Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 06:43:17 -0700
Reply-To: Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: I'm back, miss anything? Need an ECU
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Off the island?!? No way man, I'm still here. You can't do without me: I
bring much-needed intellect, judgment, and reason to this dump. And a
fondness for rambling on about things barely Vanagon-related (note:
Vanagon content).
Yeah, it's taking forever to get moved! What with buying a new house,
obtaining a loan to buy that house, prepping old (this) house to sell it,
selling it, arranging for handyman to knock down two walls in new house to
make room for a shop, working with four vendors to get the new place ready
for Mrs Squirrel's phone system, tolerating plenty of visits from the new
buyers here, giving daughter time to find a place of her own, getting
massive termite and dry rot work done on old place so it's legal to sell,
... oh heck, read all about the stuff that's been occupying my time w/r/t
making the move on my exciting blog, "Jack and Mrs Elliott Move to Bend"
at http://socal2bend.blogspot.com/
(Some folk in Bend requested that I write about the experience of moving
to then living in Bend. "Jack" Elliott is my nom de keyboard for purposes
of maintaining a trivial amount of anonymity.)
Like all blogs, the oldest stuff is at the bottom, newest at the top.
Vanagon content there, too.
--
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
On 7/30/2008 9:47 PM Robert Fisher 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
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