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• Re: Chasing Surge
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 5 May 2002 17:50:08 -0500
  ...This morning I attempted to adjust the idle mixture. Unplugged the 02 sensor and the rpm connection for the ISV valve (again per Sir...
• ENGINE FAILURE-could be caused by too lean air-fuel mixture
  Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
  Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:26:25 -0600
  ...like that, you run the risk of too lean a fuel mixture, which could cause the pH of the oil to become corrosive and...
• Re: My poor Engine..
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Foltz
  Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:31:56 EST
  In the last Bosch FI class I took, we learned that the O2 sensor only makes fine adjustments in mixture. Very rich conditions are...
• Re: fuel mixture adjustment on 81 Vanagons (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - GMBulley
  Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:43:45 EST
  ...Nash, Assuming your Costa Rican Vans are fuel injected, there is no legitimate way to "set the mixture". In a fuel injected system, many...
• Re: 1985 Digijet Surging at idle (AFM?)
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Sun, 10 Feb 2002 09:06:14 -0500
  In my experience with my '84, surging at idle has been caused by incorrecct idle screw/mixture screw settings. Unfortunately, I do not have...
• Re: AFC Spring Adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sat, 24 Mar 2001 07:13:01 -0600
  ...The O2 sensor (in conjunction with the ECU) > ultimately determines the mixture based on the amount of O2 in the exhaust, > right? So what...
• Re: Rich mixture/excessive fuel use
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:27:01 -0400
  ...That bright green wire has a coaxial shield that's grounded -- if it shorts to the center wire you get guaranteed super-rich mixture...
• Re: Help - Red Hot Cat (meltdown?) !!!
  Historical mailing list - Jim Morgan
  Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:22:59 EDT
  A cause of over heated cat could be too rich a mixture. or a missing cylinder putting more unburned fuel into the exhaust. My...
• Re: Rich Van $$ Update
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:19:39 -0800
  ...To set the idle mixture properly: 1) Get car up to normal operating temperature. 2) Stop engine, disconnect O2 sensor and connect sensor to...
• Re: Running HOT!, help, '80
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Thu, 3 Jul 1997 07:28:34 -0700 (PDT)
  ...This confirms that I > am running lean? Or a dead O2 sensor? I turned the mixture screw 1 > 1/2 turns each way with...
• Re: What's a Backfire
  Historical mailing list - Harvey Chao
  7 Nov 1995 16:13:37 -0800
  ...In general I understand a backfire to be any instance where the mixture in the cylinder ignites and either the intake or exhaust valve...
• Re: Do I really need the Idle Stabilizer Valve?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 22 Sep 2001 12:30:59 -0500
  ...The other aspect is mixture control. On a cold start on a cold day ISV will stabilize the engine rpm until the engine is...
• Re: Calif Smog Issues
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:38:00 -0400
  ...The basic setting for the mixture is only effective near idle speed. After that, anything wrong with the mixture requires diagnosis and repair. Look...
• Re: cylinder head temp sensor
  Historical mailing list - Beth Young
  Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:20:32 -0800 (PST)
  ...available regarding > voltage readings? I'm not sure why you would want to do that. "Slightly cooler reading" = more rich mixture and you can...
• Re: Bulley website/pages and a crazy idea
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Mon, 6 Oct 2003 08:31:16 -0700
  ...Bulley website/pages and a crazy idea > > > Bill, > > The statement: > > "The Q-Pads have a mixture of other materials in it, that all > resonate...
• Re: advice on installing 72 Eberspacher BN4, into a 67 westy
  Historical mailing list - Chad Morris
  Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:51:53 -0700
  ...Just > do a goggle search. > > Bench test the heater and set the mixture for your elevation. The BN4 > heater uses a metering fuel pump...
• Re: Locating Waxoyl
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:59:14 -0600
  ...It's just a mixture of oil, wax, and turpentine or mineral spirits (there are various recipes). Search for Waxoyl recipes on the web...
• Re: Emissions testing 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 6 Mar 2004 16:13:26 -0500
  ...Rich mixture will show as excessive CO. The borderline NOX reading here indicates the catalyst is shot and or the ignition timing is too...
• Re: mileage at altitude
  Historical mailing list - William Dummitt
  Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:55:12 -0400
  ...Perhaps the vanagon AFM responds to more mass of air more than volume, and so keeps a reasonable mixture? I've never seen plug...
• Still More Friday
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:56:41 -0700
  ...To reactor #2, add ingredient eight, followed by three equal volumes of the homogenous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add ingredients nine and ten...
• Re: fuel mixture adjustment on 81 Vanagons (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Gary Shea
  Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:44:02 -0700
  ...fuel mixture adjustment on 81 Vanagons > > Mr. Walker, > > I own and operate a company in Costa Rica called Siesta Campers > (http://www.edenia.com...
• Re: My poor MPG, compression tests results
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:42:50 -0700
  ...compression > 120, plug indicates mixture is rich. > # 4 (left rear) compression > 120, plug also indicates richness. > > right left mixture asymmetry? > > -- > > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel...
• Re: '86 idle revisited and other comments (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Tue, 8 Apr 1997 17:33:24 -0700 (PDT)
  ...In > my case, the spring was weak enough that even with the idle mixture screw > backed out fully, the mixture was still too rich...
• Re: Digijet Euro ECU Tuning
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 12 Nov 2002 05:47:16 EST
  ...If you loosen the tension the idle will get smoother but the mixture richer. Bob has told me that it's better to get...
• Re: Coolant Temps
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:09:02 -0700
  ...If you mix water and ethylene glycol the freezing point of the mixture may not be somewhere between their individual freezing points but could...
• fuel/air mixture diagnostics
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:03:25 -0700
  ...I have a voltmeter attached to my oxygen sensor and it is indicating a very lean mixture. I have the air-fuel screw on...
• Re: Expansion tank leak
  Historical mailing list - Howard Fleming
  Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:03:22 -0500
  ...I have found that the coolent sensor is very sensitive to the mixture of coolent and water, too far one way or the other...
• 1.9l unstable idle -- two causes
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:10:38 -0500
  ...Replacing the O2 sensor doubled the mixture flip-flop rate and made the idle rock-steady. Lazy sensor...Ken Lewis's little meter board...
• Re: turbo?
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:34:19 -0400
  Jake de Villiers wrote: > Looks like it draws through the OEM AFM ( Is that from an Arlo Guthrie > song?) so that the mixture is...
• ENGINE FAILURE-could be caused by too lean air-fuel mixture
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:10:55 -0800
  ...ENGINE FAILURE-could be caused by too lean air-fuel mixture A machine shop here in the San Fernando Valley says that if the...
• air/fuel mixture
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:47:07 -0400
  ...O2 content of the exhaust gas and reports the air:fuel mixture ratio. While this info is cool, the Bentley does not tell us...
• Re: fuel/air mixture diagnostics
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:09:23 -0700
  ...I need to set it higher. > > I have a voltmeter attached to my oxygen sensor and it is indicating a > very lean mixture. I...
• Carb Specs?????? (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Sun, 16 Apr 1995 18:52:06 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Carb Specs?????? This may sound like a total idiot-stick question, but how does one adjust the mixture on the dual carbs found on...
• Re: Start up,back fire?
  Historical mailing list - Raceing Cajun
  Sat, 16 May 2015 13:15:54 -0500
  The rule is; "Backfire" on intake side........ "Lean mixture" induce problem. * "Backfire" on exhaust side ..... "Ignition" induced problem ! After the first backfire always check...
• Re: fwd: Re: Re.: Hot Start Phase II
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 19 Aug 94 17:14:41 EDT
  ...Joel why would either go wacko only when the engine is hot? BTW the fuel mixture was set to richest possible setting with the...
• Re: 82 now cranks but stil won't start when hot.
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:15:28 -0800
  I agree that it sounds like a fuel:air mixture problem, but I don't think you are in way over your head with...
• Re: How does the Oxy Sensor Work/ go bad?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Fri, 26 Nov 1999 18:04:43 -0800
  ...This produces a rich mixture,sensor voltage drops,computer > leans out the mixture.An endless cycle. In other words the mixture never > stabalizes at...
• Lunch with Bentley
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Mon, 21 Nov 94 14:07:08 PST
  ...First of all, what I said earlier about the throttle switch enriching the mixture was correct ONLY if you have a fuel injected bus...
• Re: AC Charge Question80
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:06:13 -0700
  the autofrost technical information (using acrobat) states that R134a is a single compound (not a mixture). It states that R134a is HFC while R12...
• 87 automatic- acceleration off idle
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:07:46 -0800
  Hi Anthony, I have an automatic, and improved my off line response by adjusting the afm spring and idle mixture. I've written about...
• Re: The dreaded AFM adjustment screw
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:25:22 -0500
  You're right about the exhaust leaks--they can send your mixture readings all over the place. Here's what I did to find...
• Re: warm up time - a contrarian's view! (longish)
  Historical mailing list - YauMan Chan
  Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:01:57 -0800
  ...During this warm-up period with wrong or fluctuating air/fuel mixture makes the vehicle basically undrivable. Bad air/fuel mixture ration can cause...
• Lanolinl for rust proofing
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:11:47 -0700
  Entity Alistair Bell spoke thus: > As an aside, I found one source stating that the much venerated "Cosmolene" > was a mixture of petroleum jelly...
• lean out adjustment on AFM
  Historical mailing list - Mike Meuser
  Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:27:55 -0700
  ...me which way to turn the adjuster on the AFM to enrichen or lean the mixture. Help appreciated? thnx Mike 83-1/2 westy
• Re: fuel-injection runs really rich in my 81 2.0 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Beth Young
  Sat, 11 Jan 1997 07:00:46 -0800 (PST)
  ...Your '81 fuel injection is not that modern in that it allows you to adjust the idle and idle mixture but, in theory, there...
• Calif Smog Issues
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:07:23 -0700
  ...At this point, it seems like the mixture is still too rich and the answer is to continue leaning it down. Agree? Question 2...
• Mike's TP switch question from digest
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:16:00 -0700
  ...If perhaps that is going through your engine, unburned, and being read by the O2 mixture meter you have, that would explain the rich...
• Re: Why does O2 sensor require heater?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:35:15 -0400
  ...If the sensor output drops off, then the computer will continue to richen the mixture until the sinal returns. If the sensor works intermiaantly...
• O2 mixture questions
  Historical mailing list - db25
  Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:38:00 EDT
  I have several questions when it comes to adjusting my mixture using the oxygen sensor. 1. Do I have to disconnect the sensor with...
• Re: '85 Cold Start Idle
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:42:25 EDT
  ...I am guessing the idle mixture is off. Is it too rich or too lean? It straightens out after a few minutes, but I...
• Re: rough running
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:09:03 -0400
  ...Once inside, you can move the wheel with the gear teeth backwards or forwards to richen or lean out the mixture. This wheel tightens...
• Re: 87' syncro runs rough when cold
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:21:56 -0700
  ...If it sees some (O2 sensor voltage < .45v) then the computer will attempt to enrich the mixture to compensate. If all is perfect, then...
• Re: Mileage at altitude - responses/experiences requested
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:32:55 -0700
  ...There may be >some automatic mixture adjustment built into the F/I but it is probably small >and the limits are reached very quickly...
• Re: Help! Hesitation on the road!
  Historical mailing list - ed donnen
  Tue, 9 Aug 2011 11:16:16 -0400
  ...find vacuum leaks? ed Steven Johnson wrote: > I would add to this vacuum leaks which equate to potential overheating and > incorrect > air/fuel mixture. >
• Re: EXTREME DANGER (was: Aluma-Seal Confessions)
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Tue, 26 Sep 95 16:51:48 EDT
  ...And the fact that rust is 25% the mixture by weight gives it a great Vanagon-list spin. B.
• Re: missing
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:53:08 -0600
  ...why a lean mixture makes it run hotter? Not sure why but offer that often race cars blow motors simply by running out of...
• Re: Tyres and nitrogen
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:45:14 -0400
  ...I fill mine with a 78% nitrogen mixture.... On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 06:58 PM, Bob Bolton wrote: > Hi. Reading all of...
• Re: Cat Bypass Pipe "pros & cons"
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:32:18 -0400
  ...The DJ code engine liked it. >No O2 sensor use by ECU in that one and I only used it monitor fuel >mixture. I...
• Re: O2 sensors, setting air mixture
  Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
  Mon, 21 Nov 1994 12:25:51 CST6CDT
  ...So, you may enrichen your mixture far beyond specs without seeing a resultant change in tailpipe CO emissions. Incidentally, I've had bad luck...
• Re: water injection
  Historical mailing list - Alexis Montanez
  Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:38:08 -0500 (CDT)
  ...and it uses a 20% > > alcohol mixture. I plan to install one in my bus as soon as I get the > > chance. I used...