VANAGON archives -- November 2004, week 2 (#206)

Date:         Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:25:05 -0800
Reply-To:     BenT <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         BenT <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Sudden High idle
Comments: To: "jeff@vanagonparts.com" <jeff@vanagonparts.com>
In-Reply-To:  <CAEOIPKOOCKNBBDDDMBPKEFLFPAA.jeff@vanagonparts.com>
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:18:26 -0800, jeff@vanagonparts.com
<jeff@vanagonparts.com> wrote:
> BenT,
>
> Be careful with spraying that carb cleaner.  The service manager at a shop I
> worked at once lost his eye brows looking for a vacuum leak with carb
> cleaner... ouch!
>
> Really high idle on a late model usually means bad idle stabilizer control
> unit.... ouch again!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff

Jeff,

It's really not so bad if you smoke cigars while doing it. OK, use
WD-40 instead. Actually, I use brake cleaner. Not much safer than
lighter fluid, I suppose.

BenT
http://members.aol.com/bentbtstr8/myhomepage/index.html

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