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• Re: "enough" vs "too much" monitoring, was: permanent fuel pressure gauge
  Historical mailing list - Al Brase
  Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:45:48 -0500
  ...The only practical use of such a thing is to set the mixture at idle. It would be pretty diffficult to put one's...
• '86 idle revisited - Darrell Boehler
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Sat, 19 Apr 1997 22:01:03 -0700 (PDT)
  ...A very rich mixture should read HIGH, and a lean mixture LOW. For example, before I adjusted my air flow meter, the ohm meter...
• 84 Westy Hydaulic Lifter problem
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 16 Feb 1997 10:18:53 -0500
  ...One mechanic suggested that a mixture of transmission oil and regular oil run in the motor for a short period would refill the lifters...
• Re: Air Dam Paint
  Historical mailing list - Erik C Peterson
  Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:51:13 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Include a plasticizer (flex agent) in your paint mixture. This will help with rock chips. Also allow the paint to cure for at least...
• Re: gutted catalyctic
  Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter
  Tue, 4 Apr 2000 21:25:22 -0400
  ...Will leaning the mixture > screw cure this? I thought the ecu did this automatically through readings > from the co exhaust sensor. Any advice other...
• Re: stripped screw holes for the upper bed:
  Historical mailing list - Clark, Patrick
  Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:26:31 -0700
  ...fill 'em up completely with the epoxy mixture) and cured-- you can drill out the hole in a slightly smaller diameter than the screw...
• Re: Oxs lite stays on.............
  Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
  Sun, 27 Oct 2002 15:37:43 -0800
  ...oxy failure and damage therefrom), the oxy should be replaced and mixture reset, then the button on the gear box is pushed to reset...
• Re: Boston Bob? or GoWesty?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:24:02 -0500
  ...and points ignition, and it has a carburator with a manual mixture control. But the case and heads are unmistakably a VW aircooled. -- David...
• Re: Vanagon running rough
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:11:33 -0800
  ...Another thing that affects the mixture is a vacuum leak or other problem that results in air getting into the mixture after it passes...
• Re: Form Jay Leno's Garage
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:05:51 -0700
  ...You probably could get close results, simply by diligently replacing your coolant mixture on a regular, short-term schedule. It would be cool if...
• Re: 82 Failed CA Smog Test- help!
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:17:21 -0400
  Just wondering if anyone has a feeling for where the mixture screw is set from the factory. How many turns out from fully closed...
• Re: Heh -- I'm such a ninnyhammer
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:31:55 -0400
  ...Since the voltage is not going up as it normally would with the O2 sensor working properly, you are going into mixture run away...
• Running Hot
  Historical mailing list - Justin B. Jensen
  Fri, 3 Apr 1998 06:57:14 -0700
  ...A lean air to fuel mixture will cause heating as will a leaking head gasket allowing combustion gasses into the cooling jacket. It is...
• High CO2 emissions
  Historical mailing list - James T.
  Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:24:55 +0000
  ...Also, the critter idles high at 1600-1700 RPM - no matter what you do with idle or mixture screws - it goes right back to...
• Re: Air Conditioning help
  Historical mailing list - Keith Hughes
  Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:31:43 -0800
  A problem with any such mixture is not just leakage, but preferential leakage of the smaller molecular weight component. So the mixture changes as...
• Re: Fryeday - Bio-Diesel Exhaust/Emissions
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:32:18 -0500
  ...Soot is a product of burning diesel fuel at too low a temperature or with too rich a mixture, so that the conversion from...
• Re: I'm giving up!
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:29:00 -0700
  ...THEN it uses the OX sensor signal to adjust the fuel mixture for best ratio. If the signal it sees is screwy it will...
• Re: Vanagon engine fire or mishap in Roanoke, Va
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:02:16 -0500
  ...it used to (and it might -- it's more of a >mixture of heavy and light components than when I was young) you can...
• Re: FWD: Fuel Prob
  Historical mailing list - Gaelen Gallashant
  Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:10:35 -0300
  ...It will change your fuel mixture if it is not working properly. Gaelen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- At 01:27 PM 8/12/98 EDT, The Buslady wrote...
• Re: Electric Supercharger
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:11:25 -0400
  ...You will shorten the life of your already overtaxed engine, not to mention that getting the fuel/air mixture right will now be a...
• Re: Timing solution
  Historical mailing list - Craig Rogers
  Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:26:22 -0400
  ...You should readjust your idle mixture after all this. Sincerely, Craig Rogers ----- Original Message ----- From: Javier Zavala To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Sent: Thursday...
• Re: alternative carburetion of FI 2.0 Liter vanagon engine???
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Wed, 7 Sep 2005 18:00:42 -0700
  ...The ones that are left are sold by the snake oil companies(in other words they don't work) Without the proper mixture you...
• Re: watch out ..bit of a rant - about coolant etc.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 22 May 2012 13:17:57 -0700
  ...well........I can not say there are really right about the 50/50 mixture only .. yes, that is a 'safe' mixture , especially for a...
• Re: Heat gauge
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:27:18 -0600
  ...Typically for best power the fuel air mixture would be adjusted by the pilot until the engine ran at peak temperature ---he would lean...
• Re: A Homemade Waxoyl Experiment.........
  Historical mailing list - Jay Brown
  Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:44:13 -0500
  ...Add additional turpentine in small amounts until the mixture reaches a nice brushable consistency at room temperature. The resulting mixture should have a considerably...
• Re: What symptoms from leaking AFM boot?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Fri, 18 Apr 2003 17:47:07 -0700
  ...unmetered air and a general leaning out of the fuel/air mixture. Most likely symptoms would be hard starting, particularly when cold, and higher...
• Re: 84 dont smoke no more (27 MPG??)
  Historical mailing list - Tony Moore
  Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:00:11 -0400
  ...Over > >that voltage indicates a rich mixture and the ECU decreases the fuel flow. > >Under > >0.5 volts indicates a weak mixture and the...
• Re: Failed emissions for third time-Some helpful hints.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:19:26 -0400
  ...The AFM mixture screw is only effective near idle and if any long term change is made to mixture then something is really too...
• Re: AC Question-reponse error
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:28:30 -0400
  ...R-134a is not a mixture but a single chemical (1,1,1,2-tetrafluoro ethane) and being a single component and not a...
• Re: Cold Start Valve
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 12 May 1996 20:21:19
  ...the sensor is bad, or by richening the fuel mixture (which is what happens when you ground out the sensor) you compensated for a...
• Re: Temp Indicator On Dash rises to max: 84 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:31:53 -0700
  ...The wrong mixture (usually too much antifreeze) will not pass enough current, and this will be seen as a low-level indication, blinking the...
• Re: Still won't start when warm
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:28:41 EST
  ...Now my question is what else, besides the brain, controls the mixture? Any other ideas? Ken Nelson >> Ken, You may want to look into...
• Re: emissions inspection failed on 83
  Historical mailing list - Bill Collins
  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:59:41 -0500
  ...Idle mixture should be set to produce around 1% CO BEFORE the cat (check the Bentley for the exact number) A bad temperature sensor...
• Re: Tyres and nitrogen
  Historical mailing list - Scott Norville
  Sun, 27 Apr 2003 02:12:12 -0400
  ...Air, as shipped from the factory (unless you have NOS air from Germany it come from Taiwan or Brasil now) is a mixture of...
• Re: Calculate fuel consumption when idling?
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:27:09 -0800
  ...the ECU > works to keep the O2 sensor happy, which means that the mixture is close > to stoichiometric, meaning roughly 1:15 fuel to...
• Re: Not passing smog, still... Need help!
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:55:29 -0400
  ...Anything below the .3 mixture is unacceptable. If the spring tension is giving good mixture at all other driving condition with the EXCEPTION of...
• Re: Digifant, barometers, and the AFM
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:45:18 -0800
  ...air-fuel mixture at high altitudes. "The low density of the air at high altitudes necessitates a leaner air-fuel mixture. At high altitudes...
• Re: Is there anyone under 60 on this list???? WAS:Wife is done with Vanagon a...
  Historical mailing list - Stuart Fedak
  Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:32:03 -0400
  ...Any way you look at it, it is a great mixture of inter generational knowledge and sharing of experience. Sometimes it is the "young...
• (Fwd) Temperature Adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Bobby "Butch" Stokes
  Wed, 20 Dec 1995 08:49:08 CDT
  ...I had to dilute the antifreeze in the system - that the mixture was probably too pure - hence the reason the temperature guage now stays...
• Re: diesel cooling woes revisited
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 19 Jan 1997 09:36:29 PST
  ...Then check the protection offered by the mixture in your vehicle. You should be able to figure out how much you need to drain...
• Re: O2 sensor question
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 6 Jun 1997 00:21:07 -0700
  > The o2 sensor is the thing that automatically leans the mixture when you > drive at high altitude, right? Or am I thinking of something...
• Re: 85 Uneven idle again
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Sat, 9 Dec 2000 06:54:51 -0800
  ...Diesels do not need these because they do not operate on the basis of maintaining a fuel/air mixture ratio. They have a mechanical...
• Re: Tough driving(thin air)
  Historical mailing list - Bob Nugent
  Sun, 1 Jul 2001 20:03:20 EDT
  ...And while the Digifant is a fiendishly clever system which, I'm sure, does adjust the mixture properly for altitude, it can't make...
• Re: Computer Temp. Sending Unit
  Historical mailing list - westydriver
  Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:42:20 -0600
  ...that means they control fuel mixture. I am in the middle of a project of extracting an engine out of a 91 jetta which...
• Re: Not passing smog, still... Need help!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:19:07 -0400
  ...Anything below the .3 mixture is unacceptable. If the spring tension is giving good mixture at all other driving condition with the EXCEPTION of...
• Re: Freeze Plugs was Oops - I let the engine freeze
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Fri, 4 Feb 2011 20:36:43 -0600
  ...Freeze Plugs was Oops - I let the engine freeze ---- Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote: > never had the problem myself. > 50-50 mixture...
• Re: Heh -- I'm such a ninnyhammer
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 4 Aug 2008 09:02:48 -0400
  ...The idle mixture adjustment on the 1.9 AFM is critical to avoid the idle hunt syndrome. Opening the AFM to play with the...
• Re: Cut you spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:36:52 EST
  ...This increases the efficiency of the engine, increasing power because more of the gas/air mixture is burned. Thus less pedal is required to...
• flywheel pilot bearing will not fit!
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:08:33 -0500
  ...I'm helping a friend put in a new clutch in his 1.9L / 2.L mixture. The engine and crank are 1.9L...
• Re: Not passing smog, still... Need help!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:39:54 -0400
  ...Anything below the .3 mixture is unacceptable. If the spring tension is giving good mixture at all other driving condition with the EXCEPTION of...
• Re: Help Educate Me
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:58:07 -0500
  ...It's too close to an on/off signal to be directly useful for adjusting mixture, so the ECU biases it to half a...
• Re: The dreaded AFM adjustment screw
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:16:42 -0800
  ...This blocks the air flow nicely. > > > > I adjusted the AFM mixture screw and the idle ajdust on the throttle body > > with the above-mentioned...
• Re: Question about temp II sensor and bad running
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:28:14 -0700
  ...The ECU uses the reading from the O2 sensor to know whether to lean or richen the mixture. If one cylinder has a problem...
• Re: water injection
  Historical mailing list - Harvey Chao
  18 Jul 1995 09:27:27 -0700
  ...The water mist cools the incoming charge and effective "raises" the octane of the mixture to reduce or delay ping. It also cleans carbon...
• Re: Lanolinl for rust proofing
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:44:07 -0800
  ...found one source stating that the much venerated "Cosmolene" >> was a mixture of petroleum jelly and lanolin. > Didn't you ever use Bag Balm...
• Re: AC compressor Gurus needed!!!
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:58:34 -0500
  ...after filling one of your tires with a compressed > > gasoline/air mixture? > > Sounds like a bomb to me? > > > > ===== > TJ Hannink > Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper...
• Re: O2 sensor thread size? Helicoil kit part number?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:28:43 -0500
  ...converter, and won't get a proper reading from the exhaust mixture. The old stripped out 02 thread section of the converter will have...
• Re: Running rough, dies as temp gauge starts to register
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:43:22 -0800
  ...variable > resistor is the primary source for information on air/fuel mixture for > the engine. > > I had a similar issue recently and after a...
• Re: $89 Stainless Steel 2.1L Connecting Pipes - and OEM German 1.9L mufflers (not stainless)
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Sat, 1 Sep 2001 17:23:47 -0700
  ...In order to set the initial fuel/air mixture it is necessary to measure upstream of the cat. Testing to meet state established standards...
• Re: CO Adjusting Screw. PO Set it All The Way In? Base Setting?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:35:21 -0700
  ...On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans < scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > > personally I would not expect AFM mixture screw...