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• Re: DPO's cablemania
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:03:59 -0500
  On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Mark Hineline <hineline@ocotillofield.net> wrote: > Is that like a choke cable? > > > On Nov 15...
• Re: TEST - IGNORE PLEASE
  Historical mailing list - Bill Johnson
  Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:11:33 -0600
  ...They can choke it down very fast. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gina" <GG811@SENTRYMICRO.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000...
• ammeter question
  Historical mailing list - David Etter
  Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:56:24 -0600
  ...to operate the ammeter it would perhaps act much like a choke in a normal electrical circuit. Any field offers resistance to current flow...
• Re: Built-in Fire Extinguishers
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:27:21 -0400
  ...Maybe with one of those long choke cables you can get at the FLAPS to trigger it from the driver's seat? Betcha could.
• '73 Westy twin Solex rebuild
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 5 Feb 1996 08:51:36 -0700
  ...These choke elements are left and right and push in opposite directions so a choke element from the left carb won't work on...
• Fuel Problem?
  Historical mailing list - Peter Wilson
  Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:14:32 -0700
  ...At the bottom of the hill I could get it to start and idle but if I give it any gas it would choke...
• Re: Substitute for aircooled thermostat
  Historical mailing list - Mark L. Hineline
  Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:30:09 -0800
  ...It might not be quite as responsive as the proposed electrical device. > > How about an old-fashioned "choke cable" from under > the driver seat...
• Re: Humidity and storage
  Historical mailing list - Pascal Giasson
  Wed, 1 Dec 2004 07:57:39 -0500
  ...Thanks Pascal '84 Westy >"I'd run the engine until it got to full operating temps and then choke it >down by running MMO...
• Your all Nuts !!
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:33:22 -0500
  ...The list gets a kinky posting from God knows who,and the entire day is choked with BS from the list members discussing the...
• Re: SALTWATER FUEL-wood burning vehicles of ww2
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:25:46 -0500
  ...Mike Courtney Hook wrote: > Anyone seen the woodburning vehicles that the germans came up with in WW2? > They basically choked down a woodfire until...
• Re: NVC hillbillies
  Historical mailing list - Lee Kirstein
  Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:28:14 -0500
  ...was behind one of > those leviathans recently carrying a single> drool-choked> hillbilly fresh > off of his sister with the sticker in the rear...
• Re: Valve adjustment; Preliminary results.
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:03:45 -0400
  ...As long as Stan gets his alloy wheels sold at a starting bid of $400 *CHOKE*, we'll all breathe easier.. he-he.. ;-) Chris...
• Re: Luggage Rack Noise on 84 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Gary Shea
  Thu, 3 Jun 1999 12:02:05 -0600
  ...Reminds of the winter of maybe '82 or '83, cross-country in a '67 Mustang, so cold the automatic choke kept closing at highway...
• Query about knob on '60
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 12 May 1996 22:09:11 -0700
  out enough about it to drive it but there's two knobs to pull like chokes on either side of a twist knob below...
• Re: Carb conversions?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Rouby
  Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:31:37 -0700
  ...Can we say backfire, raw fuel in cylinders, black smoke? Choke pull off/Heater! Moist after market either do not have chokes, or the...
• More carb troubles
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 28 Oct 1994 12:50:03 EDT
  ...I thought initially that it may be the choke, but it seems to be operating OK. Mabye (being mexican) it is built for warmer...
• Re: DIESEL starting and other general questions
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:03:41 -0700
  ...I use The Knob for as short as possible to get good power, then it goes off. > Everywhere I read anything about the "choke...
• Re: Can I replace a Solex 28 PICT with 30 PICT 2?
  Historical mailing list - Joseph J Helwig
  Sun, 9 Jun 1996 09:54:42 -0600
  ...As a result, I >have no choke. I can't seem to locate a replacement element which will fit >this carb. I tried tracking...
• Which carbs.?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Dec 1995 01:44:15 -0500
  ...compression Is there a simple way to check for a stuck choke? Thanks again to everyone who has helped us! Will & Angela '77 Bus
• Re: The F**d muffler debacle
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:02:41 -0800
  May y'all choke to death on your own smog.... Larry Carter wrote: > <snip>.... I told him to gut the cat and weld a...
• Re: if people are trying to reach me today
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:55:46 -0800 (PST)
  ...Wow! Thats some chili! Thom -- > He who chokes the chicken will lay no chicks. Thom Fitzpatrick thom@calweb.com - http://www.calweb.com/~thom...
• Extra oil burning
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 16 Apr 94 19:25:24 EDT
  ...Add 1 quart and ignore the flicker at tolls or add 2 quarts and choke. What's up here? ron
• Re: rear heater valve
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:36:06 -0400
  I was thinking the same thing, and went so far as to buy a long choke-cable type thing, like you have on your...
• Subject: Re: 1966 Split Bus - What Carb ?
  Historical mailing list - McGinnis Terry
  1 Jul 1996 13:24:29 -0800
  ...It had an automatic choke though!" Well my first VW, a 1966 Panel in Germany in 1973, had a factory stock 12V electrical system...
• Re: mileage
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:44:23 -0800
  ...Fuel injection systems have no carburators and thus, no automatic choke. One cause of the hunting idle can be a sticking throttle switch. The...
• Re: Fuel Problem?
  Historical mailing list - PSavage
  Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:37:58 -0700
  ...At the bottom > of the hill I could get it to start and idle but if I give it any gas it > would choke...
• Re: Cultural Diversity
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:58:30 -0500
  ...Lessee -- Aluminum as aluminium Duralumin as Duraluminium (?) Trunk as boot Wheel as roadwheel Sidewalk as pavement Curb as kerb Choke as strangler Vacuum as...
• Re: Owner's Manual for '73 Westphalia?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 7 Jul 94 11:05:20 PDT
  ...Is this some sort of heater/fresh air control? At first I thought it >might be a manual choke, but the van has an...
• Re: short trip, Klanawa watershed
  Historical mailing list - turbowesty
  Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:14:30 -0400
  ...some would say abuse :) I probably would not explore as many alder choked spurs if I had a nice paint job on the van.
• Re: Weber DFVA 32/36 not Working Well...
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Mon, 2 Nov 1998 00:19:17 -0500
  ...It > hesistates/chokes when you give it some gas and has no top end power. > He's using a mechanical Bosch distributor (009). The...
• Re: DIESEL starting and other general questions
  Historical mailing list - Joel
  Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:19:38 -0800
  ...I've never used the choke/knob > until the last few days because the car started and ran without it, no > matter what the...
• Re: Query about knob on '60
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 May 1996 17:08:45 -0400
  out enough about it to drive it but there's two knobs to pull like chokes on either side of a twist knob below...
• Re: Substitute for aircooled thermostat
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:59:07 -0500
  ...How about an old-fashioned "choke cable" from under the driver seat to move the flaps? Do they even make choke cables anymore? I...
• Re: SALTWATER FUEL-wood burning vehicles of ww2
  Historical mailing list - whaslup
  Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:57:44 -0500
  Courtney Hook wrote: > Anyone seen the woodburning vehicles that the germans came up with in WW2? > They basically choked down a woodfire until it...
• Re: Vanagon idle hunting --FIX
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Tue, 19 Apr 94 8:29:11 PDT
  ...like an old electric choke. the bentley test (as i remember) is > 'if it hummms/vibrates, it's working'. ? That's an interesting test...
• While were talking mixture
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:17:35 -0700
  I know when the Digifant system is in the warm-up cycle that, just like the carb models with chokes, enrichment is going on...
• Re: vanagon fuel tank/problems it can cause?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:35:31 EDT
  ...Here in the US we have Fuel Injection even in the earliest models so there is no Choke and if the system is right...
• Re: Last Post
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 12 Jul 1996 01:00:31 -0500
  ...WILLIAM.WARBURTON/OU=TRITEC@DSW.GOVT.NZ TAFENSW/ISPO021/SJUNOR@MSMAIL.TAFENSW.EDU.AU The server chokes on them, maybe because they have slashes...
• Re: temp sensor
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:56:30 -0700
  ...That will do the same thing as pulling the choke all the way out on a warm carburated engine. Instant wet spark plugs. Jim...
• Re: Runs great--for a minute or two ??
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:19:57 -0500
  ...Mmm...2...minutes, choke/cold start related... Any smoke in the back before it stall!!! Fuel pressure/connection ok???? Cheers, Ben http://www.benplace...
• Re: DPO's cablemania
  Historical mailing list - Mark Hineline
  Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:06:15 -0800
  ...PM, Mark Hineline > <hineline@ocotillofield.net> wrote: >> Is that like a choke cable? >> >> >> On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Michael Snow wrote...
• 1.9l Wasserboxer stumble...
  Historical mailing list - Christian Iversen
  Sun, 13 Feb 2000 23:14:21 +0100
  ...The engine is carb'ed, and it has an xtremely annoing off idle stumble - Noticable when cold (under choke) and irritating when hot! I...
• 86 Vanagon Digifant stalling!
  Historical mailing list - Maurizio Penna
  Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:24:02 -0700
  ...With a carburated vehicle it would be a matter of adjusting the choke, is there an equivalent setting on the digifant fuel injection ? Maurizio...
• 1982 Diesel Engine starts slow after fluid changes...
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Tanner
  Wed, 6 May 2009 22:00:55 -0400
  ...I follow the usual pre-glow/choke procedure that always worked fine before when starting. Anyone have a clue what's up? How to...
• Re: warm up time - a contrarian's view! (longish)
  Historical mailing list - YauMan Chan
  Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:01:57 -0800
  ...In the old days of either manual chokes or auto-chokes with mechanical springs, the air/fuel mixture control is very coarse and imprecise...
• Re: My toughest Vanagon problem yet finally solved!
  Historical mailing list - Alan Bosch
  Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:15:09 -0600
  ...us neophites to follow a clear path to greatness and enlightenment. <Choke!! Barf!! Spitooey!! Blech!!> Anyway, what I ment to say was this: Thank...
• fuel filter 85gl
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:54:02 -0800
  ...and heard a pop from the back, almost as if it choked, but it came back after letting up on the gas a bit...
• Re: Carb conversions?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:14:46 -0400
  ...Can we say backfire, raw fuel in cylinders, black smoke? Choke pull off/Heater! Moist after market either do not have chokes, or the...
• Re: '56 Progress - front (mount)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 Nov 1995 14:43:36 +0500
  ...to do is to get someone to drive your bus (auuughh... choke. choke. -- gulp!) while you're in the middle and press your palm...
• Vanagon choking when feeding gas
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Jul 94 16:28:47 PDT
  ...The problem is that whenever I take it to gas stations to feed, it chokes right there. I have always seen people pull trigger...
• Weber carb (was Re: Tuning Problems)
  Historical mailing list - Brian Wilson
  Thu, 07 Apr 1994 11:27:10 -0700
  ...That should work fine. > The carb has no choke. It was torn out to make a race vehicle. Do I > need it? Can I...
• Re: Need replacement Vanagon antenna
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 4 Jun 2023 17:10:45 -0700
  ...Except when you dint pull it down before going thru alder choked trails. I’m on my third now , grr Ab > On Jun 4...
• Re: LVC - Anyone in the Santa Cruz area?
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:37:21 -0800
  A VERY Deep Breath - Just don't let the smog choke ya ;-) 3rd Generation Native Californian -- Jim Thompson Ventura, CA 84 Westfalia 2.1...
• Re: Compression Test on Aircooled 1600
  Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
  Sat, 4 Dec 1999 06:59:01 -0800
  ...Throttle and choke baffles held wide open. I count at least 8 revolutions for each measure. The same number for each cylinder. T.P...
• Re: Rich Running Chilly 1.9l WBX
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 4 Jun 2010 18:22:32 -0700
  ...like he says to disable the automatic choke. I think that's silly. The electric automatic choke on VW Bugs and similar engines is...
• Re: removing brake drums
  Historical mailing list - Armstrong, Charles L.
  Fri, 15 Jul 94 16:58:00 cdt
  ...little as a couple of weeks) should block the wheels with chokes or bricks or whatever and leave the parking brake off. This may...
• Re: [Syncro] rescue a SyncroSUNROOF from the crusher, RESCUED!!!??
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:46:13 -0800
  ...I about choked on >> my beer. 411/412 models indeed. >> >> Mark >> >>
• Re: 4000 RPM idle Please Help
  Historical mailing list - Lee Peterson
  Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:06:41 -0700
  ...and now it runs like a carberated car with no choke. I hope to be able to afford an Idle stab after the holodays...
• Re: Engine temperature non-problem
  Historical mailing list - Mike White
  Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:37:06 MST
  > Gas mileage continued to suck, though, even after I finally installed > an electric choke and adjusted the idle jets to run a lot leaner...
• Re: Toyota Hiace luxury diesel vans cheap
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:29:52 +1300
  ...US? Don't make me choke. -- Andrew Grebneff 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW...