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Subject:Re: Do U carry spare ECU?
From:neil n
Date:Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:24:50 -0700

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:59 AM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
> On the weekend I got a call from a friend in trouble. He had taken a
> group of people up to a lake a few hours from home, using his 86 GL as a
> tour bus. Everything went fine and they made it up the 5000' mountain
> without incident. After unloading he decided to park in a different spot
> and the van would crank fine but not start.
.....
> Installed his spare ECU from his Westy under bench storage, fired right up!
>
> Mark

I recently reduced the amount of spares from this

http://tinyurl.com/y3cp26u

to this

http://tinyurl.com/y2h4dwa

Now I'm thinking find a matching Jetta ECU and ditch more of the
electrical spares to make room for it (really. Who needs to carry that
much spare wire?  ;^)

Good thought Mark

Neil.

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