Ok I blew it . 

        Oceanside , California is where I spotted a very clean silver metallic Syncro Westy 86 ish parked in the street . 
         Down the street on a Friday night by the theatre  . If it is your van it was very clean . 

-Stacy

On Dec 28, 2012, at 10:28 PM, "Tom Hargrave" <thargrav@hiwaay.net> wrote:

> Stacy,
> 
> How is Oceanside, NY doing after the storm? One of my suppliers - Chudnow -
> was flooded by the storm but I've not heard how the area is doing in
> general.
> 
> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
> www.stir-plate.com
> www.towercooler.com
> www.kegkits.com
> www.grow-sun.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
> Stacy Schneider
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 12:14 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Blue Syncro oceanside
> 
>           Just at the theater in Oceanside and saw a nice 86ish silver blue
> parked on the street . Be glad the keys were not in it ,I would have taken
> it home .
>          Nice clean Syncro .
> 
> 
> 
> -Stacy
> 
> On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
> <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
> 
>> I havenot run into the problem of a shorted 02 coax myself, but i have 
>> read about it, and I have seen a whole new coax wire tapped into the 
>> original one near the ecu.
>> 
>> re " when the coolant temp sensor told the ECU to turn the heater off 
>> on the sensor. "
>> 
>> Oxygen sensor heat is full time, any time thekey is on, from the main 
>> relay, pretty sure.
>> 
>> scott
>> turbovans
>> 
>> On 12/28/2012 10:39 AM, David Clarkson wrote:
>>> Greeting vanagonauts. I recently (approx 500 miles ago) replaced my 
>>> O2 sensor after having a problem with my 1990 Wesfalia that caused it 
>>> to bog down and quit running after warming up. I am assuming that 
>>> this happened when the coolant temp sensor told the ECU to turn the 
>>> heater off on the sensor. When I unplugged the sensor the problem went
> away.
>>> Since my sensor had more than 60K on it which is the VW replacement 
>>> interval, I replaced the sensor. After Installing the sensor 
>>> everything seemed to be back to normal. One other bit of info that is 
>>> worth mentioning is that I have an O2 sensor monitor that indicated 
>>> that everything went completely rich when the problem occurred. It 
>>> showed this type reading with the original sensor issue and the new 
>>> sensor issue. My thoughts are that the problem might be with the 
>>> small guage coax type cable that sends the sensor signal to the ECU 
>>> grounding out from the inner sensor wire to the outer metal sheathing 
>>> that I believe is grounded to the chassis. I had a similar problem 
>>> with this cable once before and I believe that I cut a small piece 
>>> off of the end and put the connector back on. Knowing that most types 
>>> of coax cable will eventually fail, I am wondering if anyone has had 
>>> a problem similar to this with this cable and if so where did you 
>>> find a replacement. I believe  that it is wrapped with the other 
>>> wires in the main harness section that goes to the ECU so I would 
>>> probably just run another piece that would be wire-tied to it rather 
>>> than risk disturbing the rest of the original harness and causing a 
>>> problem with another wire. Maybe there is another problem. I think 
>>> that if it were a problem with the not so old coolant temp sensor I 
>>> would have some type of symptom with the O2 sensor unplugged. I 
>>> thought that I would pick the collective craniums of the group since,  
>>> as is usually the case someone has BTDT with this issue. I'm just not 
>>> the type to want to continue riding around with the o2 sensor 
>>> unplugged with the price of gas and the extra emissions that I would 
>>> produce that are not good for the environment or my catalytic 
>>> converter. Thanks for any input that you have. I am suddenly having 
>>> to drive my older van a lot due to a temporary employment situation and
> it's begging for attention.
>>> 
>>> David Clarkson
>>> 90 Westfalia about 200 mi  short of 300K-now what will I get it or do 
>>> for it for this milestone birthday? It has been asking for cosmetic 
>>> surgery for some time now (rust repair and paint)!
> 
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