On Mon, 11 May 1998, Jack Reed wrote: > Here's the question (as well as the embedded problem)...the van has always > had a problem with CO2 being in spec. I've never been able to get it down > to 1.5. I was speaking with a local VW guru who told me that all the FI > equipped motors had an O2 sensor, except that mine doesn't. The > supposition here is that a PO swapped out the current non-O2 manifold for > the prior O2 equipped type. > > I don't buy any of this, but it's worthwhile to pose the question to the > group, maybe I'll get a clue to my unsmoggable issues from someone as > well. I believe the '81's came in two flavors: O2 equiped for California vehicles and non-O2 equiped for Federal models. You might want to check the archives for the AFM "fix" which might correct your problem, assuming everything else is OK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Young young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU Lafayette, CA 94549 '81 Vanagon --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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