Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 22:45:12 -0400
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: My van's home again!!!
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Somehow I would doubt that is had a bad ECU, AFM and temp 2 sensor. Also why would one keep running a rebuilt engine not "right" for 500 miles? Running rich = oil dilution and sooting up rings while they should be seating along with trashing the O2 sensor and catalytic converter. As for the oil pressure warning switch why not the correct or quality part with the engine install? Its amazing that the aftermarket can’t get this simple part right.
Dennis
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Marc Perdue
Sent: Sunday, July 3, 2016 3:05 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: My van's home again!!!
Hi all,
My van is back home from the shop again!!! And finally I have some good news to report! For those who have been following my saga, I had to have my engine rebuilt and it was not running right during the 500-mile break-in period. It was running rich, sometimes when I would downshift on the highway to pass (auto), a bunch of smoke would go billowing out the back, and when I would come off the highway, any time the RPMs dropped below 2500, the oil buzzer would come on. The builder had already verified that the engine had good oil pressure.
I took the van in for its 500-mile post-break-in adjustments. He replaced the oil pressure sender with one from the dealer. That problem was solved, but it still wasn't running right. Long story short, he swapped in a known good ECU and a known good AFM and replaced the Temp II sensor and the engine's running like new!
While it was there, I had him replace the shocks and upper control arm bushings too and it's handling a lot differently now. That's going to take some getting used to. It's funny how you adapt to a particular way of handling over time and when your vehicle gets fixed and handles correctly, it's like you have to learn how to drive it properly all over again. Who knew my van was actually capable of turn-in?!?
They did set the Koni shocks to a pretty soft setting and I think I want to firm that up. Anybody know how to do that?
I did make a shocking discovery about the speedo, but I'll cover that in a separate post.
Just overjoyed to have my van back home now!
Marc