Date:         Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:47:12 -0800
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject:      H4 Headlight aim, thanks and..
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First, thanks to those with advice on aiming the Euro-style lights in my 84
"Round-eye"    It seems there were a couple of things going...I had the
lights  a little too high and they're just quite different than my previous
DOT 'dim bulbs'.  I was fixated on seeing the 'light pool' just ahead of the
van in the low beam mode..I guess these lights do that.  In high beam mode,
they are so bright that they tend to draw your attention miles up the road,
yet they still provide much better light at the normal range for highbeams.

  On a second subject:  I visited my 'local' junkyard yesterday trying to
iron-out my recent engine idling weirdness.   Inline 4-VW motor, so delete
now if you are averse to hearing about anything but a pure WBX Vanagon.

  I've traced the unusually fast, and sometimes rising and falling idle
speed to either a faulty ECU or a faulty Idle Control Valve (or the Temp II
sensor).  I ordered the Idle Control Valve and a spare Temp II sensor (a
frequent cause of bad running in  our VW motors) online.  German Auto
Salvage  near Portland, Or. had a pile of used Engine Control Units.  I've
been meaning to have one as a spare, anyhow,  for my frequent travels far
from civilization.  Just $70 for a spare brain.  So I closed my faulty (I
think) Idle Control valve with a pair of vicegrips and drove down to the
junkyard for a new brain...

  He has a number of 2 liter and 1.8liter inline four motors in good shape.
Priced at around $6-800 for a complete long block motor.  He says people
have frequently put the 1.8liter head onto the 2.0liter block..which I am
planning if my 1.8 liter ever gets tired.  He also commented that the VW
1.8liter Turbo motor (some mentioned it as Vanagon transplant option being
done somewhere) never seems to come to his junkyard in good shape..usually
they arrive in pieces..he says.  Just for general information..

  His part's chaser vehicle seems to be a Vanagon...I saw one parked around
the side of his shop building.

  Don Hanson

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