hi.
it's a little goofy how VW mounts that part.
The socket the unit plugs into , clips onto a black plastic bracket that
looks like a double relay holder ..
and probably 'was' sort of ..
they must have had thousands of those left over ..and had to use them
somewhere ....but that is what the control unit socket clips to the side
of.
Slips into a slot on the side of it.

Find anyone with any engine conversion and odds are huge that whoever
did the conversion left that part still screwed into the body by two
screws. I constantly see stuff left on engine conversion vans that have
no purpose at all in the new installation.
How people can do work like that I just don't get, but I see it all of
the time.
  Every single subaru conversion I have ever seen has that bracket left
on it, unless I did the conversion..pretty much anyway.

or ....get creative ..
get whatever ..a block of firm foam ..wire-tie the control unit to
it......glue it to the body or whatever..
just so it can't flop around .
heck ....lay it on a piece of foam, and put a strap of plumbers tape
over it,  held down with two sheet metal screws.

it does not have to be upside down or anything.
It's mounted standing up originally btw ...but it can be on it's side or
anything.
Just protect it from vibration, moisture , heat etc.

scott

On 5/12/2012 11:36 PM, C Snyder  wrote:
> I just replaced the idle control unit in my 1987 2-wheel drive van and when I took out the old one, it was just laying back behind the right side stop light assembly. However from reading about  replacing it, it said to mount it upside down in the bracket. I find NO bracket of any kind. Their is a black plastic socket at the bottom of the area where the idle assemly is but for the life of me I have not found any way to attach the idle control unit to hold it in place as stated in any liturture I have on mounting it.
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