Have you had any problems with your fuel infection system yet?  Have you
had to trouble shoot the problem yourself?  Have you had to buy say a
couple parts from the dealer?  One of these days these injection systems
are going to start wearing out.

Right now we're all complaining about Head Gaskets.  What will we all
sound like when our Air intake sensors don't work?

I've driven plenty of vehicles with carbs and i know I can troubleshoot
them...

My four cents worth.

> ----------
> From:         Mark McCulley[SMTP:raven@HALCYON.COM]
> Reply To:     Mark McCulley
> Sent:         Wednesday, March 25, 1998 9:42 AM
> To:   Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      Re: Carbs on my '91 Westie Syncro---"The Story"
>
> After 19 years of owning a bus with carburators and 2.5 years with a
> fuel-injected Vanagon, you couldn't pay me enough to rip out my FI and
> replace it with carbs. In my opinion, FI is a big improvement over
> carburators in many ways. The only advantage I can think of with carbs
> is
> that they rarely catastrophically fail. I can understand Malcolm's
> situation
> though--since the entire FI system was destroyed it made economical
> sense to
> use a carburator. But it certainly was not an improvement over the FI
> system--didn't he say the van wouldn't idle when cold?
>
> -Mark McCulley
>
> At 08:55 AM 3/25/98 -0800, Backus, Brian G wrote:
> >#2   I agree that carburetors are a great alternative to fuel
> injection.
> >So much more simple and less expensive.  Maybe it won't run quite as
> >smooth or get as good of gas mileage, but you can tune it for more
> >power.  Plus if someone can come up with an aftermarket intake
> manifold
> >for a performer type application or even a RV/Mileage application
> that
> >fits nice and neat under the lid.  You all catch my drift.  Think of
> all
> >the money and hair loss we'll all save when the fuel injection pukes.
>