Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 15:51:34 PDT
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From: ui775@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Alistair Bell)
Subject: back on line
Jeepers, the mail system on Victoria freenet has been
down for a week. Its pretty frustrating reading the
incoming mail and not being able to butt in. Kinda
like keeping your mouth shut in a company meeting.
Anyway, let me add my bit...
carb synching.
Make sure that all of the hoses assoc. with
fuel/air system are good.
Check central idle air and fuel adjustment
screws to see if they really work. Sometimes
the central idle system fuel shut-off solenoid
sounds like its working but isn't.
Any play in throttle shaft?
Points and timing ok?
I have spent/wasted lots of time snynching my 72's
carbs. Finally got old Werner, the aircoolled guru,
to do them right. He had no CO meter (by the way,
somebody out there must know how to take the mV
signal from an oxy sensor and use in place of a
CO meter), but he got the beast running smoothly.
Oil
For some reason I have 10W-40 in my jetta
powered van. I don't like it and am changing to
Mobil-1 this weekend. Reason? the new engine runs
hotter than the old diesel, (I have to get an
alternator cooling duct/shroud from a late model
Audi to keep it cooler), and I notice a definite
loss of pressure when the needle creeps past the
LED in hot idle situations. I theorize viscosity
breakdown. BTW, the previous owner had put in a
switch to turn on the rad fan, I used only on
slow steep hills last summer with the diesel.
I rewired to the stock situation and the fan
does come on now when the needle is halfway
between the LED and the far right. It is
important that there is NO air in the cooling
system as the thermo switches are at the top of
the rad - in "air" if not bled!
My van is Alpin Weiss (these German names for colours
both attract and repel me - maybe reflective of the
ambigious relationship my ancestors had with the
Hun!).
Joel, the colour code is L90, for your dbase!
Phew!
Have a great weekend,
Alistair