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• question about thermostat ... or not
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:19:01 -0800
  ...thermostat in place on a 1984 vanagon with a 2.1 digifant replacement engine (2005) with less than 1000 miles on it ... benny boy...
• Emissions testing Failed **%%%##$@!!!
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 1 Mar 96 9:22:35 PST
  ...1, Are the injectors different on the digifant than the digijet? 2, If one is bad should I replace all 4? 3, Napa sez...
• Re: Power Cut Out Update
  Historical mailing list - SyncroHead
  Fri, 19 Dec 1997 01:05:31 EST
  ...I had a similar problem that I was able to deduce that the coil was not getting the signal from the Digifant to "tell...
• Fuel filter/engine code.
  Historical mailing list - Jim Cain
  Sat, 26 Feb 2000 09:26:38 -0500
  ...How do I find the engine code referred to in the books? Do I have digifant or digijet? I bought a new fuel filter...
• Need Starter Help
  Historical mailing list - Ron Katz
  Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:07:57 EDT
  ...The Bentley describes removing the starter from a Syncro, but doesn't show removal from a regular 2.1 digifant engine. Anybody had any...
• crankcase breather valve?
  Historical mailing list - James Creech
  Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:50:58 -0500
  My Pro Training manual for the Digifant (don't know the model dates it covers) mentions a "breather valve" on the crankcase that controls...
• Re: Parts Wanted
  Historical mailing list - Chris Donaldson
  Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:22:09 -0600
  ...20 Sliding door insert in Grey Rear hatch Insert in Grey Digifant Idle Control Unit (behind passenger tail light) Idle Stabilizer Valve Tail pipe...
• more Vanagon related eBay auctions for $1
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 29 May 2006 21:03:42 -0700
  ...8070576639 Volkswagen Vanagon 86-92 Digifant 022D ECU computer - Item number: 8070577756 Volkswagen Vanagon 83+ Diesel rubber motor mounts - Item number: 8070579456 Volkswagen Passat...
• Help with a fueling problem diagnosis long.
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 28 Nov 2016 08:28:25 -0800
  The Digifant 84 tintop with ABA hybrid gas motor, stuck in there using the Vw diesel mounts and 5 sp trans. Digifant, can be...
• Re: ECU high idle
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:49:15 -0800
  Well, I don't know what " fuel injection setu on digifants" means, but I can tell everyone this, and I'm sure most people...
• Re: Single wire Oxygen sensor: Substitution report..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 1 Nov 2014 08:44:13 -0700
  ...the Digifant engine management system, being older and simpler and more basic than the newer EMS's that have come along, the Digifant uses...
• Re: Strange Idle behavior: Cause found
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:03:13 -0500
  ...Ouch. > > Does anybody know if the ISV from digifant Golf/Jettas are compatible? > I have a bucket with about 10 ISV's from these...
• Re: emissions inspection failure(Utah)
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Wed, 9 Jun 1999 18:46:48 -0500
  ...He's also concerned that there may be a problem inthe digifant >> brain. >> >> Any other thoughts? >> Has the fuel pressure ever been checked? How...
• Re: vanagon syndrome-- need capacitor
  Historical mailing list - Mark Cumnock
  Thu, 9 Jun 2005 13:41:14 -0400
  ...on a note of the syndrome it does affect a digijet system, and a digifant system , and it doesn't matter if it is...
• Group Buy Announcement for Upgrade Digifant ECU Chips
  Historical mailing list - sanford schulwolf
  Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:27:16 -0700
  Hello List, Hopefully in a few days I will place an order for either one Digifant ECU upgrade Chip or ten, maximum available is...
• Re: 5 amp fuse?
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:44:13 -0800
  ...engine compartment against the firewall, lives a 5 amp fuse. (1986 > Digifant Westy Syncro) > > Can someone please let me know what is its purpose...
• Re: idle adjustment problem
  Historical mailing list - C. Abney
  Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:34:27 -0800
  ...Have you been using the Digifant Pro Training Manual to tune the engine? It has everything in it that you need to know. On...
• Re: Conversion Choices
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 1 Sep 2012 17:09:47 -0700
  ...Multiple motors Ford ZTEC << > You missed mine, a VW inline gasser, ABA 2.0 block, 1.8 head, Digifant > II engine management. > > Geo/ATL >
• Re: o2 sensor wire splicing
  Historical mailing list - Peter Cassidy
  Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:44:38 +0100
  ...with ground) oxygen sensor I would like to use with my >digifant van. I picked up the cheaper Bosch O2 sensor last year & had...
• Is it still possible to build/buy one? (was: Whats a Digitool???)
  Historical mailing list - Joe L.
  Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:18:40 -0500
  ...Everything I saw on the Digitool is about the DigiFant versions. I believe there are modifications that can be made to allow use on...
• Re: FS: '81 Westy w/ GTI engine
  Historical mailing list - acg11awg
  Thu, 19 Jul 2001 20:53:00 -0400
  My '84 Westy has a Digifant II out of a '91 Jetta that I installed a couple years ago. I used Vanagon Diesel mounts...
• Re: VR6 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:57:22 -0800
  ...http://volksweb.relitech.com/../helmut/VR6-engine/vr6-engi.htm Alistair PS David, how did your Digifant problem work out? any joy? -- '82 Westy...
• Fried ECU diode...
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Faison
  Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:11:08 -0500
  ...Anybody run into this problem before? Thanks Kevin 91 Westy with Digifant
• FPR Going South?
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:26:36 -0500
  ...Prolly not Vanagon syndrome since I have a Haltech brain runing the engine instead of Digifant, but it may be acting up. The reason...
• Re: Idle Relay - Idle Valve match?
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:07:19 -0700
  ...Are there certain sets that were designed to go together? For the 2.1 Digifant in NA, there's just the B revision and...
• Re: Need AFM adapter so different aircleaner or cold air intake can be used
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:57:02 -0600
  ...XR4Ti (funky German Ford) uses the same basic air meter as > > Digifant. > > The difference is the Merkur unit has a round outlet adapter that...
• Re: 1990 2.1L Digijet European Caravelle wiring diagrams
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:51:17 -0700
  I'm running a DJ motor with 9.6:1 with Digifant and the O2 Sensor (the MV engine is 8.6:1 but...
• =?Windows-1252?Q?Re:______Won=B4t_start?=
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:46:27 -0500
  ...It should twitch every time the digifant pulses the coil. If you don't see it twitch check for 12 volts on both the...
• Re: flooding digifant
  Historical mailing list - jhlauterbach
  Sat, 7 Nov 1998 23:56:42 -0500
  ...flooding digifant >The problem is getting worse. About three or four months ago, Smoky refused >to start. This was most unusual because he usually...
• throttle position switch
  Historical mailing list - Ed Carroll
  Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:19:48 -0400
  ...Is the eccentric cam adjustment component of the Digifant throttle position switch a function of the switch body, or of the throttle valve body...
• Re: What is happening?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sat, 5 Jul 2003 21:35:21 -0700
  Joel , I should have mentioned that my system is '91 Jetta-Golf Digifant II which is similar to Vanagon Digifant. My engine is from...
• Re: '86 ECU (digifant) needed!!!!!
  Historical mailing list - K Miller
  Thu, 06 Feb 1997 11:38:32 -0800
  >No luck yet finding an ECU for my wifes 'new' '86. Checked everything and >indeed it is the ECU (thanks everyone for the help...
• 91 runs rough cold
  Historical mailing list - Eric Baden
  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:16:52 -0500 (EST)
  ...with a timing light - (Apparently the book listed procedure for the digifant engine is not very clear or doesn't involve a light). Thanks...
• What to do if you're really stranded in a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jim Kennedy
  Mon, 17 May 2004 12:48:20 -0700
  ...in San Diego in my '87 GL, it started doing the Digifant dive. Lurch, cough, blah. You haven't lived until you coast deadstick...
• WTB or Borrow Digifant ECU (Vancouver, B.C.)
  Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
  Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:24:45 -0400
  OK, NOW I'm getting annoyed. Our 1987 Westy has steadily been getting worse: More so when the engine is cold, it will buck...
• Re: Spare ECU
  Historical mailing list - HotelWestfalia
  Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:51:27 -0800
  ...in the past, but Mr. >>Bereil will confirm that most Bosch Digifant ECU's have serious >>cracks in the circuit boards and he was...
• Re: 85' low idle, loss of power/compression, surging please help
  Historical mailing list - Robert Steven Fish
  Sat, 23 Nov 2002 23:04:23 +0100
  ...I have an 87, and am not certain if '85 is digijet or digifant... so until you find this out, my info may be...
• Troubleshooting the Basic Idle Stabilizer System - Manual Transmissions- Part I
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:58:29 -0500
  ...John Rodgers 88 GL Driver In my Digifant FI manual - Part I Vanagon/Type II Fuel Systems - Digifant TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDELINES Poor Idle: a) At...
• Re: Digijet Tool?
  Historical mailing list - Carl Turner
  Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:26:48 EST
  ...sort of parts list and plans deal you made for the digifant tool on the web page? I would certainly consider building one! I...
• Re: Test equipment
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:25:21 -0400
  > I considered the Digifant tool mentioned on the WWW, but the ECU's I'm coming > across are sealed as a condition of warranty...
• Re: emergency--gasoline leak
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Sat, 27 May 2000 13:22:07 EDT
  ...I do not not if the same test point is in the Digifant system since I have not needed it.......yet. Rich
• Attn: Bruce Conway re: sale items
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:40:35 -0700
  ...COM> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 7:05 AM Subject: FS: Digifant ECU and attached "Digitool" > I sold my Vanagon. Have a ECU from...
• Help!! Need a Digifant ECM quick
  Historical mailing list - Eric
  Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:31:15 -0500
  Hi all, Well after my '88 Westy died while backing out of a parking space so I had it towed to my mechanic. He...
• Re: Inline 4 Recommendation
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Mon, 1 Mar 2004 22:14:46 -0500
  The easiest is clearly the Digifant Golf and Jetta from 1988 thru 1992. Electrically you have to do some wiring, but much more compatable...
• Re: Westy has been sitting a while.
  Historical mailing list - Alan Sinclair
  Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:00:24 -0700
  ...I'm not an expert, but maybe someone more knowledgeable will chime in Alan Andrew wrote: >My 84 Westy, with a Digifant II I4...
• Re: Best Year Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:30:22 -0500
  I believe the digifant an improvement over the digijet with the elimination of the mechanical advance, funky idle valve(and associated yards of vacuum...
• Re: diesel to gas swap
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 18 May 1999 11:36:06 -0700
  ...Other listmembers have proposed that the Motronic head be replaced with a Digifant one to reduced overall engine height and allow fitment without deck...
• Fwd: 2.2 engine hiccups at 3300 rpm
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:26:07 -0400
  ...On the way home >> my 1988 2.2 digifant engine started to hiccup only at 3300-3400 rpm in 3rd >> and 4 th gear...
• V'gon upper respiratory difficulties
  Historical mailing list - Woody Halsey
  Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:24:42 EST
  I have read with sympathy recent posts about hiccoughing and hestitating in the Digijet and Digifant systems. Those who were on the list a...
• OXS sensitivity
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:30:00 -0400
  ...Today I had the leak fixed and the van purrs like a kitten :-) Just thought you should know how sensitive our OXS/Digifant system...
• The Better Waterboxer Motor....the simpler 1.9L or the 2.1L with all ofthose additional hoses....reliability?...power?
  Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
  Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:56:07 -0500
  ...I wonder if a digijet and a digifant were used on a 2.1L if the power output would be comparable.....I like the...
• Re: hesitation from a stop and replacing afm
  Historical mailing list - SStones
  Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:25:16 -0500
  ...Complete VW factory rebuilt motor >with less than 40K miles on it. (Got receipts) Complete with all the >digifant injection stuff. > >I hear there...
• Re: Timing Billy Bones - Need Help.
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Thu, 4 Mar 2004 16:09:54 -0800
  ...Billy is a > Digifant. After all I've been through, am I going > to have to give in and take him to a pro...
• alternator pulley part numbers
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:16:47 -0400
  i'm stock piling parts to put another golf 1.8 digifant engine in a vanagon. i want to delete the ac and power...
• Re: Big day at the parts yard
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:53:15 -0600
  ...One is called "Vanagon/Type II >Fuel Systems" and it has three sections (AFC, Digijet, & Digifant) and >the other manual is called "Digifant I...
• Re: Engine miss
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:53:09 -0700
  ...Engine miss > > Does this version Digifant use an AFM? If so.... -- Neil n Blog: tubaneil.blogspot.ca '88 Westy http://tinyurl.com/c8rlw6p '81...
• Re: looking for oil pressure gauge/kit
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:08:45 -0700
  ...looking for oil pressure gauge/kit i've got a 2.0 aba bottom end with a 1.8 digifant head. I want to...
• for all the New People: bosch fuel injection info
  Historical mailing list - J. Walker
  Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:41:00 CDT
  ...diesel (1981-1983) gasoline (1993 eurovan, 1991-1986 vanagon (digifant), 1985-1983 vanagon (digijet), 1983-1980 vanagon (air-cooled), 1979-1974 buses) other folks...
• Re: digijet tool need help
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Sat, 18 Jul 1998 16:30:41 -0500
  ...I think it will be about 5 >volts like the digifant but I need to be positive. TIA > >Darrell >
• Re: mixture adjustment without gas analyzer
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Sun, 2 Aug 1998 21:09:03 -0700
  ...The original poster has an "'86 Westy" which makes his system a Digifant (not L-Jetronic nor CIS) if it makes any difference... Thank...