Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:28:31 -0600
Reply-To: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
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From: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject: Re: Blue Syncro oceanside
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Stacy,
How is Oceanside, NY doing after the storm? One of my suppliers - Chudnow -
was flooded by the storm but I've not heard how the area is doing in
general.
Thanks, Tom Hargrave
www.stir-plate.com
www.towercooler.com
www.kegkits.com
www.grow-sun.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Stacy Schneider
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 12:14 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Blue Syncro oceanside
Just at the theater in Oceanside and saw a nice 86ish silver blue
parked on the street . Be glad the keys were not in it ,I would have taken
it home .
Nice clean Syncro .
-Stacy
On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
> I havenot run into the problem of a shorted 02 coax myself, but i have
> read about it, and I have seen a whole new coax wire tapped into the
> original one near the ecu.
>
> re " when the coolant temp sensor told the ECU to turn the heater off
> on the sensor. "
>
> Oxygen sensor heat is full time, any time thekey is on, from the main
> relay, pretty sure.
>
> scott
> turbovans
>
> On 12/28/2012 10:39 AM, David Clarkson wrote:
>> Greeting vanagonauts. I recently (approx 500 miles ago) replaced my
>> O2 sensor after having a problem with my 1990 Wesfalia that caused it
>> to bog down and quit running after warming up. I am assuming that
>> this happened when the coolant temp sensor told the ECU to turn the
>> heater off on the sensor. When I unplugged the sensor the problem went
away.
>> Since my sensor had more than 60K on it which is the VW replacement
>> interval, I replaced the sensor. After Installing the sensor
>> everything seemed to be back to normal. One other bit of info that is
>> worth mentioning is that I have an O2 sensor monitor that indicated
>> that everything went completely rich when the problem occurred. It
>> showed this type reading with the original sensor issue and the new
>> sensor issue. My thoughts are that the problem might be with the
>> small guage coax type cable that sends the sensor signal to the ECU
>> grounding out from the inner sensor wire to the outer metal sheathing
>> that I believe is grounded to the chassis. I had a similar problem
>> with this cable once before and I believe that I cut a small piece
>> off of the end and put the connector back on. Knowing that most types
>> of coax cable will eventually fail, I am wondering if anyone has had
>> a problem similar to this with this cable and if so where did you
>> find a replacement. I believe that it is wrapped with the other
>> wires in the main harness section that goes to the ECU so I would
>> probably just run another piece that would be wire-tied to it rather
>> than risk disturbing the rest of the original harness and causing a
>> problem with another wire. Maybe there is another problem. I think
>> that if it were a problem with the not so old coolant temp sensor I
>> would have some type of symptom with the O2 sensor unplugged. I
>> thought that I would pick the collective craniums of the group since,
>> as is usually the case someone has BTDT with this issue. I'm just not
>> the type to want to continue riding around with the o2 sensor
>> unplugged with the price of gas and the extra emissions that I would
>> produce that are not good for the environment or my catalytic
>> converter. Thanks for any input that you have. I am suddenly having
>> to drive my older van a lot due to a temporary employment situation and
it's begging for attention.
>>
>> David Clarkson
>> 90 Westfalia about 200 mi short of 300K-now what will I get it or do
>> for it for this milestone birthday? It has been asking for cosmetic
>> surgery for some time now (rust repair and paint)!
>>
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