From my archive....

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Gardner" <jgardner@napanet.net>
To: <subaruvanagon@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 08:20 AM
Subject: Re: [subaruvanagon] Re: DIFFICULT COLD START

> Toby, our local Subaru Guru gave me a tip for the idle control valve;
> (Toby was discovered by Rev. Brian of Orinda when he did his conversion
back
> in the
> dark ages 3 years ago. Toby had been a VW mechanic for 12 years and knew
> vanagons
> inside an out. He was working at Diablo Subaru in Walnut Creek CA. He was
> much like Hobert,
> very giving of his time and extremely knowledgeable when dealing with the
> frustrations of the
> Wrecking Yard mismatch blues) Rev. Brian was a pioneer in this Vubaru
thing.
> (except he cheated because he had God helping him:)
> Warren have you got him on line?
>
> Idle Control Valve
> Pull off the larger hose from the valve (the one going over to valve
cover)
> and
> spray WD 40 into the valve and then replace the hose back on.
> Many times  (he says ) it is just a matter of a sticking valve inside.
> This lubricates it.
>
> BTW my father in law does this same trick with the standard vanagon
> starter, he drills a hole diagonally thu the bakelite insulator at the
end,
> approx. 1/8"
> dia., squirts in WD 40 and then plugs hole with self tapping screw.
>
> I had to try it 5 years ago when in desert and starter failed. the local
> parts house
> did not have bosch rebuild, so rather than buy local off brand i gave it a
> "shot"
> and it was still working 4 years later when we did the vubaru conversion.
>
> Jay
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: kjanda <kjanda@picknowl.com.au>
> To: <subaruvanagon@egroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [subaruvanagon] Re: DIFFICULT COLD START
>
>
> > I think that could be a idle control valve problem .
> > Kurt Janda
> >
> >
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