Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 19:31:55 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: '83.5 westy starts, runs well, stalls, won't restart
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that's not how I would un-flood a waterboxer engine, or any engine with an
air flow meter with it's flap inside.
Waterboxers will unflood with the normal 'hold the petal down and keep
cranking' method normally.
But if it did flood and die at the end of a test drive ............that's
not normal, and indicates something isn't right.
Just seeing how it idles , cold and warm, is a simple test. It should idle
steadily of course.........like you'd expect in any car.
I don't think that 1.9 waterboxers are the best 'idlers' there are in the
car world, but most of the time they can be adjusted to idle decently
enough.
Don't know how familiar you are with watertboxer vanagons - if you are, and
you can get it at a low enough price, then start massaging and tuning it to
full health, great. If you don't know where to start............either don't
get it, or invite the seller to get it fixed properly, or get lots off the
price.
You'd like to start with either a known thing it needs that you know you can
fix...........like say an alternator not charging or a starter, or something
that's at least working right to start with.
Bit far from you.........and I need to check with this one friend about if
she wants this 83.5 Westy of mine.......but I've got a sharp looking, and
great driving one, with 2.1 engine in it too, plus other upgrades. it's
somewhere in the 5K to under 7K range. You could drive it anywhere, I put
practically hundreds of hours of work into it recently.
Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Wietor" <wietorg@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 6:29 PM
Subject: '83.5 westy starts, runs well, stalls, won't restart
> My wife has pop-top envy, so we are starting to look at campers with less
> rust than my Van O'White. Hope to purchase in the next few months.
> Test drove the 83.5 1.9 manual. Drove fairly well, but stalled when we
> returned from the test-dive and would not restart.
> Is this a flooding issue? The nice lady who owns it mentioned something
> about pulling the fuel pump relay, cranking, then replacing the relay.
> Not a deal-breaker if the price is right, just wondering if I am missing
> something.
> TIA/George in Grand Rapids, MI
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