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• Re: 86 Vanagon Digifant stalling!
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:27:40 -0500
  ...With a carburated vehicle it would be a matter of adjusting the choke, is there an equivalent setting on the digifant fuel injection ? Maurizio...
• Re: Fake campers, etc.
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:42:18 -0800
  The ad sounds like a passenger van owner who's slightly bemused (*choke*) by the drastic difference between passenger Vanagon and Westy resale values...
• Honest Bay Area Mechanics?
  Historical mailing list - Peter&Varshna
  Sat, 2 Dec 1995 12:54:40 -0600 (CST)
  ...She described the symptoms to me over the phone and from all I can tell she has a stuck choke, but seeing how she...
• Re: registering Matilda in Canada
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:42:57 -0700
  ...The guys I dealt with at the border, long time border guards, were choked with Homeland Security for dumping extra work on them without...
• Re: battery opinions please
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:25:47 -0500
  ...Thing I would go AC Delco (choke), Interstate or Exide. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf...
• Re: 2.1 wbxer stubblin' idle
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:19:17 -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: dumb dumb blue paper shop towel in crankcase ..duh
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:30:23 -0700
  ...onto any > critial areas > do ya think the oil pump would choke > or does the oil splash around on the bottom of the crankcase...
• Re: Diesel question
  Historical mailing list - Robin Oomkes
  Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:17:22 +0200
  ...This acts like a 'choke' on older gasoline cars (but instead of richening the mixture, it adjusts the diesel injection timespot a little earlier...
• Idle Stabilizer fix?
  Historical mailing list - Ed McLean
  Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:00:17 -0700
  ...I've unplugged the idle stabilizer and the engine now idles smoothly at 800 rpm but it chokes with the air conditioning on. When...
• Re: More Syncro DIff-lock Questions
  Historical mailing list - L&A Johnson
  Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:28:45 -0500
  ...Is > it > possible to hook up a manual (choke like) cable to the diff-lock unit ?? The plunger needs to be pushed to engage...
• Re: 2.1 wbxer stubblin' idle
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:12:17 -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...
• hard starting when warm('71 westy)
  Historical mailing list - matt weasner
  Sun, 11 Aug 1996 14:21:51 -0700
  ...Also, the choke seems to be functioning properly. Those were my two best guesses. Any sugestions? Thanks again, Matt mweasner@frontiernet.net '71 westy...
• Re: 82 Diesel Westy Problem
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:55:47 PDT
  ...It's a new battery, I am >> using the choke, the glow plugs are warmed.. > >(ed...) > >This maybe completely off the wall but I...
• RE: Amp output for 1600 generator?
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:46:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...But if you have it running along with the headlights, windshield wipers, electric choke, interior dome lights for hardy partiers, Portable TV, and that...
• Re: Help: Vanagon Cruise Control
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:39:26, -0500
  ...Attach a choke cable control to dash and mount other end thru floor and back up between gas pedal mount and bracket for slotted...
• Re: 85 Vanagon starts hard
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Thu, 06 Apr 95 22:04:18 CDT
  ...it sounds to me like the computer is NOT adding the necessary extra gas to "choke" the car when cold ... so the engine runs...
• Re: Alternative Instrumentation
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 18 Apr 1996 18:00:58 -0800
  ...do we make it do a fuel adjustment or maybe a >choke adjustment? What are our intentions here? You mentioned a wheel >rev sensor...
• Re: window gasket
  Historical mailing list - Yoshi
  Sun, 31 Oct 1999 09:44:00 +0900
  ...The bottom part of the rubber is choked with the mud. You must remove them with the toothbrush. 3) Prepare the "lubricating oil(CRC...
• Re: 84 vanagon stalling
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:00:42 -0800
  ...it fires up > like a champ, idles, and then drives for awhile until > it decides to choke, gurgle, or stall. then it won't...
• Re: Loctite
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 Oct 2018 16:16:47 +0000
  ...Loctite® Purple Threadlocker 222 Low strength up to 1⁄4" (6 mm) screws Carburetors, relay locks, headlamps, throttle body assembly, choke assembly and fuel...
• WTB: Complete Fuel injection system for 1982 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:43:27 -0400
  ...The lack of choke on the webers makes cold starts awkward starting in November and they get to be a serious PITA from December...
• Re: LVC: TDI Problem
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:30:23 -0400
  ...gas recirculation and after a few years, the inlet can become choked with carbon and power drops off.? The car will feel sluggish.??? Remove...
• Subject: Re: Emissions Testing, passed! (third time's a charm)
  Historical mailing list - DSTEVENS
  Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:51:34 -0400
  One method is to install a manual type choke cable to turn the dist. body manually (pull out to start push in once warm...
• Re: 1.9l Wasserboxer stumble...
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:59:03 -0500
  ...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: (Spam rating 6/10) Re: Yesterday's Engine Fire in Rockefeller Center NYC
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:06:53 -0800
  ...by an old >fashioned > > cable like used to be sold for choke control on pickups, old cars, and > > tractors? Discover a fire, pull the...
• Re: SALTWATER FUEL-wood burning vehicles of ww2
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:23:03 -0800
  ...vehicles that the germans came up with > in > > > WW2? > > > > They basically choked down a woodfire until it gave off ignitable > gas > > > > vapors > > > > and plumbed...
• Re: Rainy Day Blues, HELP!
  Historical mailing list - ERIC ZENO
  Thu, 1 Aug 1996 23:16:45 -0400 (EDT)
  ...It will idle > very roughly, but when you give it gas you can here what sounds like a > flapper valve shutting and it chokes...
• choking conversion
  Historical mailing list - Jessup Coffin
  Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:16:12 -0500
  ...It actually seemed to choke and die. I have since checked the fuel pump, it works, the fuel lines have been pulled and cleaned...
• Re: Help! My New Van has the Intermittent syndrome!
  Historical mailing list - Douglas L. Urner
  Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:04:50 -0700
  ...dyno system and once it hit 60mph the engine started to choke and lost power as if it went from 4 cylinders to 3...
• Re: 125 HP Wasserboxer Ghia
  Historical mailing list - Tom Forhan
  19 Dec 1995 09:28:09 EST
  ...The engine is topped off with a pair of Dellorto 45 >DRLA twin-choke carbs, a Bosch 009 centrifugal advance distributor >and a Bosch...
• Re: old songs with buses...
  Historical mailing list - Ken Herman
  Sat, 17 Oct 1998 21:58:30 EDT
  ...The interstates choked with nomadic hordes in Volkswagen vans with full running boards dragging great anchors Followin' dead-end signs into the sores The...
• Engine Gas Lines/injectors Done, Still Stuttering!
  Historical mailing list - mad madeline
  Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:27:48 -0700
  ...Almost like it is over choked. Never had this problem on a vanagon before. Tried disconnecting the ox. sensor and that does not really...
• Re: [Syncro] rescue a SyncroSUNROOF from the crusher, RESCUED!!!??
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:53:30 -0800
  ...I about choked on > my beer. 411/412 models indeed. > > Mark > > Old Volks Home wrote: > > > Chris - > > > > I feel the same way as you. ......... > > > > When...
• air cooled starting problem (74 BUS)
  Historical mailing list - andrew swingler
  Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:21:22 -0800
  ...appears to have a fuel delivery problem. > Symptoms: > Van warm > Automatic Choke flaps open > Turn the starter, Van starts and runs for 20 seconds...
• air cooled starting problem (74 BUS)
  Historical mailing list - andrew swingler
  Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:21:40 -0800
  ...Van warm Automatic Choke flaps open Turn the starter, Van starts and runs for 20 seconds or so. Van dies and does not start...
• air cooled starting problem (74 BUS)
  Historical mailing list - andrew swingler
  Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:14:58 -0800
  ...Van warm Automatic Choke flaps open Turn the starter, Van starts and runs for 20 seconds or so. Van dies and does not start...
• Re: this has me rethinking dexcool
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:50:02 -0400
  ...Oh, let's also vent some exhaust to the choke stove so it knows when to open. The early VW Rabbit motors had water...
• Re: hydrogen
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Sun, 6 May 2001 10:36:15 -0700
  ...be savaging the last un touched > reserves of oil while we choke to death just to keep the decendants of the bush clan happy...
• Re: The WORST Looking Muffler Repair!
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:48:44 -0800
  ...At least I got to use my BFH (read > choked up on sledge) to bash the end straighter. > > Neil. > > -- > Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2...
• 73 (pancake motor) twin carbs and smog parts for sale
  Historical mailing list - Robb Lightfoot
  Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:39:55 -0700
  ...These carbs are stock, but they have been "messed with" in that they have had the electric chokes removed and a manual (makeshift) linkage...
• bad acceleration / fuel injection??
  Historical mailing list - Scott Longing
  Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:41:02 -0400
  ...throttle cable is in good shape, wide open but something is choked. 4) does not seem electrical because it seems to be struggling, not...
• FFFrIdAy FFFFoLlIeS ...
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Thu, 21 Mar 96 23:08:18 CST
  ...range, The gear box gets no end of a change, Carburettors choke and cough, The lights go on and the lights go off, Tyres...
• HELP - The Volkswagen Lawyers are after me! - HELP
  Historical mailing list - Jason Leigh
  Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:14:49 -0500
  ...If you don't choke on coughing up all this BS, you might get a little cash out of the deal and "The MAN...
• Re: Poor Hot Start Discovery - midway through solution
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:27:55 -0500
  ...On some carburetor engines with a choke linked to the fuel linkage, a single depression was required to set the choke properly. On earlier...
• Re: bus boys non 800 number
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 4 Jun 1996 00:23:11 -0400
  ...We each take about 15 minutes to grab a bite at the local choke and puke. Bill's outa there at about 6:30PM...
• Re: Choked starting?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:45:03 -0500
  Btw...hose clamp seems useless due to cramped bend that u have to make in the big hose from the air filter to the...
• Re: ammeter question
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:24:20 -0700
  ...to operate the ammeter it would > perhaps act much like a choke in a normal electrical circuit. > Any field offers resistance to current flow...
• Diesel na is breathing coolant
  Historical mailing list - Frank Lee
  Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:01:26 -0500
  ...On a short drive down the Baltimore 83 Expressway she choked and died, from breathing coolant sprayed and vacuumed into the air intake. The...
• temp II sensor (syncro)
  Historical mailing list - Jason Willenbrock
  Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:53:05 -0400
  ...while, 7 minutes, it starts to run bad, engine starts to choke, spits some black smoke, back fires then stalls.  mixture may be...
• Re: Cold start 3 cylinder stalling and bucking idle insanity!!!
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:15:07 -0500
  Don't give up, he he he. Choke is not fully close....hi hi hi, sorry, i had to say this one. Mmmm..... Can...
• Kellen, It's yer aux heater knob that's missing...
  Historical mailing list - Chris Dixon
  Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:23:24 EST
  ...Maybe somebody put on a manual choke and a carbueretor. Chris Dixon
• Engine Stutters, Tach Nosedives... The saga continues.
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:54:43 -0500
  ...It wouldn't choke out at idle, but as soon as the tach crested 2K the problem came back with a vengeance. I was...
• Re: Cough, Choke, Splutter! - Update
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:56:12 -0500
  ...Cough, Choke, Splutter! - Update >Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:20:00 +0000 > >A few weeks ago I reported that my '87 Westy was...
• Re: vanagon blues
  Historical mailing list - Jose Rosado
  Tue, 2 Dec 1997 20:25:15 -0800
  ...1) Bad gas 2) Bad fuel pump 3) Choke need to be readjusted. Good luck. ---------- > From: Kirk Bennett (by way of Ron Lussier <coyote...
• Re: Lack of power on my 87 Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Don McCallum
  Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:19:50 +0100
  ...The automatic choke may not be going off properly. 3. Fuel pump is not keeping up with demands In the first two, I would...
• Re: Engine Problem
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 21 Mar 1990 09:03:01 -0500
  ...with air, not wire !! lots of silly things to check too, choke coming off all the way ?? i would probably do a compleat tuneup...
• Re: temp II sensor (syncro)
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:15:53 -0400
  ...while, 7 minutes, it > starts to run bad, engine starts to choke, spits some black smoke, > back fires then stalls. mixture may be off...
• Re: WTB: Complete Fuel injection system for 1982 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:14:41 -0400
  ...The > lack of choke on the webers makes cold starts awkward starting in > November and they get to be a serious PITA from December...
• Re: multiple questions
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Tue, 29 Nov 94 10:06:57 CST
  ...if it goes bad (or gets unhooked), the computer can't tell that the engine is cold (and so, doesn't "choke" the fuel...
• Coughing no go at start up off lights and stuff...
  Historical mailing list - James AYRES
  Fri, 2 Nov 2007 21:26:52 -0600
  ...It seems as if it's choked and getting either too much gas or too little. I have tried lots of stuff, new plugs...