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• Lambda sensor
  Historical mailing list - Mark Rokus
  Tue, 12 Jun 2001 23:54:59 -0700
  I had to revert my drive so I lost the thread about lambda sensors but: here is a updated link for a monitor and...
• Re: Wet weather power loss
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 7 Apr 2001 02:10:49 -0400
  ...Temp II open gives very rich mix (lambda voltage will stay above half volt), shorted is too lean to run cold. Lambda sensor grounded...
• 86 smog check - payed + didn't pass
  Historical mailing list - Michael Pabst
  Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:25:54 EST
  ...lambda ok + CO too high is a necessary + sufficient condition for a bad cat (lambda ok means mixture and, therefore, FI ok). 3. Every...
• Re: O2 Sensor - lean/rich indicator
  Historical mailing list - Erik Soule
  Fri, 28 Jul 1995 15:44:19 -0700
  ...I quoteth: "The voltage supplied by the lambda sensor as a result of the oxygen content in the exhaust reaches 800...1000 mV with...
• Re: O2 sensor question
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 9 Jun 1997 08:27:35 -0700
  > > The best power is at lambda 0.90. The sensor has its entire voltage > change between > 0.98 and 1.01 -- almost no range...
• Re: AFC
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Sat, 1 Jan 2000 21:06:14 -0700
  ...According to Probst (http://www.bentleypublishers.com/bosch/gfib/gfib.htm) this should really be called "L-Jetronic with Lambda." Digijet and Digifant systems...
• Re: Wet weather power loss
  Historical mailing list - Helen Fahy
  Sat, 7 Apr 2001 06:15:34 -0400
  ...Temp II open gives very rich mix > (lambda voltage will stay above half volt), shorted is too lean to run > cold. Lambda sensor grounded...
• Re: Vanagon trivia - name THAT part!
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:58:28 -0700
  ...This is a European Syncro > DJ-code 112 hp liter engine with an O2 sensor and a Catalytic converter. > The Lambda Sensor Control Unit...
• Re: O2 Sensor Voltage
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 4 Feb 2001 03:40:21 -0500
  ...True -- but he's talking about *disconnecting* the lambda sensor from the ECU and measuring its output voltage directly with a high-impedance voltmeter...
• Re: Euro Vanagons 2.1L have 112 horsies.....
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:13:35 +0100
  Besides the higher compression, the "DJ" engine has no catalytic converter (the last wasserboxer without it)and no lambda sensor. Not useful for the...
• Re: '82 Westy Diesel Aux. Heater
  Historical mailing list - Eric Giroux
  Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:32:09 -0400
  ...Bosch L-Jetronic with Lambda Closed-Loop Control is missing page 9. The link points to page 8. Pointing to 'LJETL-09.GIF' gives...
• Re: Very Rich running
  Historical mailing list - Jean-Guy Savoie
  Tue, 1 May 2001 22:30:58 -0300
  ...contaminated Lambda (unhook, go for a long drive and the crap may burn off) or 2. leaks in exhaust system. JGS 84 1.9L...
• Re: o2 sensor question again sorry
  Historical mailing list - G.M.Bulley
  Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:57:58 -0500
  The Lambda O2 sensor is perhaps THE most important sensor in the late Vanagon injection. After as all of the other inputs are considered...
• Re: O2 Sensor Voltage
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 4 Feb 2001 03:27:47 -0500
  ...The measurement range of the lambda sensor is so tiny that it really only indicates "perfect," "too rich," and "too lean" without giving any...
• Re: Powerwashing FAIL
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:57:46 -0500
  PS -- I don't really think they will, as the lambda sensor should not affect starting; but getting it out of the circuit when...
• Re: Local gas prices
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:56:16 -0700
  ...do about Fuel Injected cars that arent ment > for Ethyenol gas... Lambda-sensing fuel injection systems like the AFC, Digijet, and Digifant are actually...
• Re: oxs light
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:43:34 -0400
  ...OTOH the lambda sensor can backstop the rest of the system and allow good running even if the AFM is not quite right, there...
• Re: Catalytic convertor
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:17:52 -0500
  ...The lambda sensor is ahead of the cat itself, even though it's in the same housing. Putting it after the cat would confuse...
• Re: Digijet = K-Jetronic?
  Historical mailing list - Brad Snyder
  Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:12:18 +0000
  ...Digijet is the VW version of L-Jetronic with lambda. I would recommend the Bentley book (Bosch Fuel Injection & Engine Management) as it helped...
• Re: O2 sensors effect on power
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:57:58 -0500
  ...The mixture for maximum power is 12.6:1, or lambda = 0.86; the mixture for maximum economy is 15.4:1, or lambda...
• Re: O2 sensors effect on power
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:57:58 -0500
  ...The mixture for maximum power is 12.6:1, or lambda = 0.86; the mixture for maximum economy is 15.4:1, or lambda...
• Air-Fuel Ratio fluctuation
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:36:33 -0700
  ...At all RPMs, with ECU running in either open loop or with the lambda sensor wire connected, the LM-1 lambda reading will periodically...
• Re: Another O2 sensor querry -- heater element elementals
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:13:02 -0400
  ...It runs open loop until it sees that the lambda sensor is working (because it's overpowering the bias voltage that the ECU puts...
• O2 sensor voltage test
  Historical mailing list - James Creech
  Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:11:46 -0500
  ...Numbers should be range between 100 or 200 mV (equals higher lambda value, equals leaner) and 1000 mV (lower lambda, thus richer). You want...
• Re: terminology
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Tue, 1 Feb 2000 16:49:04 EST
  ...My '85 uses the Digijet which is a Bosch L-Jetronic w/Lambda. Both are pulsed fuel injection systems with the Digifant incorporating more...
• Re: Engine management (manual control of mixture)
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Sun, 16 Jan 2000 06:41:10 +0100
  ...the FI system in general, and also includes good info on Lambda (O2) sensor, and the work it performs. *Build an O2 indicator: http...
• Re: tested Oxygen Sensor, and...
  Historical mailing list - Taeke Takeon
  Fri, 16 May 2008 18:02:54 -0400
  O2 sensor isn't active at idle, or rather the lambda FI computer isn't active. On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:53...
• Trip
  Historical mailing list - David Bjorkman
  Fri, 27 May 2016 14:50:49 -0500
  ...EVAP Emission Control Sys P0441 - 35-00 - Incorrect Flow 16525 - Oxygen (Lambda) Sensor B1 S2; Heating Circuit P0141 - 35-10 - Malfunction - Intermittent Readiness: 0000...
• Re: Digijet in Bosch Parlance
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Wed, 22 Oct 1997 16:52:04 -0700
  ...According to the Probst's book (pg 15) Digijet is VW's version of L-Jetronic with Lambda. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Young young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley...
• Re: O2 Sensor voltage
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:44:41 -0700
  ...The measurement range of the lambda sensor is so tiny that it really only indicates "perfect," "too rich," and "too lean" without giving any...
• Re: '82 Westy Diesel Aux. Heater
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:38:25 -0500
  ...Bosch L-Jetronic with Lambda Closed-Loop Control is missing page 9. The link points to page 8. Pointing to 'LJETL-09.GIF' gives...
• How to display lambda sensor info
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Mon, 11 Mar 96 13:35:56 EST
  I've been unsuccessful so far in finding the LM3914 chip needed to build the LED array shown in http://proffa.cc.tut.fi...
• Re: O2 sensors effect on power
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:41:54 -0500
  What I meant (and obviously said badly) is that if you want max power the lambda sensor will defeat you by running too lean...
• 02 sensor
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 1 Jul 1996 08:37:47 -0700 (PDT)
  ...I found in a Bosch FI book a calibration curve (voltage vs. >lambda) fora Bosch Oxygen sensor. SO I know at what voltage reading...
• Re: Help Educate Me
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:39:05 -0800
  ...generate about a half a volt at the proper mixture setting (lambda = 1) at idle. Now you can use a voltmeter to at least...
• Re: Fuel Pressure Too High?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 8 May 2001 17:31:22 -0400
  ...The ECU will try to shorten the injector pulses to compensate (*if* your lambda sensor is working) but very likely that much extra is...
• David Marshal. Why did this mod increase my fuel economy?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Modl
  Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:42:22 EST
  ...That is what a lambda ECU would hold it at if you had a O2 sensor in your fuel injection system. Who knows what...
• Re: need 1.9l digijet
  Historical mailing list - Tim Smith
  Tue, 29 May 2001 15:59:14 -0300
  >The 1.9 digijet uses the Bosch L-jetronic with lambda sensor. The full >manual is located at http://www.loam.org/vw/ L...
• Re: need 1.9l digijet FI website/info
  Historical mailing list - John Philcox
  Tue, 29 May 2001 13:07:04 -0400
  Tim, The 1.9 digijet uses the Bosch L-jetronic with lambda sensor. The full manual is located at http://www.loam.org/vw...
• Re: FI question
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 29 Apr 96 10:41:55 PDT
  ...This is named Lambda control. Jack '73 Westfalia ('78 motor) Costa Mesa, CA
• Re: VW cat converter : 2 or 3 way?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:41:56 -0600
  ...too lean, which may be caused by a malfunctioning O2 sensor-lambda control system or various vacuum leaks, etc. See the Bosch fuel injection...
• Re: A damn OS question again, yea!!! now i need some help, it's my turn....
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 9 May 2002 02:16:54 -0400
  ...It gives the sensor output for a new sensor as about 850 mv for lambda of 0.99, about 175 mv for lambda of...
• Re: Oxygen sensor-replace or unplug?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Rokus
  Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:09:26 -0700
  ...Since I have never seen a lambda sensor with only two wires, I'm going to make an assumtion and guess that you mean...
• Re: VW Fuel Injection Information (was SS header)
  Historical mailing list - Carl Turner
  Fri, 19 Sep 1997 16:17:50 -0400
  ...Digijet is a VW name for the Bosch L-Jetronic with Lambda (Lambda is Bosch speak for an Oxygen sensor feedback loop) The book...
• Re: Digijet in Bosch Parlance
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Wed, 22 Oct 1997 17:00:02 -0700
  ...Yours, being a later version, would be based upon the L-Jetronic with Lambda. There are some significant differences in the computer (I think...
• Re: AFM adjustment; clockwise or anticlockwise?
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:07:38 -0700
  ...http://www.innovatemotorsports.com/products/lm2.php That, plus an O2 sensor socket to remove the stock lambda sensor and plug in the LM...
• Re: Heh -- I'm such a ninnyhammer
  Historical mailing list - Mike Elliott
  Sun, 3 Aug 2008 16:59:49 -0700
  ...Probably could not hook up Lambda sensor when van in motion. 3. Shop finds that when my ECU is swapped with their One Good...
• Re: Catalytic convertor
  Historical mailing list - Keith Adams
  Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:38:12 -0700
  ...The lambda sensor is ahead of the cat itself, > even though it's in the same housing. Putting it after the cat would > confuse...
• Re: TII conversion
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:23:37 EDT
  ...curves to utilize a not-previously-supported O2 sensor and full Lambda loop. The only possible thing I could visualize would be jumper selection...
• Re: tested Oxygen Sensor, and...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 16 May 2008 23:23:17 -0400
  ...O2 sensor isn't active at idle, or rather the lambda FI computer isn't active. On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:53...
• Re: Digijet = K-Jetronic?
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:34:27 -0700
  ...Digijet is the VW version of L-Jetronic with lambda. > > I would recommend the Bentley book (Bosch Fuel Injection & Engine > Management) as it helped...
• Re: Digitool data...what does it mean?
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Thu, 30 May 2002 21:35:45 -0700
  ...between -.05V to +.58V O2 sensor reading is normal unless at full throttle - the lambda circuit is constantly adjusting the mixture to keep it...
• Where do I stick this?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:01:11 -0400
  ...This HJS ECU had its own wiring harness, its own sensors to include the famous Lambda, or oxygen sensor. This HJS ECU talked to...
• Re: O2 sensor voltage test
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:07:44 -0600
  ...Numbers should be range between 100 or 200 mV (equals higher > lambda value, equals leaner) and 1000 mV (lower lambda, thus richer). You > want...
• Re: '85 GL won't start
  Historical mailing list - SStones
  Mon, 14 Jul 1997 19:27:06 -0400
  ...if it were igniting the engine would be running) and the lambda switch (O2 sensor) would be leaning out the mixture which would have...
• Re: [Syncro] Wiring for CIS-E F.I. in Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:26:00 -0800
  ...I think you have a CIS-Lambda system. There are a few quick ways to tell by looking at your fuel distributor. What color...
• Re: Injector color question
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:06:05 -0400
  Let me add that my DJ code WBX has an additional lambda ECU and the engine did not originally come with an O2 sensor...
• Re: Diamler chrysler vw...
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:10:26 +1200
  ...Plymouth(?) Sapporo - Lambda/Scorpion Plymouth Cricket - Hillman Avenger. An classic English dog. Chevy Luv - Isuzu Ford Courier - Mazda B-series So... when is Mercedes...
• Re: Where do I stick this?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:19:52 -0400
  ...This HJS ECU had its own wiring harness, > its > own sensors to include the famous Lambda, or oxygen sensor. This HJS ECU > talked to...
• Re: Tii Trading Co. 2.0 South African conversion kit
  Historical mailing list - se7en
  Sun, 6 Feb 2000 22:04:40 -0800
  ...I do believe there are other ways of controlling carbon monoxide than having a lambda sensor. I also don't believe that the 'cat...