Can someone post a photo of the infamous ECU? I think I have spare, but
may be confusing it with the AFM. Feeling rather ignorant ...

Woody
83.5 V'gon
Haverhill, MA

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of TC
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:55 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Spare pasrt you gotta lug around ..Re: Larry's up and
running...Re: S.O.S. Vanagon stuck 20 miles N of Orlando in Maitland, FL

>Luckily, when one failed 1,000 miles from home,
> I had a spare under the seat.
Yah after my little mis-adventure of leaving my spare dist at home this
last
weekend
it had new re-affirrmed my belief that driving
this 20+ yrs old box you gotta have 1 of each of the following under the
rear seat
(this all unders my rear seat, except I got a new fuel pump/water pump
so
those are out )

they dont have to be new just get me home parts from flea bay / samba
Qty                                 Price                Used
New
1-ECU                                                     40
1-Idle contrrol stablizer
40
1-Ignition Control Module
42
1-Distributor (prefer with New Hall Sender)  45
1-New Rotor // New Cap
5/8
1-Coil
55
1-Alternator with extra pulley pre-mounted  55
2-Relays Fuel/Main from black box                                   10
4-plugs
8
1-Ignition wire set
35
3-feet of the skinny vacum hose
5
1-Fuel Pump
160
1-Water pump
55
Real bonus AFM/StarterMotor bit tool big   ??
and the usual gum & tooth picks to glue is together :)

so that is gonna run ya 500-700 under the rear seat
but you just know everyone of the parts is gonna bite ya