Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:49:39 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Fuel Injectors
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I'm glad you're happy with yours.
Where I am there could be as many as 150 T3 Vanagons running around,
Rogue Valley of southern Oregon.
Maybe 6 of those are air-cooled ones, ok, 10 at the most.
Had an interesting time with an air-cooled one : Some people brought
me one because no one in the area could get it to run on the left cylinders.
Took a wile to find it ...like how can you have good fuel pressure on
the right injectors but not on the left ones ?
Was thinking about that at night ...finally realized a clog in the
fuel line at the cold start injector could cause that ..
sure enough that's what it was.
And that might be why, rather than one loop with 5 injcctors on it, like
Type IV air-engines have ( if fuel injected ) , waterboxers have a 'twin
split' fuel hose and injector layout ...two sides in parallel , , and
nicely, no cold start injector either.
I normally never work on air-cooled ones any more. BTDT too much.
scott
turbovans
On 3/22/2013 12:44 AM, Dan Andrews wrote:
> Dying out? I guess that'll mean more spare parts for mine when it's collectible :)
>
> I just gave mine a service after I took it on a 6000km round trip (Sydney to Cairns and back) - its running fine...
>
> -Dan
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 22/03/2013, at 4:58 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>
>> That would be on a Type IV air-cooled T3 engine.
>> No cold start injector on waterboxers, 83 and up, with Digijet EFI.
>>
>> Generally ..air-cooled vanagons are dying out, lI'd say.
>> Waterboxers are going as strong as ever !
>> scott
>> www.turbovans.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/21/2013 8:49 PM, Dan Andrews wrote:
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> Might be a model thing, but my 1982 T3 has 5x injectors - one for each cylinder and a central 'cold engine' injector...
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On 22/03/2013, at 1:39 PM, MICHAEL H <vwdash80@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>>> hey, all. just a heads up. found a set of 4 injectors for $110 - brand new ! perusing the Samba turned up a lead to Auto Zone. they have GP/Sorensen units which are rebadged Lucas rotary disc units. Bosch injectors use a pintel nozzle. even if your local doesn't list them as available you can order from the main page and use the `free ship to home' feature. they have a promo code to save 20 % to boot. now, I know what you Bosch purists are thinking and I'm with you. however, for under $30 each they'll be adequate to keep the Van running til I get the others rehabbed by WitchHunter. oh, wait. a while back Miguel posted a link to a you tube vid on how to back flush them at home. so, I'm spending money to help the economy while saving money to help my wallet. woo hoo!! it's your Vanagon/Westy. it's your money. it's your decision. I'm just saying ... h t h mike
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