Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:57:34 -0800
Reply-To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Injector Ordeal-OVER!!!!
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A lesson to us all to step back and consider the
numerous possibilities instead of attacking what we
*know* to be wrong. This can apply to the rest of
life, as well. Thanks for the blow-by-blow that has
immensely improved my own awareness of the van's
systems and operation.
Stephen
--- Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
wrote:
> Hey all right ............this just adds to the lore
> of vanagon tech war
> stories............good for laughs later. And you
> never blew your cool the
> whole time quite, either. And several people
> suggested checking that you're
> getting spark, as you mention.
> One moral of the story is 'CHECK the Basics " ! !
> Always check basics.
> Takes a second or two to check for spark of course.
>
> The world finally makes sense again ! YAy !
> Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Vdub Guy
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 9:27 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Injector Ordeal-OVER!!!!
>
> OK, just got the Vanagon started. The more
> complicated this problem got, the
> more convinced I was that I'd find something really
> easy/stupid. When I
> discovered what the problem was, my first thought
> was to sell the Vanagon,
> drop off this list, and hope you good people forget
> who I am, because I am
> really embarrassed to tell you what it was. I had
> been thinking over the
> past couple of days what had I done to the van prior
> to pulling the
> injectors? OK, I had changed the ground strap from
> underneath the relays to
> the head-easy to miss getting one of the grounds on
> the head. Thoroughly
> searched all over the left side of the engine-that
> wasn't it. This morning I
> remembered that about a month ago I had pulled the
> distributor. But, I had
> driven the van quite a bit since then. What the
> hell, worth taking a look
> at. It looks as though I did not tighten the clamp
> enough around the
> distributor-it had riden up enough that it was not
> turning! Pushed it down,
> tightened the clamp-van fired right
> up. Soooooo, it wasn't the injectors, I didn't fry
> the ECU (whew!), it
> wasn't the fuel pump, etc., etc. Several folks had
> asked if I was getting
> spark-had I checked that days ago I would have found
> it. I was too
> pig-headed to think it was anything but related to
> the injectors. At least I
> didn't start slamming the company that cleaned them
> (WhitchHunter), or I
> probably would have sold the van and dropped out of
> sight! Now, I'm heading
> out to take a drive and see how it runs with clean
> injectors! Thanks
> everyone for your help and support. Jeff (feeling
> very foolish)
>
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