Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 23:01:34 -0400
Reply-To: Chris S <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Chris S <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Maintenance Saga: '84 Westy
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I posted all the info about DJ code WBX motors on Samba and here at some point in the past. Sorry but I don't have a link handy.
Yes, I meant adjust when I said tweak. You would use the voltage reading from the O2 sensor to get the mixture right. Alternatively you can buy one of the clever and magical LED o2 monitors.
Chris.
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Dnia May 13, 2011 o godz. 11:34 Steve Williams <sbw@SBW.ORG> napisał(a):
> At 06:39 AM 5/13/2011, Chris S wrote:
>> Good post about the 2.3. I always wondered about the mileage, and I wonder
>> how it would perform if you installed DJ-code ECU and dizzy.
>
> I'm not familiar with that. Got a pointer to more information?
>
>> Has Go-Westy tweaked the air flow sensor at all to compensate for the larger
>> displacement?
>
> No, they don't modify the air flow sensor. It can be adjusted.
>
> That's why I took it to them for the smog. I was worried that it can
> be a little tricky to set the air flow sensor correctly. They did it
> when they installed the engine, but a few weeks later, when I
> suspected a faulty air flow sensor, the shop in Chicago who replaced
> it had a hard time getting it set right. The Chicago shop was on the
> phone with GoWesty for quite awhile before they were
> satisfied. (Then it turned out the real problem was a clogged fuel
> filter, which may have been screwing with the mixture. Sigh.)
>
> Back to last weekend: GoWesty had suggested I get a "pre-test" in the
> Bay Area before heading down to them. I went to a random test-only
> shop. They found the emissions were fine. But they said they
> wouldn't be able to pass it because "the timing is way off." In
> fact, the test-only shop didn't know how to check the timing on a
> Vanagon. The timing was fine, and it would have passed on the first try.
>
> I'm sure there are emissions testing stations in the Bay Area that
> know how to properly test Vanagons. But Smitty's, around the corner
> from GoWesty in Los Osos, certainly does. And I like long drives on
> the California coast in springtime. So I didn't regret going down
> there at all.
>
> Speaking of fuel filters, last weekend GoWesty installed this kit to
> eliminate the small, square forward fuel filter:
>
> http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=23266
>
> My van was one of those that also had the big fuel filter, and it was
> time to renew the filters, so it only cost $12 more to eliminate the
> small filter.
>
> Various GoWesty people have various opinions about keeping or
> eliminating the small filter. I'm a fan of simplicity, and I'm
> willing to believe one filter does just about as good a job as
> two. Since I've been held up by a clogged filter far from home, I
> carry spare filters with me. Next time I have to crawl under the van
> in the middle of nowhere to replace the filter, I'll only have to
> replace one, not two.
>
> Anybody want my spare small filter? Free to a deserving camper in
> the Bay Area. It's this one:
>
> http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=3137
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