Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:19:33 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: I'm back, miss anything? Need an ECU
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LOL!!
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com> wrote:
> Yeah you missed something; we voted you off the island.
> Actually I was wondering just yesterday what had happened to you (I was
> cleaning out my mailboxes).
> You mean to say you haven't moved yet? I thought that was what you were
> doing all this time... like maybe one armload at a time, on foot- or
> driving
> your Westy both ways, which I assume would be only slightly slower. : )
>
> Cya
> Robert
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:31 PM
> Subject: I'm back, miss anything? Need an ECU
>
>
> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been ignoring Vanagon traffic for a couple months, getting ready to
>> move my family and our two home businesses to our new house in Bend,
>> Oregon.
>>
>> I took our 84 Westfalia, Mellow Yellow, to the shop, Hugo's Foreign Car
>> in Encinitas, so they could give it the once-over before I drive it,
>> towing a small utility trailer, the 1,000 miles from here to our new
>> house. Asked them to look into this odd idle-stumble thing that has had
>> me puzzled for over a year (engine idles fine for the first minute, then
>> starts to miss, rpms drop, engine dies -- pressure on gas pedal prevents
>> this, but there is this flat spot when accelerating out of idle, which
>> suddenly goes away the engine takes off just fine). Their sniffer found
>> that when the engine went into this seizure, the mixture got real lean.
>>
>> They fussed around with the air flow meter as it was a bit out of
>> adjustment, but this didn't help.
>>
>> Last year I plugged in a loaner ECU and it did not change the behavior.
>> But the shop plugged their One Known-To-Be-Good ECU into the van and the
>> engine ran just fine. He doesn't have another, but he'll look around
>> tomorrow morning.
>>
>> Anyone know of an ECU for an 84 that seems to be good? My onboard O2
>> sensor shows the mixture is just fine when running, but I'd like to take
>> care of this issue before the move.
>>
>> Call me at 760 519 0193 or email me at j.michael.elliott(AT)gmail.com
>>
>> --
>>
>> 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
>>
>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
Crescent Beach, BC
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
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