Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:21:59 -0500
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Yet Even More About My Injectors
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I doubt any of us are getting sick of your posts. More likely some of us
wish we were close enough to help.
Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Vdub Guy
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:34 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Yet Even More About My Injectors
Sorry folks,
Are yoyu getting sick of my posts this week? Trust me, I'm getting sick
of asking questions about this!! It was suggested to me that I check the
injectors with a VOM to see if they are shorted out. Took both my digital
and analog meters and checked. Analog meter set to 1K, touch leads
together and needle pegs to zero-touch leads to injectors-meter pegs to
zero. Sooooooo, does this mean that I received the injectors back shorted
out, I installed them, turned the key and blew out my Euro spec ECU? Then
hours later put my original ECU back in and blew it too? I hope not.
Anybody in N. Virginia willing to let me plug my ECU's into their (1.9)
Vanagons and see if they are any good? If the ECU's are in fact ruined, I
have a decision to make. I have a Subaru 2.2 I was going to put into the
Vanagon, last thing thing was saving up the $$ to have Tom Shiels modify
the harness. I can't afford another ECU. Well, I can, but I don't see the
sense in pouring more money into it at this point. N
ow, when I bought this Vanagon 15 months ago it had a seized engine. First
thought was a Subaru conversion, but I found a 2.1 and followed Jim
Thompson's write up and put it in using the Digijet injection. It ran
beautifully, so well, in fact that I thought the hell with the Subaru
conversion. Then I ran it low on fuel coming back from Everybus in
April-VERY low. After filling up, I barely made it home. Found the fuel
filter totally clogged. Replaced that and it was running again-but it
never had the power it did originally. Changed out the fuel filter again a
month ago, but it was clean. That led me to think that the injectors may
be the problem. Sent them off to be cleaned and sure enough they come back
with a report showing 3 of the 4 were in bad shape. Great, I thought, this
had to be were my lost power was. Christmas day I put my newly cleaned
injectors back in, eagerly anticipating taking it for a drive-now here I
am with a dead Vanagon. Wish I had it back with the low power!
Jeff
PS- I don't want this message to start a debate about the merits of the
Subaru conversion!
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