>From: "Joel Walker"

>anyway, black and slightly sooty is normal for fuel injection. the
>computers always make the mixture just a bit rich, to protect the pistons
>from burning. this is why you have the 2nd throttle position switch ... for
>Full Throttle. when that switch is clicked/closed, the computer kicks the
>mixture more into rich, so that you can't burn up the engine roaring down
>the road (for example, in case you had a minor air cleak in the intake or
>something).

Hey thanks Joel. I am glad to know I have normal stuff coming out of my tail
pipe. ;-)
I am going to pull the heads and reseal all that I can this weekend. I will
probably replace the plugs, fuel filter, new seals on the injectors and new
fuel lines.

Can anyone think of anything else I might want to do while I am in there and
have a lot of stuff out of the way?

Michael Knight
'77 Westy Deluxe, "el Verde"
'85 Vanagon GL, nameless