Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:23:20 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: intake gasket?
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hi,
yes...
whistling and similar sounds ..'hiss' for example.
make sure your throttle switch is making contact at idle.
it can't really idle right without that input to the ecu - at least as far
as I'm cocerned.
I swear if I find time I will write up and offer my list of the ..
say the top twenty things that have to be right ..but it's more than that ,
might 50 things , or more even.
When all those are right ...every adjsutment and sensor/input, fuel
pressure, plug wires etc..etc.
when all of it is really pretty right ..
then they act exactly like they are suppossed to.
many waterboxer vanagons are only runnning so-so ..the ones I see anyway,
which is like 50 vanagons a year or more. There are a lot of things to
check on them to make sure they are right really.
The tune up parts per se ....rarely why they don't act right. But those
have to be right too of course, but the 'tune up parts' per se , are not the
weak area at all.
And very commonly I get waterboxer vans to run right after they have had
lots of parts repalced by fancy shops and big money spent ...but the result
still not produced from all that. Mostly I check, adjust, and clean/treat.
The parts themselves are pretty well made actually. I only use Bosch tune
up parts, they hardly wear in my expereince.
here's one for ya all ..
how many members don't know, or forgot, that there is a felt pad under the
dist rotor on a 1.9 WBXR that's for holding a few drops of oil to lube the
centrifual advance mechanism ???
I have yet to see one of those that was at all oily like it should be in
my shop ..
not one of the last 50 1.9 wbxr engines I have worked on had any oil in that
felt pad there.
and sad to say ..
you can pay shops all day long to replace tune up parts, and many will never
even do that simple little service.
Other than the joke head gasksets on waterboxer engines ..
they really are not fundamentally weak at all..
it's the people involved that's the weak area ...the owners that do or don't
service things on them ..and the shops that don't attend to the little
details.. It's not the engines..it's the people involved that nead to up
the level some. I feel sorry for the poor vans sometimes ...they are just
excellent vehicles.
I see things like a grand's worth of fancy wheels and tires ..
yet the nut holding the steering wheel on is scary loose. Just dumb stuff
like that all the time. It's the norm almost ......I'm not exagerating that
much either.
page 24.25 A and B ..
for vac hoses on 1.9 wbxr engines ...that's the late version I think.
there are two versions..
all the same for 83 and 84 ...for 85 ...the early ones are the 83/84 version
...the later ones are slighly different. Bit cofusing on the hoses and
junctions ...but the drawing is quite good actually.
scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grungy" <grungy@GRUNGY.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: intake gasket?
> Got the old gaskets off - wasn't too hard once I got it started with
> a screwdriver and a mallet.
>
> What am I listening for with a listening tube?
> Whistling noises?
> I was doing the propane test, except the idle is so random that it
> didn't prove anything.
>
> I'm reasonably sure that the left side intake is tight now, with
> replacement hoses and seals.
> Still have to do the right side and go to FLAPS to pick up new injector
> seals.
>
> There's a forest of other vacuum lines to check.
> *sigh*
>
> At 12:03 PM -0800 3/12/11, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>>
>>be extra careful about leaks at the intke runner boots....those like to
>>leak.
>>I use a 'listening tube' to fine intake leaks sometimes ...a two
>>foot long hose, about 3/8 inch ID.
>>scott
>>www.turbovans.com
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Grungy" <grungy@GRUNGY.COM>
>>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>>Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 8:01 AM
>>Subject: intake gasket?
>>
>>>Injectors out - d'oh! - that was easy.
>>>FLAPS should have seals this afternoon.
>>>
>>>Old intake manifold gasket appears to be glued to the intake manifold.
>>>Hard black stuff with paper faces.
>>>Paper face I can see is very scratched.
>>>
>>>I have a replacement gasket, but can't easily get the old one off,
>>>and I could scratch up the intake during removal. Does the collected
>>>wisdom here say replace it or use the old one?
>>>Should I get some kind of high-temp Permatex to fill in the scratches
>>>on the old one's paper face?
>
>
> --
>
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