Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:15:10 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Stalling at stop lights
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Hmmmm! I guess I have had a Senior Citizen brain flatus eruption!!! :-D
I have dug into the old ( and I do mean old) memory banks, and come up
with the dimmest memory of having to stop at a gas station and try and
figure out what was happening to the engine in my 1985 GL with the 1.9L
engine and disconnecting the idle stabilizer valve. But the event may
have happened a few days after I bought my 1988 GL - which was 7 years
ago - and my memory of the event has gotten scrambled together. Very
disturbing - scrambled memory.
You are right. The 85 GL had the 1.9L WBX with the Digijet FI, not the
Digifant, and consequently no Idle Stabilizer Valve.
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver (with Idle Stabilizer Valve - both of us!!!!) :-)
Dennis Haynes wrote:
>No pot stirring!
>86 was the first year for the Digifant, and the 2.1 engine. They went
>together. Maybe you had an 86? Which calipers did you have for the front
>brakes? Single or dual piston. 86 got the later single piston calipers
>with the 15mm rotors. How about the exhaust? Did it have two muffler
>straps and the O2 sensor in the Cat? Also 86 and later.
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>Dennis
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Rodgers [mailto:inua@charter.net]
>Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 10:54 PM
>To: Dennis Haynes
>Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Stalling at stop lights
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>Dennis,
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>I don't mean to stir the pot to much, but........
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>My 85 GL had the 1.9L WBX with the Digifant Fuel Injection.
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>My Bentley clearly shows on page 24.31 Fig 24-115 wiring harness to the
>idle stabillizer for the Digifant FI system on the 1.9L WBX.
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>Also, page 24.46 Fig. 24-182 clearly shows the idle stabilizer control
>valve.
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>Regards,
>
>John Rodgers
>88 GL Driver.
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>Dennis Haynes wrote:
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>>85 1.9 does not have an idle stabilizer valve. Idle stabilization is
>>done by advancing the ignition timing.
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>>Dennis
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>>Of John Rodgers
>>Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 12:05 PM
>>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>Subject: Re: Stalling at stop lights
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>>With the engine warm, diusconnect the idle stabilizer valve. Drive it a
>>bit and see what happens.
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>>I had an 85 GL with 1.9L WBX and it did exactly what you are talking
>>about. I did the test. it was the valve.
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>>John Rodgers
>>88 GL Driver
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>>John Schaper wrote:
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>>>84 1.9L westphalia, manual transmission. Relatively (less than 5K
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>>>new valves and heads. Its been running great with an idle RPM of
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>>>1,000. But over the weekend, while stopped at stop lights, over the
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>>>of 20-30 seconds, the rpm's decline, engine runs rough, engine dies.
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>>Vacuum
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>>>lines new and connected. What else might I look for?
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>>>John Schaper
>>>Assistant Director Ancillary Services
>>>Health Services Agency
>>>P.O. Box 3271
>>>Modesto, CA 95353
>>>209.558.7102
>>>209.558.8320 (fax)
>>>jschaper@schsa.org
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