You don't say where you are.  Listmembers are known to drop by and take a
look at problems of this nature.  Some have spare parts, especially for
1.9L.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Susie Ingham
|Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:58 AM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: An intro and Throttle Body leak question
|
|
|
| Hi-
|I've been a lurker here for a while, I thought i would introduce myself and
|ask a question.
| My husband and i have been bringing a 1984 Westy back to life. It had been
|sitting for 8 years when we bought it last summer, it was not running. long
|story short after much toil and trial ( we're not the most experienced
|mechanics) we got  it running pretty well and took it out for our maiden
|camping trip last week-end.  All went well except for a couple of minor
|glitches. before I get into that I'll give you a brief  list of what we've
|done on the van so far.
|
|
|Compression good right around 175 on all 4 cylinders, according to our test
|New ECU ( I know they "never" go bad but ours was) coil, plugs, plug wires,
|shad injectors cleaned,  new fuel pressure regulator, replaced all fuel
|lines, vacuum advance unit was replaced
|There is no catalytic convertor, it is just a hollow shell.
| now in order to get it running relatively well, Hubby had  advanced the
|timing-- otherwise  the throttle body response was very slow. There seems
|to be a leak in the shaft of the Throttle body-- we switched it out with
|another ( used) and  it too leaks around the shaft and  has a poor fit
|between the butterfly and the housing.
|
| On our trip we had these two issues...
| a couple of times it died at a stop sign.
|it got terrible gas mileage ( around 12 mpg)
|
|So  now we are contemplating buying a rebuilt throttle body ( at 350
|dollars, ouch)  but I'm a little bit hesitant in spending the cash if it's
|not going to  fix it for sure. BTW we know there's a leak in the tb because
|we blow smoke into the vac line and it pretty readily escapes through the
|TB.
|
| so yes it does seem like a tb is in order, but like I said I hate to part
|with the cash-- does it seem likely that a new Tb is warranted? We haven't
|taken it to a mechanic yet, our plan was to  replace the Tb, then take it
|to the mechanics to  have everything adjusted  if needed.( Afm, etc)
|
|what do you think?
| thanks in advance, Susie