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Date:         Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:54:42 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Why doesn't fuel shut off?
Comments: To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <472769C5.5010808@gmail.com>
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Skip the apology Mike; yours is not the first mistake made by listees and it sure as hell won't be the last!

Your posts are also vastly entertaining, which is important. :)

On 10/30/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote: > > Darn. Geza, I hate it when it is demonstrated to me -- yet again -- that > I am a moron. I SWEAR that I emailed Ken Lewis about his monitor to > confirm that if it is mounted with the pcb above the display, that left > = rich. On a stack of Bibles, Qurans, Torahs, Sutras and any other holy > text you care to produce I would swear that he confirmed this. I have > sifted through all my emails and can't find his response, though, so > that's just hearsay and inadmissible. > > But, on his website, plain as day is the statement, "I mounted it upside > down i.e. solder side up so the dot representing a lean mixture is to > the left and rich is to the right. > > Lefty leanie, righty richie. > > So my fuel is being cut off on downgrades with foot off pedal and engine > speed above 1500 (or so) rpm, just as promised. > > I have yet again wasted my time and the valuable attention of the > listees while chasing down the wrong rabbit hole in search of the reason > for my 15 to 16 mpg fuel "economy." Drat. I owe everyone an apology. > > -- > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott > 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") > 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano > KG6RCR > > On 10/29/2007 9:52 PM Geza Polony wrote: > > > RU positive you got that meter in right side up? Sure it isn't reading > full > > lean, the way it ought to? >

-- Jake 1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" www.crescentbeachguitar.com http://subyjake.googlepages.com/


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