Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:15:34 -0800
Reply-To: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Injector Ordeal-OVER!!!!
In-Reply-To: <477BD8C6.1070804@gmail.com>
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As Per "Gilligans Island".
Vegetables grown from radioactive seeds? After eaten, everyone has one
super powerful sense. (eyesight etc.)
Cell phone exposed to microwaves? Flawless cell coverage!
Neil.
On Jan 2, 2008 10:32 AM, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Uh, so how well is your cell phone working now?
> --
> 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
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> On 1/2/2008 8:43 AM Michael Diehr wrote:
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> > Hey, don't feel bad. This morning I was making coffee and reading a
> > website on my cellphone. Stuck the cellphone in the microwave oven
> > and stood there for a minute trying to figure out why the web browser
> > on my cold cup of coffee wasn't working :-)
> >
> >
> > On Dec 29, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Vdub Guy wrote:
> >
> >> 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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Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"
http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
Engine swap beginings: http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
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