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Subject:Re: Weird idle-solved
From:OlRivrRat
Date:Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:40:21 -0600

Not necessarily ~ If the Issue was caused by a Short within the Module, Power to it or the LackThereOf

might not Cause any Consequences or Whatever Fault has occurred within the Module had already Removed

the Power To It which in turn was causing it to RampUp the RPMs ~ Hence My suggestion to Replace ~

                                                                                        ORR ~ DeanB

On 21 Oct , 2014, at 7:32 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:

> I may still have issues, it should have idled with it disconnected, that's
> what sent me off in the wrong direction.  I'll check the plugs and the AFM
> more closely and do a compression test.
> 
> 
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> 
> From: SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott ) [mailto:scottdaniel@turbovans.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 2:49 PM
> To: Stuart MacMillan; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Weird idle-solved
> 
> 
> 
> in my experience ..if it does that..zoom to high rpm on it's own ..
> its the Control Unit.
> 
> and it's good you learned about and went thourgh a bunch of related systes
> in the process.
> 
> in my world ..it's not just getting it to work right again .
> it's understanding the whole thing really well. ..or at least pretty well.
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/21/2014 11:32 AM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
> 
> Failure to follow logical trouble shooting procedures.  It was the idle
> control module all along.  Just didn't want to pay $200 + $100 core to find
> out, but I was able to find a used one for $75.
> 
> 
> 
> At least I've checked everything else out now!
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> 
> 
> Stuart