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Subject:Re: Heh -- I'm such a ninnyhammer
From:Mike Elliott
Date:Sun, 3 Aug 2008 18:13:08 -0700

Oh great -- some secret set screw buried in the AFM body. And I should
tell the shop to hook up the sniffer, unearth that screw and play with it?

Could tuning this vanagon be more complicated?

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

On 8/3/2008 6:00 PM Mike Collum wrote:

> Mike Elliott wrote:
>> For you guys that work on 1.9L Digijet engines -- what are the "knobs" I
>> use for the tuning? Timing is one, what else we got?
>
> In a previous post, I pointed out that I am using a different AFM with
> my new 2.1 and I attribute that AFM to providing excellent gas mileage
> without O2 sensor input.
>
> There is a plug in your AFM that can be drilled, a screw put into the
> hole, and by pulling up on the screw, the plug will come out.  There is
> a screw under that plug that can be adjusted for proper mixture but you
> would want to have the proper sniffer equipment hooked up so that any
> adjustment wouldn't make things worse.  I've never messed with that
> screw ... but I know it's there.
>
> Mike
>