Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:33:00 -0700
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: WTB: Injector Driver Module
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"Sounds like yer 84 is falling apart on you, ECU, Spark Plugs, Water
Faucet, et al. What gives Mr Squirrel?"
Normal maintenance, my friend, normal maintenance.
Yes, there is some kinda weird engine cutout that occurs only when it's
da** hot and I'm climbing long steep grades. This surface for the first
time two summers ago. But didn't occur last summer. But did this summer.
Science is baffled.
My Ken Lewis O2 measuring gizmo says the engine goes LEAN when the
engine cuts out--so it could be my ECU going on a hunger strike or some
other fuel-delivery problem.
Mark Drillock says he has a spare ECU for me to use for , and that's one
thing worth trying.
The water faucet thing. Well, it looks like I got an early part from
last year when the parts had just been put into production. The leak is
a Known Issue. Bus Depot and Cherie, AKA, the "Skylight Gal" (GFAB
Manufacturing Ltd), have stepped up to the plate and are sending a new
pressure-tested unit.
W/r/t the spark plugs. Man, I don't know what to do. Dennis Haynes, who,
in my estimation, ranks up with the sainted Bob Hoover of air cooled VW
engine fame (a man whom I was honored to receive personal coaching from
in 2007 when my '71 bay window blew its engine -- he lived about five
miles from my house) says the plugs will turn my engine into toast and
probably cause impotence.
This can't be good.
But other folk who have been using these plugs for, like, ever have no
complaints. These would be the Scott Daniels of our list fame, and the
tencentlife of The Samba fame. Off-record, I've received technical and
well-argued private e-mails both pro and con about these things.
Hoover always discouraged anything that would improve the engine's
performance, feeling that the VW engineers optimized their engines for
long life. He did develop several nice modifications for the engines,
but they were done to increase reliability and longevity.
But the Dark Side calls. The increased pep the new plugs provide is
seductive.
--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.
On 08/24/2012 03:06 PM, Old Volks Home wrote:
> Oh, the ECU......also called a "gonkulator"
>
> ;)
>
> Sounds like yer 84 is falling apart on you, ECU, Spark Plugs, Water
> Faucet, et al. What gives Mr Squirrel?
>
