Welcome to the plethora of vanagon information aka the list! Wish I could help, I'm still learning my diesel! Velma 82 1.9L AAZ td westy On Feb 14, 2014 2:00 PM, "Neil N" <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > There's a electrical switch on the throttle body. On the 2.1 it can be > a pain to adjust. Mechanic may have attempted to adjust it. The switch > can fail and-or be corroded or mangled enough that it's nearly > impossible to adjust while throttle body still mounted, or at all. One > can replace the switch or just the entire throttle body if other parts > like throttle shaft are worn too far. > > A few pics showing switch adjuster cam etc. : > > https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/New1988Westy#5748198481366002162 > > The cam on this switch was seized up. The metal on the adjuster cam is > soft. > > There should be lots of info in the archives on this part here: > > http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S1=vanagon > > search "throttle body switch" "throttle switch" > > On 2/14/14, Art Jury <kf7gd7@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi I have just joined the Vanagon religion with a 1990 vanagon Carat. > > > > The mechanic that did the work charged an hour labor and replaced the > > Throttle body (claimed it read open when he checked it). > > > -- > Neil n > > Blog: tubaneil.blogspot.ca > > '88 Westy http://tinyurl.com/c8rlw6p > > '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ > > Vanagon VAG *Gas* inline-VR Engine Swap Group: > > http://tinyurl.com/d7gd5ej > |
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