Date:         Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:19:18 -0500
Reply-To:     Richard Golen <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Richard Golen <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU>
Subject:      High Idle Solved
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Hi All,

Once again, thanks to the list for advice, etc. Over the past week or
so (as well as other times) I've tossed around the idea of replacing
the Westy with something newer and (gaag) domestic. But I'd miss the
Vanagon list...been addicted to it for 15 years now.

But to the point. The idle problem as some suggested had to do with
the throttle switch. So I went off to Radio Shack to pick up a cheap
multimeter (and they had the nerve to ask if I wanted to purchase
insurance for it...), came home, disconnected the throttle switch
from the harness, tested it with the meter, and voila...the switch
was not closed as it is supposed to be at idle. I was going to adjust
it with the throttle body in place, but then I noticed that there was
a bunch of electrical tape on the wire leading to the switch.

I took off the throttle body (about 5 minutes to do), and the last
person (not me) to work on the throttle switch apparently spliced the
two wires. Needless to say they were covered in oil and other
assorted dirt. Cleaned it up, shrink tubed the connections, rewrapped
the wires and adjusted the switch so it now turned on at idle.

Put the whole thing back together, plugged the idle stabilizer valve
back, roughly adjusted the bleed screw and started it up. Idled at
about 1200 and then adjusted it back to 900.

One less problem (for now).....took about 45 minutes from start to
finish to do this....

Ric