Hi Volks:

Well, I congratulated myself too soon - but I fixed it again, and now I am
99% sure it'll stay fixed.

After my last email, I went downstairs (15 floors) to clean up the van - and
it was the same story again. How depressing.

OK, I thought - maybe the problem is at the ECU end, so I removed the
digitool connector, removed the harness connector to the EC - and
spray-cleaned it.

I connected the ECU cable - went back to start the engine and see the
effect.

It ran great! I looked at the digitool readout to see what's going on -
darn! I forgot to reconnect it.

I connected it again - van had no afm voltage! It died almost immediately!

I disconnected it - ran great. Reconnected it - dies.

So, needless to say, I'm leaving it off for now.

I think what's happened is that the long ribbon cable has a short between
conductors - and it's clamping my AFM voltage to ground.

Well, I guess I'll know in the morning for sure - but I'm gonna sleep
comfortably tonight - with fairly certain knowledge I've found the problem

Thanks to all that wrote in - this list is great!

Marshall Ruskin

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 09:15 PM
Subject: Re: TOTALLY RESOLVED: Big problem with engine not running - please
help now!

> At 08:25 PM 5/27/2002, Marshall wrote:
> >I sprayed contact cleaner on the wiper surface, the commutator of the
wiper
> >(key step), sprayed the connectors and unkinked a wire inside the afm
> >itself.
>
> Glad you fixed it -- for next time it's a good idea to find the problem
> first and *then* fix it, that way you know what you did.
>
> On AFMs I've seen, the carbon-button rotating contact has been bypassed
> with a flexible wire -- is that not present on yours?
>
> d
>
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
>   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"