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Subject:Re: 81 Westy - should it have an O2 sensor or not?
From:Sean Bartnik
Date:Mon, 11 May 1998 17:57:51 EDT
>
> Here's the question (as well as the embedded problem)...the van has always
> had a problem with CO2 being in spec.  I've never been able to get it down
> to 1.5.  I was speaking with a local VW guru who told me that all the FI
> equipped motors had an O2 sensor, except that mine doesn't.  The
> supposition here is that a PO swapped out the current non-O2 manifold for
> the prior O2 equipped type.

No.  The early air-cooled Vanagons (1980-1983) did NOT have oxygen
sensors UNLESS they were California model vans.

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Sean Bartnik
Fredericksburg, Virginia
1981 Volkswagen Vanagon L Westfalia
1974 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia convertible
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