Well it's now official. Took ole Westy in to the doctor this morning for a brain scan and he confirmed a malignant tumer. So, need a new brain for an '84 digijet. The one that is in there is a Bosch. I wrote the numbers in my book but am too lazy to trudge through the cold and dark to get it from the basement right now. I am reliably informed that last year VW came out with a new ECU because the current crop are a disaster. I inferred that this will work on my '84. The only snag is the cost - $C700. That's about $US526. Do any of you folks have an words of wisdom on making this changeover? Noticed some traffic about rust on the hookup side of the body. I recently gutted the body so I could do some repairs to a wheel well. Some twit had welded in a new quarter panel and left a wide gap between the old body metal and the new piece. Inside behind the wall panels was full of dirt with a layer of mud 1" deep in the channel! Cleaned it all out and replaced the insulation. That's when I discovered the rear heater was leaking but won't dwell on that. It's another long story. Anyhow, it so happened that before I had all the cabinets and panels back in, I left Westy out in the rain. (Actually, that's a redundancy. "out" and "in the rain" are the same thing here in winter.) When I started to replace the panels, discovered the stiffening channels were full of water and it was obviously coming in around the hookup fittings. Pulled them all out, put a bead of silicon around the edges, and screwed them back in. Tested them today and no more leaks.
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