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Subject:Re: Trouble starting after sitting awhile?
From:Roger Sisler
Date:Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:43:27 -0400

You communicate a nice story.so glad you are backon your feet.I once
bvought a vanagon that hasd been sitting for a few years. I went through
every test in the bentley,twicc to get it started. NO luck. It turned outto
be the fuelinjectors. they were gunked up and fuel could not flow. Two
opposing cylinders were gunked,and the engine would run breifley on two
opposing cylinders.

Here is the fix,but I understand that the voltage may be too high here. a
lower voltage may work and not hurt theinjectors. Remove the injectors. Get
a valve stem from an  old tire and carve it to fit into the injector hose.
Fill hte injector hose with a table spoon of injector cleaner at the
flaps.Clamp the hose/stem.Attach a bicycle pump to the stem.
Now, hook the injector up to 12 volts and open the injector. Push on the
bicycle pump and force thicleaner through theinjector. Works good