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• Digifant harness & Bucking Technote
  Historical mailing list - Steven Shane
  Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:06:19 -0500
  ...Between pin 4 and 3 is the Potentiometer endpoints and pin 2 is the wiper of the potentiometer that moves by the air flow...
• Re: Was Insurance now iPhones relating to Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:24:19 -0700
  ...Currently the entire amp is behind the dash, including the potentiometer. Volume is controlled through the phone, though I may consider moving the pot...
• Re: Richards fog light query, inside look
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Sun, 5 Apr 2020 12:53:39 -0700
  ...Good idea! > > I now further regret tossing all those old potentiometers, gear with > same! Didn't think to keep at least a couple pots...
• More 89 Bluestar questions
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:06:00 -0500
  ...The black plastic lid on the air box potentiometer has clearly been off for reasons I do not know but it must be in...
• Re: Hiccups
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 18 May 1998 08:25:13 CDT
  ...Between pin 4 and 3 is the Potentiometer endpoints and pin 2 is the wiper of the potentiometer that moves by the air flow...
• How about changing the resonate frequency? WAS: Yup, those are my symptoms!
  Historical mailing list - Joe L.
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:16:04 -0500
  ...Between pin 4 and 3 is the Potentiometer endpoints and pin 2 is the wiper of the potentiometer that moves by the air flow...
• Water tank level sensor problems
  Historical mailing list - S Sittservl
  Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:05:33 EDT
  ...the panel, I figure I can hook up a 1M ohm potentiometer ($1.49 at Radio Shack), and I should be able to light...
• Re: Service Bulletin for AFMs and harness
  Historical mailing list - yahi
  Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:48:20 -0800
  ...Some air-flow meters may experience a vibration resonance of the meter potentiometer wiper during extended constant driving. This resonance causes the air-flow...
• Re: LVC Friday: Camp Fire Heat Damage Cell Phone?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sun, 21 Jul 2013 09:24:57 -0700
  ...Most electronic components can tolerate washing with distilled water and then full drying but some parts, notably electromechanical parts like potentiometers and relays which...
• Re: Help Needed, On the Road - thanks to all
  Historical mailing list - mad madeline
  Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:50:22 -0700
  ...Between pin 4 and 3 is the Potentiometer endpoints and pin 2 is the wiper of the potentiometer that moves by the air flow...
• Digifant problems - uneven running
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Mon, 10 Oct 94 9:55:53 PDT
  ...Bulletin 92-01 that the cause is that "some air-flow meters experience a vibration resonance of the metering potentiometer wiper during extended constant...
• Re: Coolant resistance thru coolant level probe
  Historical mailing list - Leon Korkin
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:18:44 -0700
  ...I adjusted various potentiometers which I had attached to the > connector for the level sensor probe until I found that the circuit > triggered at...
• Re: Coolant resistance thru coolant level probe
  Historical mailing list - Maynard Southard
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 12:22:29 -0400
  ...I adjusted various potentiometers which I had attached to the > connector for the level sensor probe until I found that the circuit > triggered at...
• The repair for,,, 93 Eurovan Dies During Constant Highway Driving
  Historical mailing list - Michael Modl
  Fri, 13 Aug 1999 03:50:36 EDT
  ...Here is the fix that is prescribed: " Some VW cars have a mass air flow sensor that vibrates the potentiometer arm during extended driving...
• Re: '87 gl stereo cheap fix
  Historical mailing list - Jason Kirk
  Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:40:36 -0800
  ...the idea is to wire in a potentiometer between the > >> speaker plugs and an 1/8" audio jack. that way i can plug in...
• Re: Coolant resistance thru coolant level probe
  Historical mailing list - patrick paul clerkin
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 03:22:00 -0500
  ...I adjusted various potentiometers which I had attached to the > > connector for the level sensor probe until I found that the circuit > > triggered at...
• Re: looking for technical assistance in Wisconsin or Michigan/UP
  Historical mailing list - Aerowolf
  Wed, 8 Sep 2004 04:42:04 -0500
  ...Intermittent Vanagon syndrome is caused by either an AFM potentiometer that gets into a resonance pattern that breaks the connection (and thus forces the...
• Re: Aftermarket Cruise questions . . .
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:24:00 -0400
  ...The surging is an adjustment that is done by locating the two potentiometers on the side of the "box" My box was a funky...
• Re: AFM track cleaning wisdom
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"
  Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:58:38 -0700
  ...That's probably a bit gummy for a AFM potentiometer, but there may be some other cleaner/preservative I can put on the track...
• Re: Was Insurance now iPhones relating to Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:24:31 -0700
  ...hearing. > > Currently the entire amp is behind the dash, including the potentiometer. Volume is controlled through the phone, though I may consider moving the...
• Re: [Diesel-Vanagon] Re: Oil temp gauges, choices? Using water temp sender + gauge?
  Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
  Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:17:47 -0700
  ...easiest to see when instead of the sender one used a potentiometer (variable resistance) anything around 100-200Ohm is suitable. To see if it...
• Re: Where is the AFM?
  Historical mailing list - Bess's Buddies
  Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:56:34 -0800
  ...In fact, it would start to go back down! (And here it's supposed to be a potentiometer!) This is what our bus has...
• Re: hiccuping
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Sun, 13 Jun 1999 19:35:06 -0700
  ...voltage signal back to the ECU after having passed through the potentiometer. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out...
• Re: '87 gl stereo cheap fix
  Historical mailing list - Aaron Pearson
  Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:10:41 -0700
  ...the idea is to wire in a potentiometer between the > >> speaker plugs and an 1/8" audio jack. that way i can plug in...
• Re: 1.9 automatic vanagon syndrome ??
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:26:17 -0500
  ...Between pin 4 and 3 is the Potentiometer endpoints and pin 2 is the wiper of the potentiometer that moves by the air flow...
• Re: Oil cooler questions.
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Wed, 2 Nov 2022 09:44:03 -0700
  ...thermostat in the oil cooler consists of a thermistor and a potentiometer. The thermistor is mounted in the top of the oil cooler near...
• Re: Where is the AFM?
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Wed, 19 Dec 2001 07:57:01 -0800
  ...In fact, it would start to go back > down! (And here it's supposed to be a potentiometer!) This is what our bus > has...
• Re: Was Insurance now iPhones relating to Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Ned Savoie
  Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:45:55 -0400
  ...hearing. > > > > Currently the entire amp is behind the dash, including the > potentiometer. Volume is controlled through the phone, though I may > consider moving the...
• Re: Help! Hesitation on the road!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:39:53 -0400
  ...Some air-flow meters may experience a vibration resonance of the metering potentiometer wiper during extended constant driving. This resonance causes the air-flow...
• Re: [Diesel-Vanagon] Re: Oil temp gauges, choices? Using water temp sender + gauge?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400
  ...easiest to see when instead of the sender one used a potentiometer (variable resistance) anything around 100-200Ohm is suitable. To see if it...
• Re: variable speed blower fan
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:39:10 -0700
  ...My controllers have similar remote potentiometers. I have tried to installed the pots in a spare stock switch plate, slightly modified for the pot...
• Re: Solenoid-operated manual shifter?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:10:24 -0800
  ...Left paddle being more of a potentiometer than button so that you can control how fast the clutch goes on. The right button being...
• Re: Coolant resistance thru coolant level probe
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 08:14:20 -0500
  ...I adjusted various potentiometers which I had attached to the > > connector for the level sensor probe until I found that the circuit > > triggered at...
• Re: More 89 Bluestar questions
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:54:20 -0500
  ...The black plastic lid on the air box potentiometer has clearly been off for reasons I do not know but it must be in...
• Re: Help! Hesitation on the road!
  Historical mailing list - David Vickery
  Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:05:37 -0700
  ...Some air-flow meters > may experience a > vibration resonance of the metering potentiometer wiper > during extended > constant driving. This resonance causes the air-flow...
• Re: Vgon syndrome on 1.9 WBX
  Historical mailing list - zampano
  Tue, 13 May 2003 22:18:58 -0700
  ...While it idles, the potentiometer >> arm >> vibrates, when I open the throttle, it gets steady again. >> >> I'll keep you all posted on what...
• Re: AFM track cleaning wisdom
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:41:16 -0700
  ...That's probably a bit gummy for a AFM potentiometer, |but there may be some other cleaner/preservative I can put on the track...
• Re: Help! Hesitation on the road!
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Luft
  Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:20:15 -0400
  ...Some air-flow meters > > may experience a > > vibration resonance of the metering potentiometer wiper > > during extended > > constant driving. This resonance causes the air-flow...
• No start; no fuel pump, no spark, etc.
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sat, 12 May 2012 21:21:35 -0700
  ...throttle body?), the Temp II sensor and the "Air Flow Sensor Potentiometer" (the AFM?). That wire grounds to the #6 terminal on the ECU...
• Re: AFM track cleaning wisdom
  Historical mailing list - A. Hurley
  Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:50:25 -0400
  ...That's probably a bit gummy for a AFM potentiometer, > |but there may be some other cleaner/preservative I can put on the track...
• Re: Coolant resistance thru coolant level probe
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:11:02 -0500
  ...I adjusted various potentiometers which I had attached to the > > > connector for the level sensor probe until I found that the circuit > > > triggered at...
• Re: AFM track cleaning wisdom
  Historical mailing list - Mary K Creasy
  Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:46:53 -0400
  ...That's probably a bit gummy for a AFM potentiometer, > |but there may be some other cleaner/preservative I can put on the track...
• Re: Coolant resistance thru coolant level probe
  Historical mailing list - Rachel Cogent
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:19:49 -0600
  ...I adjusted various potentiometers which I had attached to the >>>> connector for the level sensor probe until I found that the circuit >>>> triggered at...
• Parts Sources for the TDI Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:24:07 -0500
  ...Accelerator potentiometer. Intercooler Air mass meter and possibly air filter box. Catalytic converter. Alternator, if desired. From aftermarket sources A special left motor mount...
• Re: Doubts
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:27:16 -0500
  ...4. - Accelerator potentiometer. 5. - Intercooler 6. - Air mass meter and if it is possible the air filter box. 7. - Catalytic converter. 8. - Left engine...
• Re: More 89 Bluestar questions
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:21:08 -0500
  ...The black plastic lid on > the air box potentiometer has clearly been off for reasons I do not know but > it must be in...
• Pressure Regulator/FI problems
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Gilbert
  Thu, 26 Aug 1999 05:40:59 GMT
  ...idle stablizer. #5 - injectors #8b - second test for intake air sensor potentiometer (kinda want to assume AFM works fine because its pretty damn new...
• Re: Fwd: Re: ECU Testing
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:39:08 -0400
  ...The AFM is itself a potentiometer, that is a voltage divider where a variable wiper moves along a fixed resistance, dividing it into two...
• Fwd: Vgon syndrome on 1.9 WBX
  Historical mailing list - zampano
  Wed, 14 May 2003 03:04:59 -0700
  ...While it idles, the potentiometer >>>>> arm >>>>> vibrates, when I open the throttle, it gets steady again. >>>>> >>>>> I'll keep you all posted on what...
• Re: AFM track cleaning wisdom
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:36:14 -0700
  ...That's probably a bit gummy for a AFM potentiometer, >> |but there may be some other cleaner/preservative I can put on the track...
• Vanagon Power loss Misfiring or Hesitation testing
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:29:33 -0800
  ...Air Flow Sensor Air flap binding and potentiometer within specifications, refer to microfiche or Digifant I & II ProTraining manual page 18. Added note: Even...
• Re: Vanagon Dirvability
  Historical mailing list - bob tickle
  Mon, 14 Oct 1996 20:23:46 -0400
  ...Air Flow Sensor Air flap binding and potentiometer within specifications, refer to microfiche or Digifant I & II ProTraining manual page 18. Added note: Even...
• Re: The "Other" Vanagon Syndrome, Part II
  Historical mailing list - tom ring
  Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:45:51 -0600
  ...It is a fairly interesting version of a variable resistor, commonly called a potentiometer or "pot", with an airflow measuring door and a spring...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:56:49 -0800
  ...In stock form the PWM control was very sensitive, but after swapping a potentiometer matched to the range I needed it works quite well...
• Re: Westy water tank level indicator problem
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 8 Jul 2014 21:39:55 -0400
  >1) You can test the input with a potentiometer and voltmeter. Input >lead is biased to B+ with one megohm, electrodes ground out >successive...
• rich bad mileage syndrome miss stall
  Historical mailing list - zampano
  Thu, 29 May 2003 01:29:54 -0700
  ...While it idles, the potentiometer >>>>> arm >>>>> vibrates, when I open the throttle, it gets steady again. >>>>> >>>>> I'll keep you all posted on what...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Brett Ne
  Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:26:51 -0800
  ...In stock form the PWM control was very sensitive, > but after swapping a potentiometer matched to the range I needed it works > quite well...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:24:11 -0600
  ...In stock form the PWM control was very sensitive, >> but after swapping a potentiometer matched to the range I needed it works >> quite well...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:45:37 -0800
  ...In stock form the PWM control was very >> sensitive, but after swapping a potentiometer matched to the range I needed >> it works quite well...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Brett Ne
  Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:49:07 -0800
  ...In stock form the PWM control was very >>> sensitive, >>> but after swapping a potentiometer matched to the range I needed it works >>> quite well...