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• Re: Tighten-up your AFM
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Fri, 10 Sep 1999 06:46:11 -0400
  By tightening the AFM spring, aren't you forcing the injection to miscalculate the intake airflow, yielding a "lean" state? I love simple solutions...
• Re: Idle Stabilization parts Costs
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:00:46 -0800
  ...The coil is controlled directly from the ECU, and it is not yet confirmed if the distributor input mods work with the stock distributor...
• Re: Gas Heater Plumbing
  Historical mailing list - Joseph J Helwig
  Wed, 31 Jul 1996 09:26:51 -0600
  ...The excess gas is re-routed back to the fuel tank - sort of like a miniature fuel injection system. If your model has a...
• Re: Fuel Injection Cleaner
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:14:48 -0800 (PST)
  ...I would guess that the amount of gasoline and additives that ends up in the oil is directly proportional to the sealing capability of...
• question about Eurovan TDI
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:31:58 -0700
  ...Is the turbo-diesel direct injection TDI available on the Eurovan yet? If yes, can you please tell me the following: 1. fuel economy...
• Re: VW Customer Relations on Westfalias in US
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 09 May 1996 00:47:37 -0700
  ...I say where's the 140 horse Direct Injection computer controled and ultra clean smokeless 2.5 TDI? It appears to be the same...
• Re: tdi
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:59:15 +1200
  ...Hopefully much simpler to install because of non >electronic control, although not a direct bolt on for the oil pan >and oil pick up...
• '82 Diesel features and price
  Historical mailing list - Edward Duntz
  Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:40:59 -0500
  ...One thing that I had seen on other models is a piece on the floor between the front seats that directs heat from the...
• Re: Cold Start Valve
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 12 May 1996 20:21:19
  ...fuel injection on an air-cooled Vanagon isn't much different. I would try disconnecting the sensor and connecting an alligator clip directly between...
• Re: Fuel Injector Question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:44:50 -0500
  ...The water cooled injectors are ~16 ohm and get the positive voltage directly from the fuel pump circuit. 4- 16 ohm loads in parallel...
• Re: Timing belt replacement and valve timing in VW gas and Diesel engines
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:40:49 -0700
  ...There is a trick to it, involving preloading the injection pump gear in reverse direction slightly, with the locking pin still in place. Mark...
• Re: Finding a Good Repair Shop - Dgitool
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:51:05 PDT
  ...but it will >take >you some time to familiarize yourself with the Fuel Injection components in >the engine compartment and some practice with the...
• Re: 1980 Vanagon L
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Mon, 24 May 2004 22:11:43 -0400
  ...I'm not versed in the > aircooled variety nor the fuel injection. I really enjoy the diesel and > it's simplicity. I would any...
• Re: Idle Stabilization parts Costs
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:04:01 -0500
  ...It uses the stock fuel rail but replaces the AFM, ECU, Idle stabilizer, etc with a modern hot-wire fuel injection setup. For $600...
• Re: Aircooled hydrolic lifter problems
  Historical mailing list - Lane Cooper
  Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:56:36 PDT
  All you waterheads may not know how to help me but maybe you can direct me to someone who can. I rebuilt me engine...
• Re: 2.1 fits right in
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:45:12 -0800
  I know as a fact, demonstrated in my very own driveway, that a stock 1.9l exhaust WILL NOT fit directly on a stock...
• Re: Timing belt replacement and valve timing in VW gas and Diesel engines
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:42:14 -0500
  ...There is a trick to it, involving > preloading the injection pump gear in reverse direction slightly, with the > locking pin still in place. > > Mark...
• Re: Sportsvans (sic)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Apr 1994 07:39:25 -0600
  ...90bhp direct injection diesel, >115bhp 2.0 litre (don't know if this is Ford's orW's engine) and, of course, >the VR6...
• Improved fuel additive ZVW 239 003
  Historical mailing list - Subject: Improved fuel additive ZVW 239 003
  May 31, 1990
  Research by Volkswagen AG and other manufacturers has shown that the performance of todays gasoline engines is directly influenced by the type and quality...
• Re: Diesel verse gas?
  Historical mailing list - mdstockr
  Fri, 24 Jan 97 10:19:21
  ...Just look at VW's new direct injection engine. --- On Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:56:12 -0600 Cetin Seren <cseren@fore.com> wrote...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Stuart Fedak VE3SMF
  Sat, 16 Nov 2013 14:35:44 -0800
  ...All four injectors open at the same time and inject fuel directly into the intake manifold near the intake valves. Injector quantity is controlled...
• Re: NOx emissions (WAS: '85 Westy failing Pa. emissions) 3 way cats
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:02:14 -0500
  ...That is why lean-NOx cats are being developed for >>| diesel and gasoline direct injection engines. > > I do not believe any of the vanagons...
• Re: Timing belt replacement and valve timing in VW gas and Diesel engines
  Historical mailing list - James Felder
  Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:18:06 -0500
  ...There is a trick to it, involving > preloading the injection pump gear in reverse direction slightly, with the > locking pin still in place. > > Mark...
• Sportsvans (sic)
  Historical mailing list - William Warburton
  Mon, 11 Apr 94 9:40:36 GMT
  ...90bhp direct injection diesel, 115bhp 2.0 litre (don't know if this is Ford's or VW's engine) and, of course, the...
• Re: 2,1 stalling in rain
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Mon, 9 Nov 1998 23:35:37 -0500
  ...I feel that the injection system is really hard to > pinpoint opposed to carbs, and I don't have any spare parts lying > around...
• Re: after market fuel tank
  Historical mailing list - David W. Palmerston
  Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:16:59 -0800
  ...the wrong direction as it exits at the supply port to the engine and it might cause serious disruption to the injection system <BG...
• Re: Digijet ecu failures --- Help !
  Historical mailing list - Bill Thomas
  Fri, 3 Sep 1999 23:54:52 -0400
  ...At 08:44 PM 9/3/99 EDT, you wrote: >My '84 Westy with the Digijet fuel injection has just blown another ECU. >The...
• Re: '82 Diesel features and price
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:28:12 -0500
  ...The original injection pump was Vanagon specific. In order for this to be drivable on today's highways you need a 1.9 and...
• Can you please help me troubleshoot my fuel injection?
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 18 Aug 1996 13:44:43 -0700
  ...Any suggestions as to what I should test? Thanks in advance! P.S. - I am in digest mode so please respond to me directly.
• Re: '87 westy idles problem
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:34:19 -0600
  ...it? If so, that indicates a problem somewhere in the fuel injection system. Provide more details as you get them, and we will be...
• Help! My Vanagon Won't Vanna Go!
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Hayden
  Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:14:34 -0500
  ...When removing the breather hose that goes into the fuel injection unit, I sprayed some starting fluid in and I got it to run...
• Re: Portland OR Vanagon Engine Swap Shop
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:40:32 -0700
  ...If the shop can't do that custom work, just the engine/transmission swap is fine; I have the online directions for the swap...
• Re: Subject: 86 Vanagon intermittently shuts off at speed
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:29:47 -0600
  ...coolant warning light, etc, but there's no direct connection between this and the fuel injection system. > 6. some pretty technical solution that involves...
• Re: engine efficiency, I4s, subies, etc
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 4 Nov 2001 11:59:55 +1200
  ...As the injector >transfer pressure go up, and injectors go electrical, and injection is >directly into the chamber, the torque curves keep going upward...
• Re: diesel altitude compensation
  Historical mailing list - Alex Towner
  Mon, 8 Mar 2004 03:06:10 -0500
  ...The basic solutions are always to check the injection pump timing and to test the injectors for good spray pattern and opening pressure on...
• Re: Gas question, seriously folks
  Historical mailing list - James
  Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:31:23 -0500
  ...are greatly appreciated. > > When you ask a question like this, that directly relates to the exact type of engine in your van, > which was...
• Re: For the dreamers
  Historical mailing list - Blue Eyes
  Mon, 07 Jul 1997 14:46:33 -0700
  ...But since the new series of VW/Audi direct injection TDI motors appeared back in 1992, it's completely out of touch. For most...
• Re: VW Customer Relations on Westfalias in US
  Historical mailing list - Terry Tan
  Wed, 10 Jul 1996 05:29:09 -0400 (EDT)
  ...I say where's the 140 horse > Direct Injection computer controled and ultra clean smokeless 2.5 TDI? > It appears to be the same...
• Bosch CIS problems
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 4 Jan 1996 20:06:26 -0500
  ...I used the stock CIS fuel injection. All has been well until it started getting cold. My problem: 1st, It started skipping. Not ignition...
• Re: setting the timing on my 1984 1.9 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Tue, 14 Feb 2006 04:15:32 EST
  ...That is to say, turn the distributor a bit in the correct direction, then give everything a few seconds to catch up and THEN...
• Re: starting problems
  Historical mailing list - TBill
  Sat, 30 Aug 1997 02:38:19 -0700
  ...After a few more episodes with the screwdriver I put a starter button on top of the battery case and ran a wire directly...
• Re: Engine Swap (long)
  Historical mailing list - Bob O'Shaughnessy
  Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:41:08 -0000
  ...I'd also recommend the CIS-E injection, because it is a bit more advanced than the CIS injection and a bit easier to...
• Re: Vanagon fuel requirement
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:29:35 CDT
  ...Purge injection system with G-16 cleaner. Refer to current Technical Information Circulars for injection purge instructions. * Check that fuel and ignition systems are...
• Re: choking conversion
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:53:59 -0800
  ...what type of fuel injection system is it; CIS, CIS-E, Digifant II? There could be lots of things making the engine barely run...
• Re: Comments on Splittie
  Historical mailing list - Mike Blotz
  Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:28:12 -0600
  ...The Corvair guys are building very reliable engines in the 150 HP range with modern fuel injection and minor things like exhaust and head...
• Re: List members in Quebec -- wesfalia reconditioning shop
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:32:52 EDT
  ...has a plastic injection moulding company in Montreal. I sell them for him or you need to contact him directly or attend one of...
• Re: Extra long, or Vanalong
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 31 May 1996 11:28:39 -0700
  ...One wonders if this 5 cylinder gaser and the newer direct injection 2.5 diesel motor would similarly attach to a 5 speed Vanagon...
• re: lambadas??
  Historical mailing list
  14 Sep 95 12:20:00 PDT
  ...Reply Text: (51 lines follow) doin' the fuel injection lamabada..... If you are refering to the "lambda" unit, sometimes called the oxygen sensor, one...
• Re: 83.5 won't start - Help!
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:29:00 +0100
  ...injection are both new to me but I do have a good grasp of the concepts. > Please point me in the right direction if...
• Re: Tough driving(thin air)
  Historical mailing list - John Klun
  Sun, 1 Jul 2001 10:57:07 -0600
  ...Depending on which direction I'm driving, I climb in 3rd and keep the speed around 55-60. In the other direction I can...
• Re: 1990 2.1L Digijet European Caravelle wiring diagrams
  Historical mailing list - T.M.
  Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:01:57 -0400
  ...whereas the ECU is responsible only for fuel injection (while the ignition is generated directly by by the signal from the hall sender in...
• Re: Vanagon? Really? Gasoline vs. Diesel-again.
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:31:32 -0600
  ...We are starting to see gasoline >>> engines that will be direct injection and at some point we will see >>> them going to compression ignition...
• Re: Alternator replacement for 1.9 TDIe in my 1982 Diesel Westy
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:30:23 -0500
  ...As in > mechanically injected / non-electronic TDI engine. > > whether a tdi engine has a fully mechaical Injection pump or > e-controlled one has no...
• bad acceleration / fuel injection??
  Historical mailing list - Scott Longing
  Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:41:02 -0400
  ...Thanks for any direction on this, I will get to the point in future mail. Scott Blacksburg, VA 85 Vanagon
• fuel pump doesn't work, or not :-)
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Sun, 25 Aug 2002 22:07:48 -0400
  ...cooled, fuel injection. Got the van into the garage, and couldn't resist just diving under and checking the pump directly. I checked the...
• UPDATE: (83.5 won't start) IT LIVES!
  Historical mailing list - Sharon & Miguel Calvin
  Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:08:11 -0500
  ...injection are both new to me but I do have a good grasp of the concepts. Please point me in the right direction if...
• Re: It still stalls!
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Fri, 24 May 2002 15:32:47 -0400
  ...The 02 sensor is one of the two primary sensing components of the fuel injection system. Without it, the computer has very little data...
• Re: Amended Webber question
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:28:49 PST
  ...Also some discussion about Carb icing on the vanagon@onelist (or whatever that name is) or you can contact me directly but right now...
• Re: Vanagon/Subaru Deep Thoughts...use a Link computer
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Fri, 1 Jun 2001 20:22:56 +1200
  >With all the grief I read on this mailing list concerning the VW fuel >injection system and ECU, wouldn't it make more sense...
• Re: Aircooled Cylinder Head Temps - first observations
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Sun, 24 Dec 2006 20:03:19 -0800
  Mother�s Alcohol Fuel Seminar � The Mother Earth News, 1980 Ron Novak's Do-It-Yourself Water Injection System One of MOTHER's seminar...