Date:         Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:43:36 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Engine stop in 20 sec
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
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On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Scott Daniel  - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> there are no wires to the air box of course, so I imagine you mean the air
> flow meter,
> and what you are saying is you cleaned the connections to the air flow
> meter, including that anti-vanagon syndrome adapter harness, is that what
> you're saying ?

Exactly. It would run for about 20 seconds, as many times as I cared
to start the car, and then run badly and quit. Cleaning the
connections solved the problem.

Jim

>  I'd go looking at the basics, like power to the ecu coming out of the main
> relay,
> make sure power to the fuel pump is happening, that there is fuel pressure,
> It's easy to check if ignition is working while cranking it over.
> It's easy to check if there is injector pulse to the injectors if you have a
> noid light.,
> also......connections to the temp sensor for the ecu.........
>
> It's handy to have a fuel pressure gauge too, just to make sure FP stays
> where it should when it stops after 20 seconds.
> Start every time but die in 20 seconds makes me wonder if the fuel pump is
> staying running after the initial 'key one' pre-run period.
> Of course everyone just turns the key to 'on' first to confirm the fuel pump
> does it's pre-run thing, and not just straight to 'start' , right ?
> Scott
> turbovans
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 7:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Engine stop in 20 sec
>
>
>> Don't know for sure, but when it happened to me the answer was very
>> simple. I cleaned ALL the connectors between the harness and the
>> airbox, including the one where the new pigtail plugs into the
>> original one.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:40 PM, The Westy man <zolo@foxinternet.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was trying to find out why the engine stops after about twenty seconds.
>>> Its an '86 van with 2.1 liter engine.  Harness was changed, all things look
>>> fine.  My digitool is not working for some reason to be able to find what
>>> that can.
>>> Hope someone would know.
>>> Zoltan
>>>
>
>