Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:23:20 -0400
Reply-To: Andreas Fenner <Andreas@SCRIPTWEB.COM>
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From: Andreas Fenner <Andreas@SCRIPTWEB.COM>
Subject: Re: Tune up help pleeassseee! and oil light !!
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From: Andreas Fenner <Andreas@SCRIPTWEB.COM>
To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Tune up help pleeassseee!
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:02:31 -0400
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From: The Buslady <Route87@AOL.COM>
To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
Subject: Tune up help pleeassseee!
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 11:48:40 EDT
Hey my wonderful VanaFriends !
It's about tune up time....
what needs to be done with the average tune up on our late model vannies?
Granpa said all I could do is change the plugs and new air filter. Isn't the
timing set permanently or something?
I know what to do for an air cooled type 1! Not a fancy FI 2.0 wasserbox!
Hey there,
here is some advise from a fancy 2.1 Liter guy:
1.plugs, if you want to go fancy follow the postings on the 3-prong bosch -
can't hurt anyways
replace the spark cables and distributor cap
2.original air and oilfilter
3.change oil to 20-50 synthetic
4.bleed and replace (dot4) brakefluid - you need a helper and a no.7 wrench
5.bleed and flush coolant liquid / replace with the new red stuff
6. check the wiper blades and replace
7.fill up both tanks for wiper fluid
8.Listen to your engine and check the idle, should be 750 to 800 rpm
9.check transmission fluid
here is the computer (digifant), he resets and compensates for wrong
settings (e.g. distributor)
two things here to visually inspect (and listen !) fuel injectors and
distributor,depending on both the age and mileage of the car consider
replacing (distributors wear out...)
By now you have spent app. $150 and two hours and done a great maintenance
job !
clean your windshields and windows and polish with Rain-X and take your car
for a ride.
check whether it heats up and how fast, possibly replace the thermal switch
and/ot thermostat.
Now you are up to $200 and three hours of fun work and got to know your car
much better while extending the engines live and conserving both fuel and
environment !
check all the lights and functions, e.g. horn and cigarett lighter, let the
car run and check the A/C if it is not running make a decision whether it is
of importance to you and have the A/C serviced.
(Now you need to refill the coolant liquid in the expansion tank as the car
was running enough)
That sound like a fun sunday project, at least to me,
good luck
Andreas
Vanagon GL Wolfsburg, 88
Vanagon GL , 88
Gee,
forgot one little thing : check the belts...
I just got back from a very pretty ride to A.C. and back dropping of my Dad
at a hotel and while driving I noticed something very funny.
I was driving with the A/C on and averaging some 70 mph but neither the
damn' oil pressure warning light came on
nor the needle of the temperature gauge moved - are my instruments broken -
No they aren't I had just changed the thermoswitch.
Tommorrow I will do the same to my other GL 88 and I am quiet curious
whether that could be the solution to overheating thus poor oilfilm /
pressure due to heat and that is exactly what the oil pressure warning
light tells us,
anybody there sharing and agreing to my thoughts ?
Andreas
Vanagon GL Wolfsburg, 88
Vanagon GL , 88