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  • Re: O2 Sensor voltage
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:50:22 -0500
    ...I didn't try to correlate injector timing with lambda sensor readings, too much snow dropping down my neck! >and upper volt output of...
  • re: lambadas??
    Historical mailing list
    14 Sep 95 12:20:00 PDT
    ...If you are refering to the "lambda" unit, sometimes called the oxygen sensor, one can test the sensor while installed on the car, but...
  • Re: I'm stumped! (misfire)
    Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
    Sat, 23 May 1998 14:14:05 -0500
    ...on many non vws and the lambda sensor is more often referred to as an ego sensor (exhaust gas oxygen) or hego (heated exhaust...
  • Re: 86 digifant running rich
    Historical mailing list - M.R. Nimmo
    Thu, 3 Jun 1999 06:32:31 -0700
    ...With the > O2 sensor plugged in > your going to get this wild swinging reading from > .2-.8V, which is not going > to allow you...
  • Re: Help Educate Me
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:58:07 -0500
    ...The O2 or lambda sensor is actually a tiny chemical battery which produces a voltage if there is oxygen on one side of its...
  • Re: '85 GL won't start
    Historical mailing list - SStones
    Mon, 14 Jul 1997 19:27:06 -0400
    ...it were igniting the engine would be running) and the lambda switch (O2 sensor) would be leaning out the mixture which would have started...
  • Re: [Syncro] Wiring for CIS-E F.I. in Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - David Marshall
    Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:26:00 -0800
    What is an "idle up" valve? Looking over a CIS-E system (O2 box, no knock sensor box that the GTI/GLI/16V has...
  • Re: Injector color question
    Historical mailing list - Chris S
    Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:06:05 -0400
    Let me add that my DJ code WBX has an additional lambda ECU and the engine did not originally come with an O2 sensor...
  • Re: need 1.9l digijet FI website/info
    Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
    Tue, 29 May 2001 13:19:51 EDT
    ...Your Temp II sensor may be shot if the engine runs okay once it is warmed up. Next, how old is your O2 sensor...
  • Re: ECU and lean idle
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:16:14 -0400
    ...you have a problem with one cylinder not firing well, the lambda sensor will see the oxygen being passed through from that cylinder and...
  • Re: Where do I stick this?
    Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:31:14 -0400
    ...This HJS ECU had its own wiring harness, >> its >> own sensors to include the famous Lambda, or oxygen sensor. This HJS ECU >> talked to...
  • 84 Pulsing idle UPDATE 2, zu hohe Leerlaufdrehzahl
    Historical mailing list - Marcus Schaper
    Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:44:40 EDT
    ...So I guess O2 sensor is OK. > >- check the coolant temp sensor Coolant temp sensor: 3KOhms when cold, 300 Ohms when warm. So I...
  • Re: Fuel pressure regulator - acceptable pressure readings?
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:37:21 -0400
    ...My California-spec '84 was delivered that way in Germany and didn't get its CAT and lambda sensor until it arrived in the...
  • Re: FilmStar for 86-91 Digifant VW Transporter?
    Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
    Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:56:31 -0400
    ...Any ideas? > >Also, the air mass sensor we provide has a 70mm diameter, so we'd need to >know if your existing air flap...
  • Re: Am I Crazy, Sane or Dreaming? re: Surging
    Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
    Tue, 19 May 1998 23:15:27 -0700
    ...Yeah, that's the lambda sensor... > I also thought I'd > disconnect the two leads running into the idle stab (square mounted on > drivers...
  • Oil fill plug stripped
    Historical mailing list - Tim Smith
    Wed, 30 May 2001 09:07:40 -0300
    ...HTH, thanks for 1.9l FI help, so far a dead temp sensor, a corroded but intact looking ground strap and ground wires/bolts...
  • Re: 2.1 VS 1.9 AFM
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:23:46 -0400
    ...though I imagine it would be within the range that the lambda sensor could compensate for. >if anyone would like to comment on the...
  • Re: Catalytic Converter???? Anyone go without it???
    Historical mailing list - Chris S.
    Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:55:45 -0400
    ...These were fitted with an additional lambda ECU that piggy-backed onto the Digijet system. Chris. Wysłane z iPhone'a Dnia Mar 18, 2012...
  • Re: Catalytic Converter???? Anyone go without it???
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:02:53 -0700
    ...These were fitted with an additional lambda ECU that piggy-backed onto the Digijet system. > > Chris. > > Wysłane z iPhone'a > > Dnia Mar 18, 2012...
  • Re: Oil fill plug stripped
    Historical mailing list - andrewbell
    Wed, 30 May 2001 07:57:31 -0500
    ...thanks for 1.9l FI help, so far a dead temp sensor, a corroded > but intact looking ground strap and ground wires/bolts have...
  • EGR Purpose in Life
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 8 Mar 1996 06:06:08 -0500
    ...The heart of this system is the "Oxyge= n Sensor". Some late model cars use multiple sensors to provide even mor= e control. =0D...
  • Intermittent Ignition miss, no start,or rich running, need help!, LONG
    Historical mailing list - Ezra Hall
    Thu, 7 Oct 1999 00:09:06 -0400
    ...The engine was running, so I disconnected the Lambda sensor to minimize air/fuel ratio variations to the cylinders that were firing ok when...
  • Re: Intermittent Ignition miss, no start,or rich running, need help!, LONG
    Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
    Thu, 7 Oct 1999 08:31:03 -0500
    ...The engine was running, so I disconnected > the Lambda sensor to minimize air/fuel ratio variations to the cylinders > that were firing ok when...
  • Re: My Digifant Opinion
    Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
    Sun, 26 Apr 1998 22:44:14 -0700
    ...Early versions were very basic, later versions (most Vanagons up through 1985) had lambda sensors as well. The DigifantII was never used on Vanagons...
  • Re: Fuel ponderings
    Historical mailing list - John Bange
    Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:03:27 -0800
    ...The Bosch L-Jetronic system with lambda (O2) sensor pretty much nails that 14.7 air-fuel ratio. Congress legislating that it be so...
  • Re: IMO: engine Converting = Ignorance of what is out there...
    Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
    Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:37:57 EDT
    ...the tuning part where they drive down the road with a lambda sensor in the pipe and hook up the laptop and adjust settings...
  • Re: diesel-gas conversion problems solved! (mostly)
    Historical mailing list - Open Wheel Racing
    Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:21:27 -0600
    ...Also you will need to know if the fuel system has a "Lambda" ( 02 sensor) system or not, and match all the parts to...
  • Re: David Marshal. Why did this mod increase my fuel economy?
    Historical mailing list - David Marshall
    Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:07:50 -0800
    ...That is what a lambda ECU would hold it at if you had a O2 sensor >in your fuel injection system. Who knows what...
  • Re: Intermittent Ignition miss, no start,or rich running, need help!,LONG
    Historical mailing list - Bulley
    Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:57:26 -0400
    ...The engine was running, so I disconnected the Lambda sensor to minimize air/fuel ratio variations to the cylinders that were firing ok when...
  • Re: Digijet rough/wandering idle and bucking at slower speeds
    Historical mailing list - Skip
    Fri, 27 Sep 2013 02:44:57 +0000
    ...I do have wandering idle issues, which I presume is related to vacuum leaks or lambda (O2 sensor) weakness or what else (AFM?)? O2...
  • Re: Analyzer question
    Historical mailing list - Steve Blackham
    Wed, 23 May 2001 23:17:38 -0600
    ...They have taken a similar technology to a lambda sensor and just fitted it with a metered read out. I have seen better dwell...
  • excerpt from Electronic Design
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 6 Sep 1996 17:07:31 -0700
    ...fancy electronic fuel injection and spark computers and diagnostic >computers and Lambda sensors. But I get 31 mpg and the car goes just as...
  • Re: "Increase the HP, up to 45%(or more),in your Wasserboxer" CD-ROM
    Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
    Wed, 20 Oct 1999 12:18:19 -0700
    ...It ain't cheap, but imagine riding around town with a lambda sensor clipped to your tail pipe, and you and an assistant with...
  • Inline Exhaust Theory: part I
    Historical mailing list - Erik O
    Tue, 19 May 1998 12:59:43 -0400
    ...It is generally recognized that Volkswagen had a decent manifold but they 'improved the design' to accommodate the Lambda Sensor and screwed up the...
  • Re: diesel-gas conversion problems solved! (mostly)
    Historical mailing list - EMZ
    Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:57:21 -0500
    ...Also you will need to know if the fuel system has a "Lambda" ( > 02 sensor) system or not, and match all the parts to...