Date:         Mon, 23 Jan 1995 11:37:48 -0800 (PST)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         dworkin <dworkin@netcom.com>
Subject:      Re: '78 FI blues



					H Steven Dolan
					dworkin@netcom.com

On Sun, 22 Jan 1995 mrmoritz@unity.ncsu.edu wrote:

>  I do have a couple of Q's for the list since I am a virgin at working on 
> the fuel injection system in these buses.
> 
>  1) What is the best book to get to find out how to work on the FI?

Already answered by others better than I could.  I have never gotten past 
"Bentley".

> 
>  2) Is the fuel pump supposed to start working when the ignition is 
>     turned on or just after the engine has been turned over?

The fuel pump works from key on to key off, *but* it gets power from
different places depending on whether you are running (key in "on" 
position) or starting (key in start position).  This changover is
accomplished by the "double relay" mounted on the left side of the plate
separating the fuel tank from the engine compartment.  I "tested" mine by
disconnecting the starter(at the motor), crawling under the car, and
having a friend do the switch while i held the pump (a cylinder over the
left rear wheel). 

> 
>  3) Should I scrap the FI and get a carb (or two)?

I recommend against it very strongly I have put 80K trouble free miles on 
my '78 with nary an FI problem.  Once working these are as bulletproof as 
any VW system (don't ask about my starter problems{grrr}).  Of course, YMMV!

> 
>  Well this is most of it for now, I need to get this bus on the road.  My 
> friends are starting to think they will be driving me around forever.  I 
> have a '73 Camper that I have been tinkering with forever. I plan on 
> putting in all the Westy camper stuff that came out of my dad's '73. (Yes 
> he has one too.  Everyone in my family has a bus or a split.) He took it 
> all out because he didn't want to "carry around all that weight."

Any Westy-stuff you don't want.... don't throw it away.  I am in DC and 
looking ....

> 
>  I enjoy reading all that goes on on the VANAGON list, even though my 
> wife thinks I waste too much time at the computer


This, I think, comes under "Nothing is more boring than watching someone 
use a computer"

'67 Westy				H Steven Dolan
'78 Combi				dworkin@netcom.com
					steven.dolan@bea.doc.gov