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?
>



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