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• Re: DEAR GOD Re: timing belt
  Historical mailing list - Simon Reinhardt
  Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:04:43 -0600
  ...3-wire ISV for Digifant, but any CIS-E injection-equipped Golf, Jetta, Scirocco, Audi... and my Van... should have a 3-wire ISV...
• Re: Fast Forward's "undercover" TDI project for the Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:53:13 -0500
  ...so that would give a total drop of like 3.5"? the tdi set up must be much shorter than my digifant II golf...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:27:19 -0700
  ...a strainer as you >> would >> be led to believe by that Digifant Book. VW 133 133 511. This was used >> as >> the ONLY filter...
• Re: More Fuel Pump Weirdness - Has Mercury gone retrograde again?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:04:05 -0700
  ...It's Digifant, just like the Jetta/Golf/Rabbit 1.8liter gas motor uses. If your motor is from a digifant car, it should...
• Re: Temp II Sensor, Engine Hot.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:30:36 -0700
  My digifant manual doesn't say anything about Temp Sensor II having no affect after engine is fully up to temp. I have never...
• Re: Need AFM adapter so different aircleaner or cold air intake can be used
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:14:24 -0800
  ...I suspect > one problem is the Digifant AFM was plastic welded onto a stock Golf > airbox. > The welding job was not exactly the greatest...
• FS: 1990 Volkswagen GL Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Wolfsburg
  Mon, 3 Aug 1998 10:56:47 -0700
  For Sale: (Posting for a fellow VW owner) 1990 Volkswagen Vanagon GL, 2.1 digifant engine, 150,900 miles. Burgundy with large gray and...
• FS: 1990 Volkswagen Vanagon GL
  Historical mailing list - Wolfsburg
  Sat, 8 Aug 1998 14:00:11 -0700
  For Sale: (Posting for a fellow VW owner) 1990 Volkswagen Vanagon GL, 2.1 digifant engine, 150,900 miles. Burgundy with large gray and...
• FS: 1990 Volkswagen GL Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Wolfsburg
  Sat, 22 Aug 1998 19:16:56 -0700
  For Sale: (Posting for a fellow VW owner) 1990 Volkswagen Vanagon GL, 2.1 digifant engine, 150,900 miles. Burgundy with large gray and...
• Re: Fuel cutoff was:Wankels
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:09:39 -0700
  Darrell Boehler wrote: > ---------------------- > The digifant system turns off the injectors if the engine is above 1.5k rpm > and the throttle switch is in...
• Re: Capacitor fix - what year?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:26:12 -0500
  ...bulletin (was there a recall? I think so) applies only to Digifant, but the Digijet seem to suffer as well. I don't know...
• Re: Eurospec problem
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 13 Oct 1999 21:57:57 -0700
  There should be two replays for your Digifant II setup. Early systems had one relay controlling the ECU and Injectors and a seperate one...
• Re: The details of Motronic (long)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:25:48 -0700
  Thanks for your questions on how Motronic differs from Digifant.. The answers here are given by our team of qualified technicians who are standing...
• Re: [Syncro] Help! Igintion Won't shut off!
  Historical mailing list - Dave Bayer
  Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:50:50 -0700
  ...Basicly for the engine to keep running, you need to be getting both current to the digifant control unit and to the coil. Both...
• Digijet Digitool Info
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:43:28 -0600
  ...I have looked at Darrel's site for the instructions, however his plans are for the Digifant ECUs. If you have built the digitool...
• Re: Stopped in Moro... fuel?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:06:17 -0700
  ...Riding along in the rain, 84 Digifant vanagon with an ABA inline gas motor, started missing. Key cycling has no "reset"...all gauges normal...
• Re: Looking for a good used Air flow meter 1.9
  Historical mailing list - pdooley
  Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:00:57 -0400
  ...I'm not sure if those meters are the same as the 2.1 digifants. If they do interchange, then I have 5 or...
• Troubleshooting the Basic Idle Stabilizer System - Part II
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:38:54 -0500
  Vanagon/Type II Fuel Systems - Digifant TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDELINES Idle Stabilization - Checking Automatic Tansmission ___ Connect VW 1315/2 and US 1119 to idle stabilizer vlve...
• Re: Tapping sound
  Historical mailing list - gregory
  Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:14:08 -0700
  ...after leaving my 89 2.1 digifant vanagon sitting for a few days i heard a knocking sound on startup. right away i shut...
• Re: backfiring..
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:38:19 -0400
  I don't know if the '83 aircooled had the same setup, but on our Digifant, the throttle switch was maladjusted. One of the...
• Re: Syncro: What is the oil breather heater for?
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Thu, 11 May 2000 02:14:17 +0200
  ...On the other hand, my Syncro has Digijet injection, opposed to the Digifant in your Syncro. PerL 87 Syncro 112i John-Reed Maffeo wrote...
• Re: duel fuel westy, LPG/propane or gasoline
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 8 Aug 2000 07:46:02 -0700
  ...Its a duel fuel system so the original digifant is still in place > > and functional. You just flip an electrical switch on the dash...
• gasoline odor
  Historical mailing list - Ron Komoroski
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 13:09:20 -0400
  ...I have my Bentley manual open to the Digifant tank illustration on pages 20-26,27. Looks like MANY places to leak from. Any...
• FI comparison
  Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
  Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:09:37 -0800
  ...merits and merely rumored inuendo regarding the question of digijet vs. digifant. When rebuilding my 2.1, *rumor* has it that digijet actually runs...
• Re: '84 WBX: H pipe broke..questions
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:05:57 EDT
  ...You reduced the number of parts involved. (The Digifant system works like this) . . . . . . Drink a beer in celebrition for me! >> Ken, my man, I...
• Re: AFM operation query was Re: MAF Sensors and the Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:15:30 -0800
  ...it seems to me.............to get a useful input on a digifant ECU from an air mass meter.. there would have to be an...
• tapping sound
  Historical mailing list - gregory
  Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:19:05 -0700
  ...after leaving my 89 2.1 digifant vanagon sitting for a few days i heard a knocking sound on startup. right away i shut...
• ECU problem - urgent
  Historical mailing list - Steve Schwenk
  Wed, 10 May 2000 23:41:38 -0700
  ...elimination after 3 hours of diagnostic work points toward the ECU (Digifant #025906022). But its not definite and the computer will cost me $750...
• Re: how do you tell if you have a digijet or digigant???
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:49:36 -0400
  ...how does one tell the >difference?? > > Digijet has ECU forward of left taillight, Digifant has ECU under rear seat. Univac comes with a large...
• Re: Van wiring diagrams ...online
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:31:38 -0700
  What year do you want? (Yeah, those are 90-91 Digifant) I'll scan another one and send it too. Thom has said that...
• Re: will not start
  Historical mailing list - Jfp w/2 WBXs
  Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:34:03 +0000
  ...unmetered air leak in the crankcase ventilation and fixed? If the Digifant Control Module is not pulsing the injectors when the engine is rotating...
• Re: Train YOUR vehicles to get better gas mileage (it's Fryeday)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Foss - Shazam
  Fri, 30 May 2008 18:20:41 -0700
  ...scott Allan Streib wrote: > Does the Vanagon ECU (digifant) "learn"? I thought it was a pretty > dumb system. > -- > 1991 Vanagon GL > > David Kao <dtkao0205...
• Re: The details of Motronic (long)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:04:02 -0700
  Thanks for your questions on how Motronic differs from Digifant.. The answers here are given by our team of qualified technicians who are standing...
• Re: WBX Digifant Ground Check. No Continuity Between Some Points.
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sat, 9 Jun 2012 12:49:23 -0700
  Thank you David. Seems to me I should see continuity. I do see continuity between the crankcase vent heater brown ground wire and the...
• Re: My "new" WBX 2.1
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:18:45 -0800
  ...That's the typical Digifant engine and the 1.9 or 2.1 Digijet engines. BenT On Nov 19, 2010, at 4:54 AM...
• Re: ECU q's
  Historical mailing list - Rich Burdick
  Fri, 31 Jan 1997 21:32:07 -0500
  ...The 1983.5 to 1985 vans use an ECU for their Digijet > fuel injection that is significantly different than the 1986-1991 Digifant > equipped...
• Re: Vanagon and Spellcheckers
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn
  Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:30:32 -0700
  ...You don't know? Volkswagen or Vanagon as Second Language? You would learn expressions like "Wasserboxer" (say "Vusserboxer") and "Digifant" (say "Digifunt") and others...
• Re: Pressure Regulator/FI problems
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:12:02 -0700
  Try getting your VW specialist to borrow the idle stabilizer control unit from a known good running Digifant van (it lives in front of...
• FW: Need Help Removing Digigant Harness.
  Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
  Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:30:47 -0400
  ...Need Help Removing Digigant Harness. > > > Has anyone ever removed the digifant harness from a syncro. > > I am doing an engine conversion and would like...
• 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: Help Wiring O2 Sensor
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Sun, 27 Apr 2003 10:34:30 -0700
  ...A 4-wire sensor sounds like just the thing for digifant vanagon owners. I would certainly do it to mine if I didn't...
• Re: 2.1 in my '84 with digijet
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 24 May 2007 19:24:52 -0700
  ...set the timing at 5 degrees > BTDC like the 2.1 digifant setup? Thanks > > Pascal > > '84Westy > > > -- Jake 1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie...
• Re: I'm stumped! (misfire)
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Sat, 23 May 1998 14:14:05 -0500
  ...Maybe the solution here is to install a digifant ecu that uses use a knock sensor. My son near SLO on the left coast...
• Persistent running rich problem finally fixed. Here's how.
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
  Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:04:01 -0500
  ...The solution: * On the Digifant ECU terminal 19 there is a brown/black wire that grounds the green O2 sensor outer wire jacket. It...
• Re: Digifant 21. MV High Fuel Consumption
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 18 May 2009 18:29:45 -0400
  ...18, 2009 6:22 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Digifant 21. MV High Fuel Consumption I need some opinions... I have just...
• Throttle Body Question
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:57:39 -0500
  ...The fuel system is Digifant. The throttle body lays transverse over the engine. From the Right hand side of the firewall, through a hole...
• Correct Tranny?
  Historical mailing list - Joe Hunt
  Fri, 5 Oct 2001 00:56:26 EDT
  Volks, I am in the middle of putting a 1989 Jetta Digifant I4 engine in an 82 Diesel and from what I read the...
• Re: digifant ECU pin numbering
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Mon, 11 Nov 2002 08:39:41 -0500
  Larry; Peruse your peepers to page 24.61. Good Luck and Drive Safely Ken Lewis 86 Crewcab, 60 356 T-5 http://Neksiwel.20m...
• Re: Vanagon and VW Rabbit
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Wed, 9 Jan 2019 13:52:03 -0800
  ...Thankfully > the Vanagons used the Digijet and Digifant systems which are electronic. > These CIS systems were very ingenious in the way they controlled fuel...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Wed, 13 Nov 2013 04:15:01 -0600
  ...not me ;) > > Would arduino interface properly with the connection to pin 1 of Digifant ECU? > > Neil. > > On 11/12/13, JRodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com...
• Re: Temp II (for ECU) Sensor: Voltage Range?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:15:45 -0400
  ...With a "Luxemburg" Motronic 2.9 and Vanagon WBX Digifant coolant temp (for ECU) sensor in hand, I noticed each had a different voltage...
• Re: No Oil filler cap=poor idle..observation on Digifant..
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:10:53 -0400
  Don Hanson wrote: > How did you ever trace something like that down? >> The plastic part of the oil fill tube, where it joins the...
• Re: Running Hot
  Historical mailing list - John H. Rodgers
  Mon, 6 Apr 1998 12:57:38 -0500
  ...Running Hot > so, the question, where does your temp gauge needle sit on your perfectly > operational digifant powered vanagon? When the weather's cool...
• Re: Plugs...
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Tue, 12 May 1998 17:17:59 -0700
  ...triple electrode plugs that you can use in a 2.1 digifant vanagon motor. >You know the one's that Bosch makes. > >Thanks, > ****************************** Bosch...
• 95 Eurovan RV for sale
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Fri, 9 Apr 1999 22:39:39 -0500
  ...110 HP, 2.5 litre 5 cylinder digifant fuel injected front wheel drive 5 speed power steering, brakes alloy wheels 205/65 Steel radials...
• Re: TIICo
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:45 EDT
  ...The motronic system in the Tiico is actually much more friendly and familiar to them than Digifant ever was. Just my 2 cents. Thanks...
• Re: a/c causing rpms to drop when turned on.
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Sun, 2 Nov 2003 13:11:10 -0800
  ...On Digifant ('86 & newer), the idle is raised during A/C operation by the ISV and the Idle Control Unit. Cheers, Jeff -----Original Message...
• afm tuning
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:55:53 -0500
  ...I had adjusted afm main springs on L-Jetronic but never had to on a digifant. I have seen some discussion on this today...
• Re: Digifant start up question> RPMs 'hunt around'
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:49:11 -0700
  ...take Digifant waterboxers.. they'll run with many things out of whack.. but to be 'really, really right' .. it ALL has to be really...
• Re: 81 Air cooled... Engine conversion options??
  Historical mailing list - Daniel O Stevens
  Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:10:06 +0000
  ...6 Turbo Diesel 3) 1.8l gas (1989 jetta)inline4 w/Digifant And soon 4) 2.0l gas (1995 jetta) OBD-I or -II...