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• Re: Need help - will not crank
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:32:12 -0700
  On 3/9/05 13:05, "Chuck Reisinger" <chuckphoto@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote: > Took 89 Westy out today....sat for a month or so....started...
• Re: (Symptoms) No Start, Hesitate at Start
  Historical mailing list - alfred bagdan
  Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:39:59 -0700
  ...Re: (Symptoms) No Start, Hesitate at Start >> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:26:58 -0800 >> From: Blake Heinlein <blakeheinlein@GMAIL.COM> >> Subject: Re...
• Re: Symptoms of a bad starter?
  Historical mailing list - Zolly
  Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:49:29 -0700
  ...Symptoms of a bad starter? > So, my starter is a randomly picked, untested 1.9 starter that was in a > pile > of them some...
• Starter Engages When Revving Engine
  Historical mailing list - Miguel Pacheco
  Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:00:39 -0400
  ...Replaced the starter with new/rebuilt Bosch and did the Cold Start Relay mod while I was at it because the Ingition Switch had...
• Re: Gowesty reduction starter user input please
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 22 Jan 2017 13:53:06 +0000
  ...That makes it significantly cheaper than the GoWesty starter > ($219 vs $300). About 40% of that cost is a one-time investment in the...
• Hard start when cold
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Tue, 11 Aug 1998 10:30:41 PDT
  ...So it will not start on the first attempt, but will always start immediately on the second attempt. It always used to start easily...
• Re: Soggy Wx - No Start
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Dooley
  Fri, 1 May 1998 12:00:14 -0400
  ...Soggy Wx - No Start >My 85 Vanagon starts and runs great in most weather, including hard rain, >but it refuses to start on very...
• Re: Slow Start - now Won't Start (L)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:28:54 EST
  Gregg, it is possible that the rebuilt starter you got was defective from the start (these things happen). I have had some bad experiences...
• Re: VANAGON digest 451
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 08 May 1995 17:25:17 -0500 (EST)
  There's another thing I forgot to tell you about my 79 with "morning sickness." When I'm starting it in the morning and...
• intermittent starting issue vanagon
  Historical mailing list - tina canny
  Sun, 13 May 2012 15:42:15 -0700
  Hello All I wondering if any of you have incurred intermittent starting? It will end upof starting if it sits for a few minutes...
• 86 syncro doesnt start
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Berlett
  Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:15:36 -0400
  ...If I try starting it repeatedly it does start eventually. I am thinking dirty connections somewhere but I don't know where to start.
• Re: Starter/relay/switch problem
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:45:22 -0700
  ...As access to starters go, in the automotive world, The access to the starter on 2WD vanagons, gas or diesel, is about as sweet...
• My new Starter's dimentions
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Merrill
  Fri, 21 May 1999 10:47:44 -0700
  ...I received my new (rebuilt) starter from the Bus Depot. They only listed one starter for both 2x and 4x4, so I took the...
• Re: Intermintant No Start
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:05:26 -0400
  ...It started off a couple months ago like the starter > was going so I replaced it with one of the gowesty gear reduction > starters...
• Re: hot starter isues
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:11:19 -0500
  Take the starter off. Clean the starter solenoid. Clean the trash that has collected around your brushes inside your starter. Try to examine the...
• Re: Vanagon Starter relay kit
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Wed, 9 Dec 2015 21:14:24 -1000
  ...Keeping that load off of the starter switch makes them last a LOT longer. In other words, you are protecting the starter switch by...
• Re: help interpreting starter problem
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Sun, 1 May 2005 20:38:15 -0700
  ...The starter did start turning. So > I uninstalled it, took it back to the FLAPS and had it > tested. The starter they had just...
• Thanks to all who responded to Turn Key - nada
  Historical mailing list - Karen Gritis
  Tue, 28 May 2002 22:38:24 -0400
  What would I do without you? Thanks to all of you who responded to my questions about my starter. It was the starter! You...
• Won't start
  Historical mailing list - tina canny
  Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:52:19 -0800
  ...I let it sit a hour and it started right up. I have had a new starter and solenoid new ignition switch and new...
• Re: Subject: Starter Help!
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Plichta
  Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:35:28 -0500
  ...The last thing I added was an extra ground from the bottom nut on the starter to the negative post of the battery and...
• Re: Starter Help!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:10:05 -0800
  the starter only hums, and doesn't crank the engine ? and you are sure you are sending 12 volts to what I call the...
• Re: 86 syncro doesn't start
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:03:23 -0700
  ...86 syncro doesn't start > can you describe how one would make a Remote Starter Switch? I have a > new/rebuilt starter in my...
• no start
  Historical mailing list - Jason Willenbrock
  Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:49:28 -0500
  ...once the starter did turn the car started right up. so, should i look towards the starter? the starter is only 2 years old...
• Re: 1981 starting problem
  Historical mailing list - John Haddad
  Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:09:04 -0400
  ...http://type2.com/bartnik/starter.htm I installed the Bosch relay kit on my now sold '80, but on my '85, by just getting...
• Re: Diesel starter for Kennedy adapter
  Historical mailing list - Warren Chapman
  Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:44:12 -0400
  ...In >fact I even have an almost new vanagon diesel starter. > >Any thoughts? > >Jason Ewing Don't know anything about diesel starters....but the...
• Re: Automatic Starter options was: Front Heater Fan Motor Lube?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:44:55 -0500
  > And draws about 60 amps no load, vs about 80 for the OE starter. After > ~300k miles of dealing with the OE starter on...
• Re: Starter problem
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:01:27 -0600
  ...Went to start it and all I >got was starter motor noise. Motor was not under load. Thought it might be >the battery being...
• Re: hot starter isues
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:05:42 -0700
  How did you get the starter open? Did you have to use an impact driver? Mine is put together with these screws that are...
• Re: Newbie Question Flood - Hot start
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:26:33 -0800
  > coming in off the highway the van will not start. > No action from the > starter at all. No clicking. Nothing. Sit down > and eat...
• Re: Update (not fixed...) Re: FIXED? (and, advice needed...) (was: Re: low voltage, starter running intermittently, but alternator is okay?)
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:15:44 -0500
  ...Sounds like your problem is a starting problem,not a charging problem. Sounds to me like the starter pilot bushing($2 at your favorite...
• Re: help....84 starting problems
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 5 May 2006 15:17:43 -0500
  ...The only way to get it >started is to roll start it. If I do roll start >it, it runs just fine. If I...
• Re: 2.1 WBX - Cold starts easy, Hot - failure to start
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 25 Apr 2017 09:37:53 -0500
  ...2.1 WBX - Cold starts easy, Hot - failure to start >> > >> > On cold starts it runs good, idles good, no missing at any speed. >> > >> > After...
• Re: Fwd: * 10/4/2015 Needed NOW! Vanagon (1981) ONLY starts when cold /How To FIX this advice. PLEASE . . .
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 5 Oct 2015 16:21:57 -0500
  ...A new/rebuilt started caused the same > >> only-cold starting a few days ago. > >> > >> The second, long bolt to hold the starter on is...
• Re: Hard start
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:52:26 -0800
  If you have a manual transmission, try parking on a hill and bump starting it that way several times. If it mostly starts easily...
• Re: Since we've been talking starters recently on Vanagon list.....
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:24:56 -0500
  ...Since we've been talking starters recently on Vanagon list..... Actually, the VW starter does use a Bendix (no Sprag clutch) to engage the...
• Won't start when hot OR cold
  Historical mailing list - Carlen, Gregg
  Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:54:12 -0500
  ...I was then only able to start the van with a jump start from my other car or the 'start' mode on my battery...
• Re: Starter question
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:52:50 -0500
  Several years ago I had a hesitation before the starter would "Kick in" and sometimes (like when it was raining) it wouldn't kick...
• This week advice.....
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:13:28 -0400
  If you are having problem at startup, no fuel pump priming, no start but the left relay is clicking.... don't blame the pump...
• '82 Diesel vanagon. Starter isn't turning over.
  Historical mailing list - J.C.
  Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:42:55 -0700
  For a couple of months it's taken a number (5, 6, or more) of start attempts to get the starter to turn over...
• Starter question
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hemrick
  Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:27:44 -0500
  ...I'm just throwing it out there BEFORE I climb underneath and start pulling the starter. Now don't start a digest war over...
• Re: starters
  Historical mailing list - lauterba
  Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:40:35 -0400
  ...starters > The day before I left for my winter, southern job last > fall I went to the junkyard to retrieve the starter > off my...
• Re: '84 Westfalia Starting Problem
  Historical mailing list - Gary Davis
  Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:21:15 -0400
  ...Additional attempts to start only flood the motor. Let > the van sit for 30 min. to 2 hours and it starts slowly. Cold starts...
• Starter Upper Nut on Air Cooled Beasties----
  Historical mailing list - Michael Nichols
  Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:01:51 -0400
  ...Remember to unhook all wires from the starter and unhook the battery before you unbolt the starter..... Hope this helps! Regards, Mike Nichols 2...
• Re: Starting system quirk - diagnosis help needed
  Historical mailing list - lakersalex
  Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:11:15 -0700
  I too am experiencing the hot start failure. I ordered the starter relay kit from bus depot in hopes that it fixes the problem...
• Re: '81.5 Diesel 1.6, Won't start
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:57:05 -0700
  ...http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Diesel-Vanagon/?yguid=292636220 Lots of info there on starting troubles. Starter batteries for diesels are typically have...
• Re: Roll starting a Vanagon (manual trans only)
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:15:27 -0400
  ...NEVER PUSH START YOUR VANAGON IN REVERSE! Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 72-240z Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler On Wed, 16 Jun...
• Re: starter problems / i'm a novice
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Thu, 28 Dec 2000 08:40:21 -0800
  I've been wrestling with my own cold start problem on an '86 and have done the following: * replaced transmission to chassis ground cable...
• Re: A Mystery
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Sun, 1 Sep 2013 13:54:09 -0700
  ...Starter turns engine but it won't >> start. Roll it down hill, engage engine with ignition on - starts every >> time. >> >> It's a mystery...
• RE: starter problems
  Historical mailing list - Lebron,Nathan
  Wed, 26 Mar 97 13:12:00 E
  Well Rick welcome to the starter club! I had the exact problem with my 85. One way to get it started is to go...
• Re: Wont start
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:11:14 -0800
  ...I go to leave from lunch and she won't start. It's a bostig conversion, and when I try to start I just...
• Re: No start, (no crank actually)
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:35:08 +0000
  ...Mechanic started motor 6 times in a row in rapid succession; on 7th and 8th try, no crank; on 9th try it started.  He...
• Re: Hesitation when starting, where should I start?
  Historical mailing list - KBatzler
  Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:32:11 -0800
  Hi Patrick, I had been fighting the same problem in my Vanagon....I had diagnosed the day-lights out of the starting and charging...
• Re: Starter
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:22:30 -0400
  ...I have never > ever had any problem with the starter engaging and starting the car > until the old starter went bsd. > Monday, I will...
• Re: Portable Jump Starter
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:17:05 -0800
  > Has anyone had any experience with the SecureStart Portable Jump Starter > battery > made by Bolder Technologies, using thin metal film battery technology?? > They are...
• warm hard start
  Historical mailing list - earl j. smith
  Fri, 24 Apr 1998 20:42:35 -0700
  Recently started having one of those irritating intermitent problems on my 84 Vanagon. Won't start sometimes. Spark OK. Injector spray pattern OK. Engine...
• Re[2]: US License plate fetish
  Historical mailing list
  5 Oct 94 24:43
  Is it Thom who couldn't get his '56 started ? I was talking to a VW wise-man last night and he was telling...
• 91 vanagon not starting
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wyatt
  Sun, 4 Jun 2000 08:37:12 -0700
  ...My 91 westfalia is having selective intermittent starting problems. The silver streak(her newly acquired name-named for the gray hairs she adds to...
• 85 VANAGON starters
  Historical mailing list - Larry Stichweh
  Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:27:17 -0500
  I am getting warning signals from my starter/solenoid. Sometimes (not always)the starter engages but cannot turn over the engine for a second...
• Starting Problem
  Historical mailing list - Peter Wilson
  Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:22:45 -0800
  My 84 Westie won't start. It seems to be flooding out regardless of where I set the accelerator peddle. It will crank, kick...
• coolant sensor and starting
  Historical mailing list - David White
  Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:04:13 -0700
  My 87 vanagon won't start once the engine is warm. But if I unplug the coolant sensor and crank it a few times...