

| Subject: | Re: vanagon Digest - 22 Apr 2014 to 23 Apr 2014 (#2014-219) |
| From: | Steve Henderson |
| Date: | Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:51:14 -0500 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Temp II and the Throttle switch are common idle problems. Look @ this Dogpilot post http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=292275 > 1. '88 Vanagon poor idle when engine is first started (4) > On 4/23/2014 2:58 PM, John Graham wrote: >> I have an '88 Vanagon totally stock 2.1 engine that has served me >> well for the past 203,000 miles. Most recent engine repair was >> to refurbish the heads about 10,000 miles ago and had been >> running fine since. >> >> My recent problem that started this winter is a poor idle >> condition when started first thing (i.e. engine is at ambient >> temp). The engine starts fine, with idle a little over 1K and >> idles there for about 20 seconds and then want to die unless I >> give it some throttle. If I let it die, it restarts just fine >> and runs for the 20 seconds and dies. >> >> I can drive off at this point without problems because the RPMs >> are up. My first stoplight is about a half mile from my house >> and by the time I reach that point, the engine will idle - though >> a little roughly at about 900 RPMs and by the time I've gone say >> another mile, it has pretty much settled down to a normal idle >> when stopped at a light. >> >> If I make a quick stop at a store after the engine is warmed up, >> it restarts with no startup idle issues. >> >> So - I suspect something related to a 'cold idle' system. I've >> recently changed sparkplugs and airfilter and rotor and cap have >> less than 5000 miles; Ignition wires are about a year old. >> >> I'm open to suggestion for what to try next. I'm fairly handy >> and of course have a Bentley manual. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTWKY8AAoJEKEoFnOjSOs3ZQUH/1WGaVdoxfx8vhsYjWKTrMuS GVUDJ0+Hqir52Cdv05Y5tNPQG9zmSYwT3D5+G0AYqwtjjg44OqDB5wCB/Bkii3PX 50Fy1h0pjjK4QJpE/016qPWgN9/SIUXw4mIJuhoTfX+SCG3pGwHaLi2FpdDn6N5D o0NgdmfXmrC5zlg9+IEqtJHnTp7i3gOUpyQq3p+jaY/pZIVvxIrSrgNbKgnR8gja mAN5cGJ1hxhroSmEMjPRzEZ3q/+ytDP80CFzpSiOrJnXotqLP3umC2UP97stTGNi pkANSCuxkj5xwYLGqMyoEjzV36xs6wz70fESTUAxt2Z4cd0PxuAwtl3XMNQsOX4= =isnw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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