Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:54:57 -0800
Reply-To: "SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: "SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Organization: Cosmic Reminders
Subject: Re: Volksiebus - 88 Transporter - Rough Running Engine
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lol John..
Have you heard about relationships that were strained due to shortage of
Vanagon Reliability issues ?
I have , it happens. All the more reason to understand them very well.
They really are not that complicated at all.
About the very worst thing
they can have is truly ellusive electronic glitches....but those are
pretty rare actually in my experience.
the vast majority of the time whatever ails them is very, very fixable.
and why anyone would not have a whole set of known-good spare fuel
injection parts just for substitute-type testing and self-rescue is just
beyond me.
They don't have to be expensive or hard to get.
I just got, for example..at a pick n' pull junkyard that I know pretty
well...a whole 94 Subaru Legacy wiring harness ( just a bear to get out
of the car , not easy at all ) .....the whole EFI harness plus the ECU,
plus an Air Mass Meter hanging on the wires ..
heck ..
I would charge 8 to 100 for the ecu ..at least 75 for an AMM and up to
150 for the harness..
I jokingly offered the older guy there 50 bucks..( I would have paid $
175 with no complaint at all )
he said 'fine.'
I paid them $ 100 ...and it was cheap at that !
about getting parts in junkyard..or from any decent parts store ..or
your VW dealership ..
'Relationship' ...it makes all The Difference in the World if you
develope a relationship with the people you deal with in those worlds.
It only took me about 50 years to learn that one really well.
Re the spare known-good parts .....if you don't have another Air Flow
Meter or distributor or ECU to try when you're having weirdness that you
can't figure out ..how'r ya gonna get very far on these fine machines
when they don't behave ??
Many shops are just as lost as many non-professional vanagon owners are
..so you gotta figure it out yourself to be assured of Vanagon Success.
well, 'reality' is a 'loaded' word, I don't use it really.
there's only 'Perception' I think..
it only appears to us that this 'movie we call life' is 'real' ..
we don't actually actually know that it is. It only looks like it might be.
Earth could be a grain of sand on a beach in another Universe for all we
actually truly truly know.
I suppose I could say 'the reality of the sitation is that there is a
blockage or leakage of fluids or electrons going on that is keeping your
vanagon from running really right'.
I still am reluctant to use the word, even in a reasonable way like that.
I trimmed I trimmed !
S.
On 1/18/2014 7:53 PM, JRodgers wrote:
> Scott you are right. Reliability is key! Nubiles don't like to be kept
> waiting on the side of the road and get quite disturbed while you are
> behind, over, or underneath getting black grease on your fenners
> massaging the bumps on your machine that broke down when you ought to be
> in the van comforting her and massaging her bumps with your clean
> fenners! Nubiles also get quite disturbed when waiting time begins to
> exceed the period that their perfection remains intact, and reality
> begins to emerge from underneath the paint and powder as it wears off
> and fades!
>
> Yessiree, good reasons to learn how to maintain reliability in your
> Vanagon.
>
