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Subject:Re: DEAR GOD Re: timing belt
From:Eric Zeno
Date:Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:32:43 -0400

Not without changing the plug.

            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          86-SS Syncro
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
                                   92-Jetta GWC
            www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm   

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, tmiller wrote:

> Eric:
> 
> Well, all I can say is I swapped my 92 Jetta ISV into my van and it 
> solved the idle problem so I bought another one to replace it.  All is good.
> TEMiller
> 
> vw4x4@fyi.net wrote:
> 
> > Tom,
> >     I have no idea as to what year, but I have seen many of
> > these types of ISV plugs on Golfs, Jettas, CIS-E fuel systems,
> > digifant, old and new. They are not the same plug as the
> > Vanagon, as chris states.  
> >                                               Eric
> >  
> >
> > Tom Miller wrote:
> >
> >>Eric:
> >>
> >>At the risk of being scolded, my 92 Jetta 2 wire idle stabilizer is
> >>interchangeable with the 2 wire idle stabilizer in my 89 Vanagon Camper.
> >>What year did they go to three wire stabilizers in Jetta's?
> >>TEMiller
> >>
> >>----- Original Message ----- 
> >>From: "Eric Zeno" <vw4x4@FYI.NET> <mailto:vw4x4@FYI.NET>
> >>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> <mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> >>Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 7:16 AM
> >>Subject: Re: DEAR GOD Re: timing belt
> >>
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >>>Chris,
> >>>    What the h$$ are you talking about.  In my hands the other day were
> >>>both 2 and 3 wire idle stabilizers.   I don't have time to piss around
> >>>correcting
> >>>all this BS hear.   You or any one talking about timing belt changes,
> >>>arguing with someone that it is a timing chain in vanagon engine.
> >>>    If you insist I will make a fool out of you and take time out of my
> >>>busy schedule, and put you in your place.   To the list:  be prepared
> >>>to disregard anything from Chris.   He asked for it!  Now he is going
> >>>to be the fool.         I'll be posting a picture to my WEB sight soon,
> >>>of both Jetta and Vanagon 3 and 2 wire stabilizers, sided by side.
> >>>It will be clear that one will not work, in place of the other.   When
> >>>I do you are the one that needs to apologize.  Boy do you have
> >>>guts, as wrong as you can be.  People like you are the people
> >>>I can not stand the most.  You think you know it all.... Well time
> >>> the grow up because you don't.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>                                          ERic
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Chris DeLong wrote:
> >>>
> >>>    
> >>>
> >>>>Thank you Eric. Oh yeah, still havent seen any pic of the infamous (I
> >>>>presume, non-existent) 3-wire Digifant idle stabilizer. And no, dont
> >>>>even ask, I will not give it up until you admit that you posted faulty
> >>>>information or apologize to the list for not knowing what you were
> >>>>talking about.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>regards,
> >>>>
> >>>>Chris DeLong
> >>>>Fine Tuning
> >>>>206.522.5503
> >>>>www.finetuningperformance.com <http://www.finetuningperformance.com>
> >>>>Seattle, WA USA
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>      
> >>>>
> >>>>>From: Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET> <mailto:vw4x4@FYI.NET>
> >>>>>Reply-To: Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET> <mailto:vw4x4@FYI.NET>
> >>>>>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> >>>>>Subject: DEAR GOD   Re: timing belt
> >>>>>Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:26:15 -0400
> >>>>>
> >>>>>"No Belt...timing chain instead"
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Dear GOd.   Please help this list.  It has become full of (SH)
> >>>>>non-sense.
> >>>>>Full of people saying things that they have no clue of what they are
> >>>>>talking about.  God, this list is going to H$%^LL, without your help
> >>>>>to keep people in check.
> >>>>>     Please God, strick the next person dead who posts anything that
> >>>>>they are not 1000% sure of to be true.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>                           amen
> >>>>>
> >>>>>            Eric                   86-VW4x4
> >>>>>            vw4x4@fyi.net <mailto:vw4x4@fyi.net>          86-SS Syncro
> >>>>>            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
> >>>>>                                   92-Jetta GWC
> >>>>>            www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm <http://www.fyi.net/%7Evw4x4/vw4x4.htm>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, george jannini wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>        
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>   No belt...timing chain instead, and it's not a part of the
> >>>>>>          
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>maintenance
> >>>>>        
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>schedule.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>     George
> >>>>>>     '89 WesTiico, Wernher
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>          
> >>>>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>      
> >>>>
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> 
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