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Subject:Re: 82 vanagon runs on when the key is off
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:01:52 -0400
Or possibly it's getting enough blowby from the crankcase to run a
bit????  I'm out of my depth here...

d

At 09:32 PM 7/2/2002, David Beierl wrote:
>At 09:15 PM 7/2/2002, Vanagon man wrote:
>>What causes that sort of dieseling after you turn off the key....running
>>rich?
>
>It can't run unless there's fuel getting to it, even if there's a hot spot
>in the cylinder.  Suggests that it may not actually be turning off the ECU,
>or that one or more injectors is leaky, in which case it would keep
>dribbling fuel in until the pressure in the system bled down.
>
>david
>
>
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>David Beierl - Providence, RI
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>'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
>'85 GL "Poor Relation"

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  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"