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  • Re: Billy won't run
    Historical mailing list - Warren.K.Lail-1
    Sat, 6 Mar 2004 11:15:42 -0600
    ...The European 2.1 engines with digijet injection do not > use an O2 > sensor due to the leaded fuel used > > Bob Donalds > http://www...
  • Re: Poor Hot Start Discovery - midway through solution
    Historical mailing list - Skip
    Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:48:33 +0000
    ...sock inside the tank." OP (Skip - me) now writes: '84 Westy, Digijet. I replaced the pre-fuel pump little plastic square filter with the...
  • Re: Power loss above 3000 rpms in 85 Westy
    Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
    Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:36:21 -0800
    ...Hi all, I am having an issue with my 85 Westy with a 2.1 wbx and digijet fi. The idle is fine and...
  • Re: '85 (Digijet) Hall Sensor Symptoms
    Historical mailing list - David Richoux
    Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:20:09 -0800
    The symptoms of the problem with my 83.5 Westy not restarting were similar - after a night long cool-down things were fine but...
  • Re: dumb fuel injection question
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:37:52 -0700
    ...way to express it is .. it's not timed sequential injection. Digijet and Digifant injection are not that sophisticated. the ecu fires all four...
  • Re: ECU and 85 Vanagon??
    Historical mailing list - Mick Kalber
    Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:01:01 -1000
    ...and up vehicles? Is the ECU even related to the Digifant/Digijet? Yep, I know the gearheads of the group probably think this is...
  • Re: 85 wbx 1.9 miss at idle
    Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
    Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:15:38 -0500
    ...The Digijet distributor has a vacuum retard built into it for emission purposes. The retarded timing (5ATDC) causes it to burn hotter and cleaner...
  • Re: Clutch specs???
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:54:20 -0700
    ...2.1 exhaust system and 2.1 ntake with 1.9 Digijet fuel injection - works great ! Scott www.turbovans.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg...
  • Re: what's the best kind of gasoline?
    Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
    Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:49:22 -0400
    ...The Digijet FI system certainly won't know the difference. Jay Malcolm Stebbins <Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.CA>@gerry.vanagon.com> on 10/03/2002...
  • Re: sad engine fire victim, 88 Wolfy
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Thu, 1 May 2008 22:23:49 -0700
    ...black bits of fuel rail that feed the injectors, > the early Digijet > ones with steel bands on the ends can have the band rust...
  • Re: CO Adjusting Screw. PO Set it All The Way In? Base Setting?
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:10:26 -0400
    ...On the Digijet it's simpler, close the throttle with rpm above ~1500 and you're shut down until the throttle opens or you...
  • Re: Euro-Drive: 84 Volkswagen vanagon, No-start
    Historical mailing list - jimkim
    Mon, 5 Apr 1999 07:28:24 -0700
    ...Trans: Automatic > Mileage: 126,909 miles > VIN: [No VIN available.] > Fuel: digijet > > Symptoms: No Start > > ____________________________________________________________ > > This is my first volkswagen I've ever worked...
  • Re: gas prices- a canadian perspective
    Historical mailing list - Marc Sayer
    Sun, 6 Mar 2005 21:29:10 -0800
    ...4,5 mpg with the alcohol. > I don't think the Digijet,or Digifant would be able to handle the > correct volume of fluid...
  • Re: O2 sensors: 1-wire to replace 3-wire?
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 26 Jul 1996 12:14:00 -0500
    ...to the outputs of the various sensors than the previous system [Digijet?]. It sounds like the 3-wire would be the best bet. Hey...
  • Yet Even More About My Injectors
    Historical mailing list - Vdub Guy
    Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:34:27 +0000
    ...Jim Thompson's write up and put it in using the Digijet injection. It ran beautifully, so well, in fact that I thought the...
  • 2.1 w/solid lifters - Frankenstein's Monster Lives!
    Historical mailing list - VW Doka
    Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:48:04 -0700
    ...The cooling system is stock 1.9 liter, as is the Digijet FI. We did cut the seats on the heads and resurface the...
  • Re: Rebuilding vanagon engine
    Historical mailing list - quoton
    Sat, 4 Apr 1998 20:33:45 -0800
    ...rpm and I believe the L-jetronic with ego > sensor and digijet use the afm and rpm. A bad or partial clogged injector > can...
  • 2.1L in an '85?
    Historical mailing list - Tony Moore
    Wed, 23 Jul 1997 07:08:40 -0400
    ...with that set-up!) and I believe the '85 used a Digijet like on my old '83.5. I'm assuming I would just...
  • Re: Cold Start Chug and Warm Stumbling
    Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
    Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:09:32 EST
    ...Jason Yasment <vanagon@NYCAP.RR.COM> writes: << Patient: '84 1.9l Digijet currently in hibernation Symptoms: When first started the van will chug at...
  • Re: No start '87 Digifant WAS fuel lines R & R
    Historical mailing list - Detroit Bus
    Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:21:25 -0500
    ...But I am not sure if this is a problem because my vehicle is a Digifant, and this is a Digijet page. I can...
  • performance and reliability
    Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
    Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:16:37 -0600
    ...1.9L? 18) what mileage is expected from a 1.9L digijet vs 2.1L digifant?......both w/ manual trans.....is the fant better...
  • Re: O2 sensor problems
    Historical mailing list - Lastfogel, Darren
    Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:30:44 -0400
    ...On the '83 digijet there are two idle position switches. I definitely know that one of the switches is not set properly. The one...
  • Re: Another call for dead ECUs
    Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
    Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:50:55 -0800
    ...if there were any dead ECUs > floating > >around out there? Digifant, Digijet... i don't > really > >care, but i want to rip the stock...
  • Re: Why doesn't fuel shut off?
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:19:31 -0400
    ...Why doesn't fuel shut off? According to Bentley's and the VW Digijet Protraining manual for the 1.9l engine, if the Throttle...
  • Re: 40 minutes drive and then cuts out.
    Historical mailing list - Zolly
    Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:37:53 -0700
    ...The engine is 2.1L, the system is for the 1.9 > engine, digijet. I have checked with the digitool all the possible > items...
  • Re: Bentley vs. Haynes
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:18:13 -0400
    ...Westy-specific info; 2) it doesn't know that the US Digijet uses an O2 sensor; 3) the wiring diagrams are for "typical" setups...
  • Re: Weird bucking
    Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
    Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:02:54 -0500
    ...the only thing maybe kind of weird is that >i typically show a .06v ground potential difference >(since i have a digijet, my pin...
  • Re: Analog TPS fitted to a WBX throttle body?
    Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
    Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:14:16 -0800
    ...To answer your last question, i am going with megasquirt because my stock digijet FI system is having a hard time fitting with a...
  • Digitool saves the day
    Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
    Fri, 24 Dec 1999 06:25:08 -0800
    ...the coil is being pulsed by the distributor and ignition > module digijet and by the distributor ecu on vanagon digifant. > Fi led indicates the...
  • Re: Hard starting when warm
    Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
    Sun, 24 Dec 2000 18:18:59 +0000
    ...The injectors do pulse rapidly since the digijet/fant are not sqequential and All four injectors pulse at the same time. The CPU recieves...
  • Re: Will 90 Cabrio ISV Control unit fit 87 Vanagon?
    Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
    Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:34:42 +0000
    ...Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:56:36 -0400 > > > > > >My Digifant '90 Cabriolet has two wires going to the idle stabilizer. >My > > >Vanagon is Digijet...
  • 2,1 stalling in rain
    Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
    Tue, 10 Nov 1998 05:10:13 -0800
    ...is a 1988 2,1 DJ series, 175000 km, with a Digijet injection, the ECU is mounted behind the left taillight. It doesn't...
  • Driveability issues with a non-stock engine
    Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
    Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:22:45 -0800
    ...Fuel injection is stock 1.9 Digijet. The problem is that it ironically lacks power, and has little (and sometimes NO!) power when accellerating...
  • Re: My Engine Has Bit the Dust
    Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
    Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:42:56 -0500
    ...Reused the 1.9 Digijet fuel injection, noticed a little increase in power, but not that much different than my 1.9. It runs...
  • Re: '85, 1.9 timing questions
    Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
    Sat, 9 Feb 2002 12:30:21 -0500
    ...let me recap I have installed a 2.1 big valve engine in my 84 camper I kept the digijet fuel injection system and...
  • Re: Question about Transmission Stutter
    Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
    Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:45:54 -0700
    ...With the Digijet system if the first switch isn't adjusted properly you will get bucking under certain conditions. Accelerating or, in my case...
  • Re: HELP - My Westfalia won't start when warm - may have to cancel camping!
    Historical mailing list - Owen
    Fri, 16 May 2003 08:01:08 -0500
    ...mostly when warm. > > The engine is a 112hp DJ motor with Digijet injection - same injection > system as our 83.5-85 Vanagons. > > Sometimes, when...
  • Re: why I discourage people from buying vanagons
    Historical mailing list - Scott - IMAP
    Sat, 2 Jul 2016 18:20:38 -0700
    I suppose one could say that about Vanagon Digijet and Digifant Fuel Injection. I can say for sure it REALLY helps to have a...
  • 2.5L 120HP waterboxer.....that runs on 91 octane......90mm stroke by 94mm bore....and pases smog...hmmm?
    Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
    Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:58:59 -0600
    ...9L case.......Would you get the same amount of HP w/ digijet as you would with a stock 2.1L with digifant....... (95 HP...
  • Re: ECU firmware location
    Historical mailing list - tinker man
    Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:56:13 +0200
    ...anybody know if the firmware for our ECU's (Digifant or Digijet) > > > resides completely on the 2732 EPROM or is part of it contained...
  • Re: Digijet rough/wandering idle and bucking at slower speeds
    Historical mailing list - TonyCollins
    Thu, 26 Sep 2013 22:35:54 -0400
    Any tears in the "s" boot from the air box to the tb? Had that happens as that rubber hardens over time and with...
  • Help, was: Re: 1.9l Oil pump R&R
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Tue, 3 Nov 1998 23:45:22 EST
    ...come off in > >order to remove the oil pump on a digijet engine? Bentley has a > >lovely drawing which assumes that the engine is...
  • My westy one year later (was oil pressure woes 2/01)
    Historical mailing list - Brian Cochran
    Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:44:31 -0800
    ...The engine is a 2.1 in a digijet dress, and that even though the muscle is there, the air intake couldn't supply...
  • Re: Fuel Line Replacement
    Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
    Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:02:00 -0400
    ...On a Digijet, unplug the ground wire to the fuel pump. Then run the engine until it dies of fuel starvation (only a few...
  • Re: Hot Cat
    Historical mailing list - HotelWestfalia
    Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:34:30 -0800
    ...I'm going to try replacing the spark plug > wires today. > Any insight will be greatly appreciated, oh yea it's a digijet. 1...
  • diagnostic help? running rich(?)...
    Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
    Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:31:58 -0600
    ...older Vanagons " ie 01/83 to 07/85 then it is DigiJet not Digifant ~ But since you do talk about it having an O2Snsr...
  • Re: (new to list!) tranny stuck in gear!
    Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
    Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:37:08 -0400
    ...vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: (new to list!) tranny stuck in gear! > > > '84 digijet, 4 spd > > I was happily driving along last night when...
  • Big day at the parts yard
    Historical mailing list - Warren Lail
    Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:47:31 -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: How Long Does it Take Your Van to Warm up? Cont.
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:35 -0400
    ...The 84 system, is known as Digijet. It is basically a carry over from the air cooled engines with the addition of the O2...
  • Re: setting the timing on my 1984 1.9 vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Dan Wallace
    Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:07:04 -0800
    ...For our 1.9's with digijet, Bentley calls for rpms to be 850 + or - 50 and timing to be 5 + or - 1 degree...
  • Re: vanagon, 83 watercooled diesel
    Historical mailing list - Evan Martin
    Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:11:52 -0600
    ...to keep > my 83 Westy with 2.1 engine running on Digijet fuel system from going 75. > ( for sale btw ) > > What I find obnoxious...
  • Re: Replacing radiator Fan Thermo switch questions
    Historical mailing list - Dan N
    Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:40:43 -0700
    ...Meanwhile I am running a > 2.1 > >> on Digijet & no AC, so not sure if that makes any difference! > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >>> On...
  • Re: How bad is it to have dual carbs instaed if the FI on an 84
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
    Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:00:50 -0700
    ...it is.' On my own personal best traveling vanagon I run Digijet EFI on a 2.1 long block , exhaust and intake...works just...
  • Throttle Valve Switch - Lesson Learned
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:04:12 -0400
    ...Beginning in late '85, the Digijet TVS is one unit that sits under the throttle body, upside down. (Prior to mid-'85, there were...
  • Re: Rich on side, lean the other?
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
    Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:22:07 -0700
    ...that all four injector outputs are indeed wired in parallel (Euro Digijet 025 906 021F, no reason others versions are different). Technical answer? 1...
  • Re: What years power steering?
    Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
    Sat, 7 Jun 2008 07:04:46 EDT
    ...It was right at the change over to waterboxers and had Digijet injection. I may be remembering the year wrongly, perhaps it was 83...
  • Re: "intermittant syndrome" harness fix...only for 2.1L vans???
    Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
    Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:00:52 -0800
    ...I don't know of any Digijet AFM problem cases. Having bad spark plug wires can cause similar bucking, cutting out and stalling symptoms...
  • Re: GoWesty 2.4 L Engine
    Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
    Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:50:35 -0400
    ...Mixing and matching components is not plug-and-play going between digifant and digijet. I've been lurking on the Bostig google group for...
  • Re: Gas tank filler seal numbers
    Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
    Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:11:24 -0700
    ...All 85's had some parts that were different from the > 84's even though they retained the 1.9 and the Digijet FI...
  • DJ-code WBX technical specs
    Historical mailing list - Chris S
    Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:36:40 -0500
    ...Bosch Digijet Injection type: multi-point fuel injection - intermittient air metering: flow Valve timing at 1mm lift in degrees inlet open: 10 BTDC inlet...