Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:19:48 -0700
Reply-To: Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: An intro and Throttle Body leak question
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Susie,
You've found part or all of your problem. It will be money well spent....
Steven
91 Westy
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Susie Ingham <dingham605@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi-
> I've been a lurker here for a while, I thought i would introduce myself and
> ask a question.
> My husband and i have been bringing a 1984 Westy back to life. It had been
> sitting for 8 years when we bought it last summer, it was not running. long
> story short after much toil and trial ( we're not the most experienced
> mechanics) we got it running pretty well and took it out for our maiden
> camping trip last week-end. All went well except for a couple of minor
> glitches. before I get into that I'll give you a brief list of what we've
> done on the van so far.
>
>
> Compression good right around 175 on all 4 cylinders, according to our test
> New ECU ( I know they "never" go bad but ours was) coil, plugs, plug wires,
> shad injectors cleaned, new fuel pressure regulator, replaced all fuel
> lines, vacuum advance unit was replaced
> There is no catalytic convertor, it is just a hollow shell.
> now in order to get it running relatively well, Hubby had advanced the
> timing-- otherwise the throttle body response was very slow. There seems to
> be a leak in the shaft of the Throttle body-- we switched it out with
> another ( used) and it too leaks around the shaft and has a poor fit
> between the butterfly and the housing.
>
> On our trip we had these two issues...
> a couple of times it died at a stop sign.
> it got terrible gas mileage ( around 12 mpg)
>
> So now we are contemplating buying a rebuilt throttle body ( at 350
> dollars, ouch) but I'm a little bit hesitant in spending the cash if it's
> not going to fix it for sure. BTW we know there's a leak in the tb because
> we blow smoke into the vac line and it pretty readily escapes through the
> TB.
>
> so yes it does seem like a tb is in order, but like I said I hate to part
> with the cash-- does it seem likely that a new Tb is warranted? We haven't
> taken it to a mechanic yet, our plan was to replace the Tb, then take it to
> the mechanics to have everything adjusted if needed.( Afm, etc)
>
> what do you think?
> thanks in advance, Susie
>
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