Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:50:32 -0700
Reply-To: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
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From: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
Subject: Re: off to Yellowstone! And we're back...
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congrats on the trip sounded like fun.. anyway on you comment about
a laptop and an ISP, anyone using a laptop with a wireless modem?
would be cool to email the list and get some remote troubleshooting
while on a trip.
below is the snip from Matt.
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Next time i'm goign to bring a laptop computer and a nation wide ISP
connection so i can just email the list and see what consensus says.
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---- Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU> wrote:
> > billowing smoke!!???? what color smoke?
> > details, man, details!!!!! Enquiring Minds Wants to Know!!! :)
>
> Black billowing smoke... which led to think i was running rich, very
> rich.
> Running rich can be caused by: temp2, oxy, fuel pressure regulator
> or
> busted injector. The FPR was 500 miles old. The temp2 connector (the
> wiring harness side) has a cracked connector so i immediatly assumed
> it
> finially wiggled it's way off so i ducttaped it back in place. The
> problem was solved for about 3 hrs. Then it happend again. Hmmm, the
> connector wiggled off again?? More duct tape. Fixed for 90 minutes.
> Each
> successive stop-and-fix got closer and closer till i decided it was
> NOT
> the temp 2. So it dawned on me to cut the oxygen sensor (i soldered
> the
> connector so i had to cut the wire). Ahhh, fixed. And out of my
> scientific mind i decided to reconnect the wire and reproduce the
> situation of running rich which it did! I never tested the fuel pressure,
> injectors or anything else.
>
> I brough w/ me all the tools i could muster and Bentley. Inside cover
> of
> bently is Ken Wilfey's #, Bus Depot #'s and Cammelback VW's #. I figured
> i
> could have just done the shotgun approach and ordered all POSSIBLE
> problem-parts and have them deliverd general delivery, Yellowstone.
>
> Next time i'm goign to bring a laptop computer and a nation wide ISP
> connection so i can just email the list and see what consensus says.
>
> Now back to, well, nothing.
> M
>
> Matthew Pollard "Racing with the wind and flirting with death
> Dept. Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath"
> University of Idaho
> www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
>
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Joel Walker wrote:
>
> > > all power and was billowing smoke on some backroad in the middle
> of
> > > nowhere Montana... To make a 200 mile story short, once i cut the
> > oxygen
> > > sensor wire, it ran pretty good (18 mpg). After 500 miles of driving
> > like
> >
>
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