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• Re: van fix part deux: intermittant hesitation
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:23:35 -0700
  ...Ignition timing and advance controls, including idle stabilizer. (Sorry, I missed earlier posts and have no time to go hunting - is this an 83...
• Re: Emisson Control unit question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:21:41 -0400
  ...The WB's use the ignition pulse to keep the pump running. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM...
• Re: Miss at idle?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 14 May 2016 05:04:07 -0400
  ...This is a hallowed old technique but it's not safe with modern ignition systems. **Using a scope I've measured roughly 450 volts...
• Re: [NVC] Beware of the Skid Demon
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:47:14 -0700
  ...key > full left and pull on it ) .............you turn off the ignition while > still moving and keep it in gear........ > unfortunately, on a fuel...
• Re: esoteric question about 1.9 distributor
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 19 Oct 2014 10:36:41 -0400
  ...esoteric question about 1.9 distributor The severely retarded ignition at idle does nothing for performance, it only exists for emission control. It is...
• Re: AFM optical pick up
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sat, 10 Feb 2024 18:12:44 -0500
  ...Or an entire new AFM set up? >> >> eRic >> 85 GW ignition >> >> 84 ignition >> >> >> >>> On Feb 7, 2024, at 10:49 PM, Alistair Bell <ragnarhairybreeks...
• Re: Engine thoughts--now Go Westy engine management system
  Historical mailing list - Jason
  Sat, 6 Jan 2018 09:55:54 -0500
  ...Stage one is the fuel/ignition system, stage > two > [no ECU changes needed] 150hp turbo + cooling mods. Turbo engines beat > displacement for those of...
• : Re: Tag an SUV today
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 26 Dec 2000 20:00:23 -0700
  ...day, but new vehicles have much more tightly controlled fuel and ignition systems. I think the new Chev Malibu has 4 or 5 oxygen...
• Re: Wierd (Ignition?) Problem...
  Historical mailing list - Kurt Camealy
  Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:31:12 -0500
  ...Wierd (Ignition?) Problem... > > That sounds like a problem with the Hall Sender. It could be as simple > as a wire in the system losing...
• Re: A/C Trouble shooting - 1991 Carat
  Historical mailing list - David
  Tue, 6 Sep 2016 20:00:46 -0400
  ...Dave On Tuesday, September 6, 2016, John Rodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com> wrote: > Need to trouble shoot this AC system and don't know quite...
• Re: Our beloved digifant
  Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
  Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:27:28 -0400
  ...Seems that the collective wisdom is to put the digifant system back to totally stock, everything at stock spec. Are you guys saying I...
• Re: price for a tune-up
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:47:51 -0600
  ...and replacing the plugs to replacing every part of the ignition and FI system required to get it to perform properly. The $160.00...
• Electrical Woes
  Historical mailing list - Harmon F Seaver
  Thu, 5 Oct 1995 15:02:18 -0500 (CDT)
  I was just redoing the heating system on my '73, and found that once the engine starts, the warm air blower no longer runs...
• '86 GL electrical (sound system) question
  Historical mailing list - Neal Barrentine
  Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:58:41 -0500
  ...I would like to be able to use my stereo without the ignition being on, like at the drive in theatre where they broadcast...
• Auto Club Mobile Engine Diagnosis Service
  Historical mailing list - Thomas D. Hanlon
  Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:27:17 -0700
  ...The MED includes, "battery/charging system, starter cranking system, ignition system, cylinder power, fuel injection/carburetor performance, emission levels." I read today the posts...
• Re: Super high HC on smog test - help
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:41:57 -0400
  ...Ignition system condition, adjustments. Confirm all basic adjustments. Mixture screw only effects idle but if you can change the mixture, then O2 sensor not...
• 2nd Battery Solenoid
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:49:27 -0400
  ...So now I have a two battery system with both in parrallel with each other. When you turn the ignition off it isolates the...
• Re: wiring harness, stalling
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 11 Jun 1997 23:37:52 -0700
  ...My understanding is that the harness works with digifant fuel injection systems but not necessary with digijet systems. As a result I have a...
• Re: Uncle... '91 won't catch
  Historical mailing list - Gary McEachern
  Sun, 23 Feb 2003 09:20:53 -0500
  ...The only remaining >tests on the ignition system listed in Bentley that I haven't done >involve the ECU, which I'm not comfortable...
• Electrical Failures
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 14 May 2011 11:00:06 -0500
  ...The ignition switch is new, and I have power to the "X" circuit when in the "on" position. I have headlights, and can feel...
• Re:Tach was The Berg and springs
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 19 Apr 1995 07:37:33 -0700 (PDT)
  ...back creates significant resistance and if so does this disrupt the > ignition system? DC Well, when I put the tach into my '72, I...
• Re: unexplained power loss - help
  Historical mailing list - don spence
  Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:14:05 -0600
  Distributor cap? Fuel pressure? Did it quit completely? Sudden engine quitting usually indicates ignition. Sputtering or slowly bogging can be ignition or fuel supply...
• Re: DJ-code WBX technical specs
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:32:49 -0800
  ...98 RON - 93 (R+M)/2 ignition type: transistorized hall effect trigger location: distributor fuel system: Bosch Digijet Injection type: multi-point fuel injection...
• Re: Electronic points -waste of time/money?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Rouby
  Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:36:11 -0800
  ...I tap the dizzy, it drops to 0 degrees, the ignition starts to misfire (you can see it on the strobe timing light, the...
• Gas Heat, Ark, etc.
  Historical mailing list - Mark Sheflo
  Sat, 27 Mar 1999 01:12:25 -0800
  ...Your electronic ignition system sounds like a fine upgrade....if only I knew what it included, replaced and how much time it takes to...
• Re: 81 vanagon performance
  Historical mailing list - Jon Joyce
  Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:40:58 -0600
  If you've got a stock fuel and ignition system, even with a tuneup and at peak performance you're talking about an engine...
• 87 GL Intermittantly Not Starting
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Otter
  Mon, 12 May 2003 12:45:39 -0400
  ...So, I figure the ignition switch is OK since juice is getting somewhere. This is very intermittant, so can't really take it to...
• Re: Digijet ignition clarification Q
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:04:51 -0500
  ...My 2.3wbx > is just a stroked out 2.1, and to make things more > exciting, it is using the 1.9 ignition system...
• Help with 12v Dometic wiring
  Historical mailing list - Rick Foster
  Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:41:37 -0400
  ...I checked all the circuits with the a) ingnition off, b) ignition on, and c) with the engine running. I don't have power...
• Re: Frydae - EMP Proofing A Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:50:55 -0700
  ...unground mag so there's ignition, spin prop by hand. you're running . No battery, noelectronics etc. if you push start a diesel vanagon...
• Re: Emissions testing Failed **%%%##$@!!!
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 2 Mar 1996 01:45:29 -0500
  ...Do not mix digijet with dijifant control system. Dijifant has improved idle control,(throttle bypas vs ignition timing), ignition timing and coil control provided...
• Re: Wierd (Ignition?) Problem...
  Historical mailing list - John Philcox
  Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:34:56 -0500
  ...Wierd (Ignition?) Problem... > > > That sounds like a problem with the Hall Sender. It could be as simple > as a wire in the system losing...
• Re: Jerky Van continued
  Historical mailing list - Matt Roberds
  Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:59:20 -0500
  ...often means a problem with the high-voltage side of the ignition system: coil, cap, rotor, wires, plugs. I'd try new cap-rotor...
• Re: Engine Cranks but No Start
  Historical mailing list - Ed McLean
  Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:38:07 -0400
  ...On reading it again I see that the ignition system and starter worked but the fuel injection didn't when the voltage at the...
• 85 Westfalia Weekender fails Evap test.
  Historical mailing list - Tyler Hardison
  Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:02:27 -0700
  ...Failed on the EVAP test, this is where they pressurize the fuel system and test for leaks. Any common places where I should look...
• Re: refridge flame blowout
  Historical mailing list
  16 Jul 96 07:37:32 PDT
  James et al - I have heard through RV dealers that newer propane fridges have an electronic ignition, and they CAN be used while driving...
• Re: Ideas about wiper problem.
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:56:53 EDT
  ...COM writes: << I believe there is a switch that tells the system when the wipers are back in the "park" position but I have...
• Re: Cutting down spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - Brian Atkins
  Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:34:35 -0500
  ...But, besides running hotter, the gap creates a larger amount of resistance, which is hell on an ignition system. The van will probably run...
• Timing light power source - confirmation
  Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:54:09 -0800
  ...All that I read about the sensitive nature of the various ignition and fuel injection system components has me still spooked and the last...
• Re: Vanagon Syndrome in Digijet?
  Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:07:38 -0400
  ...have a loose or bad connection somewhere in the FI or ignition systems that is breaking contact on the bumps. Check all of them...
• Re: cooling system leak
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:32:43 -0700
  ...fatter torque ....4 valves per cylinder, knock sensor ignition.. though an ABA has that, at least in some versions. .. no distributor ...that's nice...
• Updating an old dual battery/suby install: Can I ditch the fridge relay and just a SurePower 1315?
  Historical mailing list - Jay Brown
  Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:56:50 -0400
  Hi Tim, I use a Blue Sea Systems SI 7610 Automatic Charging Relay to control the batteries in my '85 Zetec powered Westy. http...
• Re: Halon Extinguishers, etc.
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:25:16 -0800
  > To me, there seems like too much can go wrong with an auto system. > However, I guess since there is little consequence from an...
• Re: Need Help diagnosing a Non-starting '86 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
  Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:33:57 -0700
  ...I'm assuming that there > is an electrical issue that is affecting both the fuel pump and the > ignition system. > I've cleaned up...
• Re: Stumbling after fuel filter change
  Historical mailing list - don spence
  Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:45:16 -0600
  ...triggered by ignition circuit pulses.) Look for damaged wires, grounding points etc. If the latter, it's a fuel delivery system problem. Check the...
• Re: Snake Oil or Legit?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Foss - Shazam
  Sat, 24 May 2008 18:46:21 -0700
  Well, I have long said that a system is missing from diesel engines.......... an electrical ignitioni source ! ( not counting the glow plugs ) . Shame an...
• Re: Oil pressure warnings, WAS: Mann Oil Filter and lifters, now emissions indicator lights.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 3 Mar 2014 00:08:02 -0500
  ...New York is similar in that the on board diagnostics is used as the emissions system test for 1996 and later vehicles. We have...
• 60,000 volt coil?
  Historical mailing list - William A. McKinley
  20 Aug 96 01:21:37 EDT
  ...Sounds like a great ignition system, but I'm not looking foreward to getting the pis* shocked out of me every time I try...
• No start..Help
  Historical mailing list - Bob Berkemer
  Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:43:55 -0500
  ...is there anything in the system that senses that and won't allow the ignition to kick over? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated...
• Re: price for a tune-up
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:40:20 -0800
  Chris, Where do you get German parts for the ignition system? Most of the Bosch stuff I've seen is now made in Spain...
• Re: Help with van bucking and spitting
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:41:02 -0500
  ...are good in the ignition system, primary and secondary: > > Coil > Distributor > Rotor > Cap > Ignition Wires ************* > Plugs > > Check all your ignition circuit connections: > at the...
• Water in the oil update
  Historical mailing list - Bill Collins
  Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:41:10 -0500
  ...Before doing the engine work, I replaced the idle stabilizer (digijet, so the it's the stabilizer box in the ignition system) and adjusted...
• Re: Fuel Line leaks?
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:00:55 -0500
  ...OF >IGNITION. > Remedy: > REPLACE THE FUEL HOSE ATTACHED TO THE FUEL RAIL AND >INSTALL A NEW SPRING TYPE SELF-TIGHTENING CLAMP. > Notes: > SYSTEM: FUEL...
• Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer Checking engine grounding1
  Historical mailing list - James
  Sat, 14 Nov 2015 23:33:43 -0500
  Dennis, "Just think of audio humming with unbalance circuits or alternator and ignition noises to your radio. " Sorry, no. Alternator and ignition noises (RFI...
• 1.9 parts for sale
  Historical mailing list - McBryde, Connor
  Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:30:33 -0800
  ...Header J-connector pipe, fair condition Complete engine bay wiring harness (all connections labeled) Ignition coil, distributor, transistorized ignition module, relay box idle stabilizer...
• Engine o2 out of spec
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Bergey
  Thu, 9 Nov 2000 20:34:26 -0800
  ...Note this is a California version with electronic ignition and o2 sensor system. most other models have points and no o2. 1980 Westfalia Vanagon...
• Re: Cold Idle Problem
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 8 Sep 2017 14:49:37 -0400
  ...Digifant does this as well but also of course completely controls ignition timing based on the 5BTDC signal from the distributor. Yrs, d
• Re: Air Flow Meter fix by capacitor?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:27:26 -0500
  ...system? It alleviates a particular problem that typically presents as loss of power when driving, cured temporarily (maybe weeks) by shutting off the ignition...
• Head Repair Update
  Historical mailing list - Dave Baker
  Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:12:28 -0500
  ...I want to make darn sure I have no leaks before I put the real stuff back in the cooling system. Well, what do...
• Re: Wierd (Ignition?) Problem...
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:10:35 -0600
  ...It could be as simple as a wire in the system losing contact momentarily, to the Hall Unit actually becoming faulty. Cheapest route to...