Date:         Mon, 11 May 1998 13:03:15 -0700
Reply-To:     Tom Young <young@SHERLOCK.SIMS.BERKELEY.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Young <young@SHERLOCK.SIMS.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 81 Westy - should it have an O2 sensor or not?
Comments: To: Jack Reed <jack@NTS.GSSC.COM>
Comments: cc: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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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.

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Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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