Bonin
  Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:11:36 -0800
  ...I went to change my idle stabilizer, noticed that I didn't even have one, installed the new one, and problems are all gone...
• Re: Voltage stabilizer installation?
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:22:13 -0400
  Re, gauge cluster: >> Can anyone help me out with some installation instructions? << What Zoltan said, except I would add that you exercise extreme caution...
• Re: Last gasp: low compression exhaust valve can't pass smog
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:15:26 -0700
  ...Karl Wolz | |The spec sticker on my 85 Adventurwagon Ca model says '850 + or minus 50 |rpm, Idle Stabilizer Disconnected' |so I would think...
• Re: peanut butter storage in Campers
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 6 Jul 95 19:33:42 EDT
  If peanut butter has the same chemical stabilizers as a McDonald's milkshake, then you are ok. Go ahead and eat it. I left...
• Re: 87 wolfsburg parts for sale
  Historical mailing list - Michael Harrnacker
  Mon, 3 Aug 1998 09:40:05 -0700
  OK, how about the idle stabilizer control unit and the idle control valve? or do you want to send these out with the whole...
• 84 vanagon DOES NOT idle up and down
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Hosick
  Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:51:36 -0800
  Hey guy's Thanks for the advice with my 84' GL.After a new temp II sensor.Trying to bypass my idle stabilizer,cleaning...
• Re: Well, it's over. (Prices)
  Historical mailing list - Brad Spear
  Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:14:47 EST
  ...I can't find that receipt.) The trans, instrument cluster, and stabilizer link all came from the same Syncro that was, or maybe still...
• Re: idle stabilizer
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:39:47 +0000
  ...Driver > > Mike Stainbrook wrote: > > trying to remove connections from the idle stabilizer,squeeze to release,I > > can't get them to release. so,before...
• Re: 1.9L-still no cold idle-looking for ideas-long
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Thu, 6 Mar 2003 00:58:38 -0500
  ...Putting a new idle control stabilizer worked, so I gave up trying to look for other sources of the problem. Though, I suspect there...
• Re: Idle stabilizer control unit
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 18 Jul 1998 02:30:56 EDT
  ...The first one, a voltage stabilizer transistor was definitely fried. I found (from my 88 Vanagon module) a company logo: SGS in tall narrow...
• Re: Spare Fuel Pump Saves the Day
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 5 Apr 2013 23:26:20 -0700
  ...Don't you think your > missing > the obvious, what about gasoline stabilizer? Cheap, available at any > FLAPS, > safe! Works for me when I store...
• Re: '85 Ignition Control Unit
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:03:41 -0400
  ...It's screwed onto the left firewall just forward (aft?) of the idle stabilizer module. Yours, David
• ignition? injection?
  Historical mailing list - Deborah Walters
  Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:54:36 -0500
  ...This afternoon I checked the resistance on the coil, and the cable from coil to distributor, and the voltage on the Idle stabilizer control...
• Re: idle stabilizer: valve, control unit or both?
  Historical mailing list - Chad Morris
  Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:00:03 -0600
  ...idle stabilizer: valve, control unit or both? > Chad, > > At 12:10 AM 9/11/2003, Chad Morris wrote: > >I did not realize the Idle...
• Re: Idle Surge
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:25:55 -0500
  ...TB - throttle body TPS - throttle position switch PO - previous owner POV - previously owned vanagon (vehicle) ISV - idle stabilizer valve ISC - Idle stabilizer control (box...
• Idle stablilizer system testing
  Historical mailing list - John
  Thu, 18 Jan 2001 04:34:57 -0500
  ...The idle stabilizer system can be checked easily when you know the nominal test values. The attachment lists values taken from two known "healthy...
• Idle Stabilizer Valve - Later UPDATE: problem *NOT* solved!
  Historical mailing list - Tabe Johnson
  Wed, 24 May 2006 12:58:28 -0400
  ...Idle Stabilizer Valve - Later UPDATE: problem *NOT* solved! Well, Pablo, things didn't quite turn out like I thought. While my test drive yesterday...
• Re: Troubleshooting the Basic Idle Stabilizer System - Manual Transmissions- Part I
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:31:07 -0500
  ...Troubleshooting the Basic Idle Stabilizer System - Manual > Transmissions- Part I > > >> This is long, but for the record and the archives, so please bear >> with...
• Re: Old Gas?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:21:59 -0700
  ...But you can add fuel stabilizer to the tank now, it will help some. ( of course fuel won't be circulating through the fuel...
• Replacing the grommet, sleeve, washer and nut
  Historical mailing list - Bryan Feddish
  Fri, 10 May 2013 12:13:29 -0400
  ...I’m going to replace that grommet that fell off the link stabilizer. I’m not near the van at the moment. Will those...
• Re: Idle stabilizer
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:34:37 -0500
  At 02:12 AM 1/10/2002, Blake Thornton wrote: >Ok, so what is the job of the ignition module? Why does it need...
• idle surges
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn
  Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:44:54 -0800
  ...I suspect the idle stabilizer, but since it is an item that costs more than can$200 new and can$125 used, I want...
• WTB Needed Front suspension Part for early 85 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:28:36 -0400
  ...it is called the stabilizer Link on page 40.2 of the bentley manual. Mine snaped at the threaded pin side due to rust...
• Re: Help with Timing of Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:07:55 -0600
  ...unplug idle stabilizer connectors from idle stabilzer, and plug the connectors into each other; 2. use plug wire number one to drive your timing...
• Re: Moral qestion--Now diagnostics
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:30:37 -0500
  Have you tried (engine off) removing the plugs from the idle stabilizer and plugging them together then starting the engine and adjusting the idle...
• Re: getting link bushings out
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:52:42 -0700
  ...trying to get out the old bushings where the stabilizer bar attaches > to the stabilizer links. Any quit and dirty tricks? > > When I get...
• timing marks
  Historical mailing list - George Averill
  Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:59:58 -0400
  ...Also seems to time better without disconnecting the idle stabilizer. Sometimes the ear is better than the machine. Anyway, that's my two cents...
• Anyone with an 86-up running vanagon in Charleston, SC?
  Historical mailing list - Mountaineer
  Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:47:23 -0500
  ...I would like to swap the idle stabilizer relay from your van into this one just to see if it will run........I would...
• Re: Advice on Spare 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 6 May 2010 16:09:37 -0700
  gonna be hard to get an idle stabilizer or ign control unit on a 2.1.. they're incorporated into the ecu. but yeah...
• Re: '83 overheating
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:43:19 PDT
  ...I replaced > the voltage stabilizer and all seemed well. The temp guage read from > 2/3 to 3/4, rising only with very extended...
• Re: More idle questions (no pun intended)...
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:42:55 -0500
  ...Whether the idle stabilizer is bypassed or not, the engine runs the same. > > When the engine is only 'luke warm', it idles erratically, but...
• Re: Mark D? Someone with a scope?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:41:09 -0400
  At 08:46 PM 8/21/2012, Dennis Haynes wrote: >The idle speed stabilizer shares some of the ECU inputs such as temp 2...
• Re: New member's starting problem
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 1 Dec 94 14:20:11 EST
  ...First problem was solved by checking out the idle stabilizer and replacing it; second time the ignition and engine needed to properly grounded AND...
• 1985 Vanagon - setting initial timing, idle speed and mixture
  Historical mailing list - AAG - Larry Word
  Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:52:11 -0400
  ...this for myself?" Do I disconnect (1) 2 plugs from idle stabilizer; (2) single connector above it? My engines "gallops" at idle, my tailpipe...
• Re: How to disconnect idle stablizer??
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:37:25 -0400
  ...there is a microswitch on the bottom of the throttle body that must close a circuit for the idle stabilizer to operate. Verify that...
• Re: Purpose of "Voltage Stabilizer" in Instrument cluster?
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:01:14 -0400
  ...Purpose of "Voltage Stabilizer" in Instrument cluster? In a message dated 07/07/2008 7:40:41 A.M. Central Standard Time, mbucchino@charter...
• Re: 1988 Vanagon GL tintop
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 14 Feb 2016 21:07:26 -0500
  ...Without the idle stabilizer get it to run and idle 700-900 rpm. Connect the O2 sensor and test it for proper operation. Then...
• Re: Idle Control Whatzit
  Historical mailing list - Michael aka ECHO
  Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:03:55 -0700
  ...Step one > for the CA emissions is to disconnect the idle control > stabilizer and plug the leads into each other. I look high > and...
• Re: van fix part deux: intermittant hesitation
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:23:35 -0700
  ...Ignition timing and advance controls, including idle stabilizer. (Sorry, I missed earlier posts and have no time to go hunting - is this an 83...
• Re: hall unit needed for 81 California Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Warren Lail
  Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:57:54 -0600
  ...My friend called it the hall unit, but I just looked in Bentley and it is the idle stabilizer unit (mounts to the 'firewall...
• Re: Odometer fixed..and "how dumb am I? (gas guage)
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:57:55 -0800
  The fuel and temp gauges use the output of the 10 volt regulator, also called the dash voltage stabilizer. That is what powers them...
• Re: Fuel Gauge
  Historical mailing list - Joe Wagner
  Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:24:09 -0400
  ...I have replaced > sending unit, gauge and voltage regulator/stabilizer. Any further > suggestions? > > DDF >
• High idle digifant??
  Historical mailing list - Rob Wright
  Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:10:36 -0500
  ...Is it suppose too? if I pinch the hose on the idle stabilizer the idle drops down. Any Ideas? TIA Rob 87 westy
• Re: '87 idle stabilizer part compatibility?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:12:02 EST
  Philip, yes the D number is just a revision of the eariler B number. You can use it with no problem. You can't...
• Re: idle stablizer/its only another part (Good Info Here!)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Steven Fish
  Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:26:51 +0100
  ...He also says that you can test both idle stabilizer systems by simply starting the engine. If the idle stabilizer system is working, the...
• Re: '83 overheating
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 Jul 1996 14:26:37 -0400
  ...Moore) writes: > The only work I've done since the voltage stabilizer is to replace the alternator. This alternator change can't necessarily be...