Real good chance somebody convenient to Susie has a known good TB that could
be easily attached for testing purposes, or am I the only one who has enough
spare parts to create a Frankenvan?

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Andrew Martin
|Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:33 AM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: An intro and Throttle Body leak question
|
|Susie and "Butters" are located in the Seattle area.
|
|If there are no listees available to assist, George at PorBug has an
|excellent reputation and Larry's Roadhaus recommended repair shops page
|confirms this.
|
|http://www.roadhaus.com/shops_search_map.php?state_id=47
|
|
|Andrew
|Bainbridge Island WA
|
|
|
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Karl Wolz
|Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:15 AM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: An intro and Throttle Body leak question
|
|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