Date:         Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:47:08 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
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From:         Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject:      Re: I'm back, miss anything? Need an ECU
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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