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• Re: Friday - Echo! Echo! The old deadbeat on the bus routine once again .......... not exactly.
  Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
  Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:22:47 -0700
  ...Then talk to interested parties coming from the VW dealer having just priced a EuroVan Westy at 45K+, and choked.
• friday poem /f
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 29 Mar 1996 06:59:26 -0800 (PST)
  ...you poison the lungs of the innocent, your din dithers the peaceful, and on choked roads hundreds must daily die by chance-medley. Nimble...
• Re: 2.1 wbxer stubblin' idle
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:03:07 -0700
  ...2.1 wbxer stubblin' idle > > Yesterday I had a great running van. > Today low on power, idle is weak and chokes until hi revs...
• Re: stucco's mail kills my eudora
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:38:12 -0500
  ...Interesting -- so it's the MAC version of Eudora that chokes on Winmail.dat. I just checked their website and found no mentions of...
• Re: Built-in Fire Extinguishers
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:14:31 -0700
  ...Maybe with one of > those long choke cables you can get at the FLAPS to trigger it from the > driver's seat? Betcha could...
• Re: Non-VC, TDI TriStar weekend report!
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 25 May 2004 14:05:34 -0400
  ...The coax between the tuner and antenna is going to radiate pretty strongly, especially if you don't have a choke or balun to...
• Re: rear heater valve
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:28:06 -0400
  ...Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:36:06 -0400 > >I was thinking the same thing, and went so far as to buy a long choke...
• Re: 1.9l Wasserboxer stumble...
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:54:10 +0100
  ...The engine is carb'ed, and it has an xtremely annoing off idle stumble - Noticable when cold (under choke) and irritating when hot! I...
• Re: Auto tranny cooler partnumber=087409061C
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:49:30 -0700
  ...to refill the cooling system when it overheated (which, with a choked radiator, it did a lot). I chose to replace it. -- John Bange...
• Re: audio tach
  Historical mailing list - Robert L. Armitage
  Sun, 9 Apr 1995 23:31:37 -0400 (EDT)
  ...The radio shack choke silenced the racket. (Of course, you COULD retrofit a diesel engine and do away with all that high tension system...
• Re: Help
  Historical mailing list - David Greenland
  Thu, 2 Dec 1999 14:37:37 -0800
  ...When > attempting to accelerate, it feels as if the gas is being choked off, > yet if put in neutral the motor can be easily...
• Re: fuel filter 85gl
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:23:01 -0800
  ...and heard a pop from the back, almost as if > it choked, but it came back after letting up on the gas a bit...
• Replacing Fuel Valve Cable
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 19 Jul 1995 21:41:28 -0700 (PDT)
  ...The same procedure can be applied to the choke cable, if you have one. New cables (choke and reserve valve) are available from Wolfsburg...
• 93 EuroVan MV for sale in Minneapolis & St. Paul papers
  Historical mailing list - Steven J. Hughes
  Wed, 29 May 96 21:04:43 -0500
  ...It's just really, really sad that Deborah doesn't want to be a two van family....<sob!>..<choke!>.... ;-) -Steve 87 Westie 93 Eurovan...
• OT- Animated Radar Image of Columbia Disaster
  Historical mailing list - Tom Forhan
  Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:26:18 -0800
  ...If that makes you choke, but you are curious, here is one frame at the NWS site: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/radar...
• Re: Seat Belts
  Historical mailing list - Jay Roth
  Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:39:35 -0600
  ...Although I'm 6'3", I got the trick from a short person who always had a seat belt "choke them." Love, Light & Laughter...
• Re: Conduit for throttle cable
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:22:46 -0400
  Old fashioned choke cable housing from a FLAPS might do it, but you might need to snip the engine end off your cable and...
• Re: Vanagon Won't Start When Warm
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:26:22 -0800
  ...I started to notice > that it has been running rich, almost like the choke is always on. Now, it > has started this game of...
• Price Help: <choke!> Selling my '87 Westie <sob!>
  Historical mailing list - Steve Hughes
  Tue, 4 May 1999 19:21:36 -0500
  Hi Guys, Between the house, the wife, the 18 month old daughter, and the farm, there is just no hope of that cross country...
• Re: diesel vanagon owners - cold start knob -
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:46:08 -0600
  ...i thought it could be some goofy cold start knob manual choke as > the van has both engine and tranny block heaters as well...
• Re: Low Power at Cold Start
  Historical mailing list - Barbara Sutton
  Sun, 7 Sep 1997 11:54:44 -0700
  ...Muir has to say about this) I have disconnected the automatic choke in my '66 kombi(so it doesn't run rich, not even...
• Re: While were talking mixture
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:20:40 -0400
  ...While were talking mixture I know when the Digifant system is in the warm-up cycle that, just like the carb models with chokes...
• Re: Bumbler Stickers
  Historical mailing list - pensioner
  Tue, 21 May 2002 08:13:33 -0700
  ...I don't read in traffic, choke chickens, apply makeup, or set the cruise while I go back to brew up. some of my...
• Re: SALTWATER FUEL-wood burning vehicles of ww2
  Historical mailing list - Paul N. Oliver
  Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:34:31 -0600
  ...vehicles that the germans came up with in >> WW2? >> They basically choked down a woodfire until it gave off ignitable gas >> vapors >> and plumbed...
• Choke! *&% Gasp! $162 EV Repair manual?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 07 May 1996 18:25:36 GMT
  Well, after being stranded once in Alabama and being stuck for 3 hours because of lack of a diagram showing how the serpentine belt...
• Re: Haunting/Hunting idle
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:09:56 -0500
  ...In a sense it's abit like a choke on carbureted engines, which adds more fuel to keep the engine running when cold. Except...
• Re: Cold Air Intake
  Historical mailing list - Raymond Markett
  Sun, 29 Mar 2015 18:31:11 -0700
  ...Eyeballing the WBX intake tract makes me think the throttle body is the choke point. Raymond Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2015...
• Re: 1982 Diesel Engine starts slow after fluid changes...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 6 May 2009 22:45:22 -0400
  ...I follow the usual pre-glow/choke procedure that always worked fine before when starting. Anyone have a clue what's up? How to...
• Re: Vanagon Chokes When Feeding Gas! (film at eleven)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 13 Jul 94 11:33:05 PDT
  Hum... Maybe I am wrong. I thought I saw from the Bently book that the little vent hose goes from the neck of the...
• Fear of Water ...
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Wed, 10 Jul 96 17:28:21 CDT
  ...and when you get halfway under the bus, they'll drop down on you and coil around you and choke you to death!!!!! :) ... but...
• Re: Loctite
  Historical mailing list - Brent Weide
  Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:28:50 -0700
  ...Loctite® Purple Threadlocker 222 Low strength up to 1⁄4" (6 mm) screws Carburetors, relay locks, headlamps, throttle body assembly, choke assembly and fuel...
• Re: Solex Parts
  Historical mailing list - Mark A Thomas
  Tue, 27 Sep 1994 22:31:39 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Also, the idle shut-off switch and the automatic choke, if you use it. Also, I recently bought locally a barrel nut that you...
• Re: Engine balancing
  Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
  Thu, 2 Dec 1999 06:01:56 -0800
  ...Matthew Bulley My 912 Porsche will idle cold, no chokes, at less than 300 rpm. This is due to precise adjustments certainly, but could...
• Re: low oil pressure/gas in oil
  Historical mailing list - Calle Fallberg
  Mon, 10 May 2004 19:55:39 +0200
  ...The weather seems to be just a little too cool which makes the choke ( or cold start pumps/valves ) to be in use every...
• Re: Start-Stop Syndrome Returns [addt'l-addt'l info]
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:07:38 -0700
  ...Engine suddenly reacted like it > was starved, just choked, had to pull off the road (was in Vanagon > Syndrome?; don't know, but added...
• Re: MORE '86 F.I. probs/search for answers
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:06:26 -0400
  ...the other > contact it ran more quickly and then started to choke. Sooo, I assume that > wire (back to the ECU and such) is...
• Foot to the floor syndrome, OT a little
  Historical mailing list - Jim Cain
  Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:44:12 -0400
  ...you had to step on the accelerator once to release the choke before starting. So I had been stepping on the accelerator once before...
• Re: Eratic idle?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:10:10 -0500
  ...Works like a choke but isn't. It may even run faster than that, but the point is that if the idle rpm is...
• Re: How bad is it to have dual carbs instaed if the FI on an 84
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:53:29 -0500
  ...It can be a real problem on carbureted engines with chokes because the gas droplets from a choked engine can be huge. A FI...
• Re: new microbus from VW??
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:42:36 EDT
  ...from inside the cab...(it's kind of fun holding the choke open on cold mornings in the Dodge B200 van, right from the...
• Re: Digitool Just in Time
  Historical mailing list - Ian Cameron
  Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:34:05 -0800
  ...she drove with the choke out to have somewhere to hang her purse!)
• Re: oil pressure test guage?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:29:33 -0800
  ...a set up like this, I looked pretty hard and finally choked down the bill. Having the hose made locally is a good idea...
• Re: ISV problem
  Historical mailing list - Darren
  Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:33:58 -0500
  ...Either way it would idle OK but choke under acceleration. I just borrowed a good one to try out. When I cranked the engine...
• Re: 93 Microbus arrives: Anyone have a South African ETKA?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:09:47 -0500
  ...Yours actually had a manual choke, which disappeared in US cars in early(?) '70s. pps -- I was in Wellington when SDECE sank the Rainbow...
• Re: Choked starting?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:42:51 -0500
  Turns out the hose from air filter to throttle body ?? Was off and once I put it back on and sea foamed the linkage...
• Rustoration Blitzkrieg, Day 1
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:08:29 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Also, any ideas what I should do with my choke cable? I'm thinking of using it for a secret gas or fuel cutoff...
• Re: Polutions Producers
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 12 Jul 1996 08:15:27 -0800
  ...ago about some >type of experimental filter being developed in smog-choked Los Angeles which >straps onto the radiator and somehow cleans the air...
• Re: O2 Sensor Problem - Last Week
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 5 May 2009 18:38:26 -0400
  ...It will pump six gpm at zero head, but the faucet chokes it so the delivery is about the same as the original pump...
• Coldstart trouble???
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:47:58 -0400
  ...It seems like it is running with the choke on. If I engine brake coming up to a stop there is lots of poping...
• cold start skipping
  Historical mailing list - Dave Lindemann
  Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:47:28 -0800
  ...The skip almost seems like it could be some type of choke control. My other thought is that the fuel compression is compromised by...
• Idle Speed Adjustment - Again!!
  Historical mailing list - John H. Rodgers
  Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:46:00 -0500
  ...the gas pedal, sort of like a carburetor type when the choke is not adjusted properly for a cold morning, and the accelerator pump...
• Diff. b/t CA and Federal?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Edwards
  Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:18:29 -0700
  ...How can I test the cold-start valve and the thermo-time switch? It starts up fine, seems to "choke up", then dies...once...
• (Spam rating 6/10) Re: Yesterday's Engine Fire in Rockefeller Center NYC
  Historical mailing list - Owen
  Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:37:19 -0600
  ...by an old fashioned > cable like used to be sold for choke control on pickups, old cars, and > tractors? Discover a fire, pull the...
• Replacing Thermostat... and gas mileage
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Mon, 7 Sep 2015 18:49:39 -0600
  ...I would assume it's kind of like a choke on old carborated engines, but not too sure. It seems like I've been...
• Vanagon Chokes When Feeding Gas! (film at eleven)
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Wed, 13 Jul 94 09:10:59 CDT
  the 'vent tube' that i was talking about is a big thingie, about the size of your little finger, that runs along side the...
• Notification: message ignored (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Tue, 12 Jul 1994 12:24:40 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Oh, by the way, my vanagon not only chokes but also, coughs, hickups and from time to time got some fever. How do you...
• Re: Why are the lifters so hard?
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:25:25 -0400
  Mobil-1, if you don't choke on the cost, does a good job at cleaning sludge and varnish out of the engine over...
• Re: Air Intake Project
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Sun, 27 May 2001 13:32:41 -0500
  ...and you start adding flappers, elbows, and butterflies, the path become choked, regardless how you look at it. So in theory, I ain't...
• Re: Intake air flow, improvement possible?
  Historical mailing list - Bostig Engineering
  Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:58:43 -0800
  ...than for a stock engine, because there is more potential still choked up by the restrictive intake, and inacurate air metering. Thanks, Jim Akiba...
• Fw: Westy stalled/wont start
  Historical mailing list - Karen Olson
  Wed, 25 Mar 1998 11:07:09 -0500
  ...metal door stuck in the closed position > preventing air like a choke plate on a carberator. It wouldn't start > either and seemed to...