Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 07:46:29 -0800
Reply-To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: So thar I was (Engine wouldn't start)
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Thanks, Scott. I have always wondered about the wisdom of placing
electronics in the engine compartment.
WD-40 every darn thing before attempting starting after massive storm
blasting sideways rain for 24 hours -- 5 minutes. Having the engine start.
Priceless.
--
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 12/5/2007 12:19 AM Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
> If I was making a 1.9 waterboxer into my 'go anywhere , do anything' world
> class vehicle, I'd move the ecu to under the back seat. It might be possible
> to do it without extending wires.
> I haven't tired, ( yet ) but it's telling that for the next model 86 and
> 2.1, the ecu went under the back seat.
> ALL cars usually have their ecu in the passenger cabin these days. It IS the
> best environment for sensitive things, after all, like people and ecu's.
>
> I always have WD-40o on board, and in such a situation, I'd probably spray
> down the engine BEFORE trying to fire 'er up.
> I spray EVERYTING, except into the alternator. Everything. All electrical
> connections, the coil, the distributor etc. it can not hurt anything. I do
> belts even. Makes them not squeal so much.
> Now if I was just working on this 82 diesel westy with 98 subaru 2.2 that
> won't produce heat in the heater system instead of doing this
> ............... !! dang !
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> John Bange
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:23 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: So thar I was (Engine wouldn't start)
>
>> A list member p-mailed and suggested that rain may have entered the engine
>> compartment through the air vent on the side of the van. Considering that
>> the wind was strong enough to force water through the pop-top fabric, was
>> easily 40 mph, and the downpour was actually a side-pour (rain was blowing
>> horizontally), is it possible that buckets might have gone in the vent?
>> Perhaps causing the engine to just turn over and over but not catch?
>>
>> The weather side was the driver's side, i.e., the side of the engine with
>> the ECU, the ignition coil.
>>
>
> I could see that happening. Not so much from water RUNNING down the vent,
> but from water coming in as a fine mist, blasted in and down the air intake.
> The intake comes out right next to the coil, with nothing actually stopping
> air (and its liquid contents) from coming right in. On the road, any water
> that gets in just runs out, and any fine mist STAYS a fine mist due to the
> engine heat; but parked, in high wind.... Yep. I could definitely see that
> happening.
>
> --
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
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