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• Re: High Altitude Start Problem
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:26:33 -0800
  ...One time it took numerous tries (and a battery jump) after 4 hours in Park City, UT to get it started. When I got...
• Re: Starter won't engage ring gear when sit for a while
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 8 Sep 2007 11:02:09 -0400
  ...Starter won't engage ring gear when sit for a while At 07:59 AM 9/7/2007, Dennis Haynes wrote... >The gear is...
• Re: Starter motor do-it-yourself rebuild
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:54:36 -0600
  ...It's very frustrating. > Maybe the diesel starter is that different from the 2.1 starter? > Maybe it's just me? At any rate...
• Re: Normal voltage of a battery at rest?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:26:37 -0400
  ...At 12.38 very hesitant??? As per usual, thanks Hard-start relay helps the solenoid engage properly. If it starts poorly from the ignition...
• Advice please
  Historical mailing list - Brian Dipert
  Fri, 29 Aug 2003 19:00:40 -0700
  ...She wouldn't start. Let her cool down for an hour; no luck. Banged on the starter with a hammer....no luck. Towed to...
• installing a new Hitachi starter
  Historical mailing list - Matt Barclay
  Thu, 26 May 2005 14:10:12 -0700
  Hi Rob, It took me two hours to get the new starter installed. Pretty much a straight swap. The wire from the alternator just...
• Auxillary batter - isolation device
  Historical mailing list - Tom Moritz
  Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:12:51 -0400
  I know that there has been extensive dialog about auxillary batteries and methods of isolating the aux battery from the starting battery but I...
• Re: <syncro> starter differences
  Historical mailing list - PAT
  Wed, 27 May 1998 01:20:37 -0400
  ...Re: <syncro> starter differences >Tim Smith wrote: > >> Syncro starter is same BUT the solenoid is different!! Enough that a 2WD >> one WILL NOT FIT...
• Re: Fridge Switch Position
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:31:31 -0700
  ...If the fridge had run overnight on 12 v and connected to your starter battery you definitely would not have been able to start...
• HELP, won't start now and then!
  Historical mailing list - HP
  Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:43:35 -0700
  ...Sometimes it won't start, most times it does. When it doesn't, it turns over, fuel pump works but it just isn't...
• HOW TO GROUND STARTER MOTOR?
  Historical mailing list - Peter Krogh
  Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:31:48 EDT
  And don't say "Started motor Grinder" Hey list. Sorry for the question that is covered in the archives, but I'm using a...
• Re: costs of syncro tranny R&R
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:03:19 -0700
  ...Don't forget replacing the starter bushing. If it was me, I would be push starting the van until I could get the starter...
• Running rich and flooding
  Historical mailing list - Bob O'Shaughnessy
  Mon, 12 May 97 21:56:03 -0400
  ...My 84 just started running rich and flooding in a horrible way. I wasn't really worried at first, as it just showed up...
• Re: Slow starting when hot
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 22 May 1997 20:12:25 +0100
  ...I did the "Starter solenoid fix" as documented in the archives and behaviour was better, but not perfect. I suppose I'll have to...
• re:no start/road trip--solved
  Historical mailing list - Philip Menchions
  Thu, 29 May 1997 08:44:14 -0230 (NDT)
  ...was clamped down that it decided to start up at that moment! So Franz unwittingly added to his mystique :) Strange thing was his underling...
• Re: She won't start...:(
  Historical mailing list - Carter
  Mon, 2 Mar 1998 06:00:44 -0800
  If anyone can tell me where to begin...While attempting to start, she coughed and started for just a couple of seconds and that...
• Re: starting engine w/out tranny fluid
  Historical mailing list - Daryl Christensen
  Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:15:28 -0800
  ...Will I harm the tranny (manual 4 speed 091) if I start the engine without fluid in the tranny? Of course I will keep...
• Re: optima the one for starting battery?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Geiser
  Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:53:33 -0500
  ...battery last weekend >($170), & read the instructions, yellow top batteries are listed as deep >cycle & starting batteries. If you want to use it for...
• Re: Question about testing O2 sensor with digital meter
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:28:04 -0400
  ...Both the ALH and the earlier AHU have cold start injectors. Not quite the same as a gas cold start valve, but similar.
• Re: Short Question
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 11 May 2010 19:43:08 -0400
  ...Was fine last nite and this morning I started van and noticed low >battery, but stereo eventually started breaking up and eventually I turned...
• cranky when wet
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Poole
  Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:32:20 -0500
  Howdy List, I've got an 83 air cooled vanagon that runs great but occasionally starts roughly when wet. If it sits for a...
• Re: Trouble coming my way? Starter delay
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:54:26 -0600
  ...Usually caused by the ignition switch >>circuit not supplying enough current to activate the solenoid. >> The starter itself is usually OK. A *hard start...
• '85 Westy Heater Booster Won't Shut Off
  Historical mailing list - MMunn
  Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:19:42 -0800
  Started my '85 Westy today and the heater booster started also! I hadn't touched the Tempertaure Regulating Switch in months, so I was...
• Re: No Start!
  Historical mailing list - sleepingmonkey1
  Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:50:44 -0400
  ...No Start! > Hello, > > After working on installing a new radio in my 88 Vanagon today the van > will not start. It cranks over fine...
• Kill Switch Delay - any electronics experts?
  Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
  Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:53:23 -0400
  ...Normal starting procedure would be: start car, push button. engine runs until you switch ignition off. Thief's procedure: start car, engine runs for...
• Odd ignition issue
  Historical mailing list - Jarrett Anthony Kupcinski
  Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:55:18 -0500
  For the second (or possibly third) time in the past week I went to start up the van and when I turned the key...
• Re: '91 Vanagon Multivan - hard to start
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:54:03 -0700
  ...Next time it's reluctant to start, stop cranking before it starts and go have a sniff at the tailpipe. You may find that...
• Re: battery cable contact problem
  Historical mailing list - Bob Norman
  Wed, 19 May 1999 22:51:46 -0230
  Darie, The problem with my vanagon starter turned out to be bad contacts in the solenoid. The ground wire fix didn't solve this...
• Re: Need help with hard start after stop
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:57:45 -0400
  Leaking injectors can also cause hard start problems as the engine can be flooded after a short shut down. Testing fuel pressure during strt...
• Vanagon puzzler solved! (?)
  Historical mailing list - TBill
  Fri, 22 Aug 1997 01:18:19 -0700
  ...Van starts normally when cold. 2. When hot, just cranks, no firing. 3. Sometime will start if I open throttle all the way first...
• Re: 86 cabrio advice needed
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:19:58 -0600
  ...Starts right up, drive it > a little while stop, and it will not start,,,no click, nada. Battery good, > no shorts, starter new. Sometimes...
• Re: cold start problem
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Wed, 8 May 2002 23:20:01 -0400
  What is outside air temp when you are having starting problems? I have similar problems if my van has been in the hot sun...
• Re: Dead 83.5 Westy (injector power)
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Poole
  Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:37:17 -0400
  ...If your remote starter is the type with two aligator clip connectors on it then you can connect it directly to the starter. You...
• Re: Remote Starter Switch Wire-up for '88GL
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:55:00 -0700
  re "Because once the motor starts turning on it's own, you're a long ways away from turning it off " true if ignition...
• Re: No Start & Sliding door handle'
  Historical mailing list - Laura Mangan
  Sun, 9 Jul 2017 15:48:09 -0400
  ...I have not done much for investigating my NO START situation. Yesterday, I tried to start it, just for the heck of it, and...
• Re: Bentley Starter?!
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:44:21 -0500
  ...Bentley Starter?! I am looking at the starter in the Bentley and it does not resembles the one the Vanagon is using. Especially where...
• Re: Starter related question.
  Historical mailing list - den jolliffe
  Fri, 15 Jul 2016 01:11:09 +0000
  Funny thing is..my buddy had a starter failure middle of winter a few years back on his 88 syncro...nobody said I had...
• Re: Starter related question.
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:29:32 -0600
  ...Abney wrote: > > > Things you have to remove to pull the starter: the battery > > ground(:-*), and (probably) the throttle body. At least, doing that > > makes...
• Re: oxygen sensor and alternator lights
  Historical mailing list - Dave C
  Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:53:04 -0500
  At 1:27 PM -0600 2/22/2000, HERMANN DE BOER wrote: >When I start my van both the oxygen and the alternator LEDs...
• Van is down - help!
  Historical mailing list - �ric Giroux
  Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:24:22 -0400
  ...1- I go to start it this morning: it's cranking and cranking...nothing. I depress the gas pedal, finaly it starts with HEAVY...
• Re: Installing adapter for TDI Starter on Auto trans Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:23:01 -0400
  Ben, using the wrong starter would definitely be a problem! :-) The original waterboxer upper starter/tranny bolt will fit into a recess of the...
• Re: Starter: it's one or another
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:19:55 -0700
  ...high resistance in the starter motor >>main current path, or weak starter battery. >> >>I am in agreement with David Beierl that fat copper cables...
• Re: 81 aircooled won't start when cold
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:59:27 -0600
  Is that something that Bentley forgot tomention? I've found cold start injectors on 1.9 WBXs intake plenums and scavenged then for use...
• Re: So stuff even happens to me!
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Sat, 4 Apr 2020 08:36:56 -0400
  ...If not, shake the shifter from side to side while holding the key in the start position. Your van just started? You are welcome...
• Hard starting 84 vanagon - stumped
  Historical mailing list - Brian Keese
  Tue, 2 Sep 2003 12:40:37 -0500
  ...I turn the key to start the van. The van cranks and cranks and eventually starts. Sometimes it needs to crank for up to...
• Re: Starting system quirk - diagnosis help needed
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sat, 15 Feb 2014 14:50:27 -0700
  Since you have www connection, go to the GoWesty site and look in their library for no-start problems. They list 4-5 problems...
• Re: Turn key - nada
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 26 May 2002 08:47:17 -0500
  ...Your starter is just the first of a long string of problems you're going to start imagining. However this one time ....... tell somebody...
• Re: crank, wont start
  Historical mailing list - Stan Shapiro
  Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:39:41 -0700
  Thanks to everyone for your input and help!!!! The final diagnosis and treatment---new ignition coil--and the van starts right up and runs...
• Re: WAS: Starter Motor... Failure: NOW: 50 Circuit Weirdness. ECU Related?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:53:18 -0800
  ...Like I was able to bump start the van w/o energizing that wire...... Ya I doubt it's the ECU. Bought it from...
• Re: Starter is OUT...now cant repair.
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Sun, 2 Sep 2001 22:59:15 -0700
  ...My experience with 4 rebuilt starters on a bug and '71 type II was that the rebuilts were not as good as the original...
• Re: Engine Cranks but No Start
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 1 Apr 2016 16:54:15 -0400
  ...Normally the ECU runs the pump for a couple of seconds and shuts it off unless the starter is operating or the engine is...
• Re: Dead Wipers and Heater Fans
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:45:10 -0800
  Wiring diagrams are our friend John, start with them. Trace the components on the circuit using the wiring diagram. note that the both are...
• Wont start at all now...
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:42:53 -0500
  ...If I keep my foot on the throttle and keek the key turned to start the engine almost, but doesn't quite, start. When...
• Re: Time to hammer the starter/solenoid????
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:43:08 -0700
  ...On 4/12/07, Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Went to start up the van for a perspective buyer and it tried to...
• 5+years on Rescue Tape.. Fri post
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 1 Sep 2017 08:31:15 -0700
  ...Going under tbe van to swap out the starter this morning.. though the old one is still working...Ever since I swapped in a...
• WHYit wouldn't start
  Historical mailing list - Kim G
  Mon, 7 May 2001 09:11:23 -0500
  Hi list, Here is an update on what happened with my 85gl that was running, then it decided to quit and not start again...
• Re: Starter is OUT...now cant repair.
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Mon, 3 Sep 2001 00:17:17 EDT
  ...I forgot to ask, did you remove the starter because of an intermittent no-start problem or was it totally dead? Rich
• lack of power when cold
  Historical mailing list - Dan Erlandson
  Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:33:34 -0500
  ...my wife tells me that the van has started exhibiting a new problem... what else is new... The van starts fine (when cold and...
• Temp Gauge High on Startup + Blinking Light
  Historical mailing list - Camins Bretts
  Tue, 3 May 2011 17:07:10 -0700
  ...Even if I: > Start the engine cold, or > Cycle the ECU by turning off the ignition and waiting, then wait with ignition on but...
• Re: propex heater problems
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:05:11 -0500
  Joy, does it try to ignite at all? Tick tick tick tick, if yes does it start for a few second, by start i...