Date:         Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:30:51 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Yucatan trip report (not mine)
Comments: To: Ed <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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there you go ! ...........that's the kind of creativity I was thinking of ~!
good goin' man.
scott
( no injection timing needed with your emergency set up either )


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed" <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: Yucatan trip report (not mine)


> Speaking of keeping moving with a mechanical failure, one morning I broke
> a
> Kugelfischer fuel injection pump belt on a '72 BMW 2002tii on the way to
> work.  Faced with being stranded in rush hour traffic with a totally
> inoperable engine, I wired the windshield washer pump wires to the cold
> start valve (an electric fuel spray valve in the intake plenum) and
> supplied
> pulses of gas to the engine by activating the washer pump switch.  I can't
> say that it ran smoothly or that shifting gears was easy (the washer
> switch
> was on the turn signal stalk on the RIGHT side of the steering column) but
> I
> made it back home and drove my other car to work, making it there only
> about
> 30 minutes later than normal.
>
> I don't have this BMW now but I kept it until a few years after I bought
> my
> Vanagon in '91 (required Vanagon content).