Official lazy person's stupid question thread

[bobbyblack]

[E1]

Blue is Temp II.

Black is for the gauge.

I do not think they’re interchangeable. The design is awful, and one reason we went to an aluminum thermostat housing that uses the screw-in Temp II that were used on 1.9s.
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1984 Westfailure/2.1 Digijet/5.43 Ring & Pinion/Peloquin/D-rated BFG KO2s
AI has spoken to further illiteracy, to steal, to cheat, and to replace humans

"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere." — Colin Chapman

[bobbyblack]

[Wildthings]

[bobbyblack]

[bobbyblack]

Well, okay. I'm realizing that my #2 cylinder is not making fire.

So, after swapping in a known good ignition wire for #2, with same results, I went to the injector wire, having gotten my noid test light on arrival home tonight. Confirmed that the wires are all functioning properly.

Means tomorrow will be injector test/swap on right side rail. I did get a spare Gold Mansi injector for such a problem, but sure wish I'd gotten some number more than one, as it would make the work of swapping the entire rail + injectors so much more convenient. Oh well, some day I'll order another 5 injectors for the 'spare bus' and life will start working out a tad bit more easily...

BTW, thanks for all of the help, and patience with my dimness.

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'87 Westy 'Flossie','86 Westy 'R1','86 tintop GL - Subi2.2 'J2','83.5 stock tintop L 'ZoomBus','74 Karmann Ghia, '63 Notch

[bobbyblack]

Fixed stupid part, just had to not be lazy.
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'87 Westy 'Flossie','86 Westy 'R1','86 tintop GL - Subi2.2 'J2','83.5 stock tintop L 'ZoomBus','74 Karmann Ghia, '63 Notch

[E1]

Replaced the injector?

(Full Disclosure: I cheated)
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1984 Westfailure/2.1 Digijet/5.43 Ring & Pinion/Peloquin/D-rated BFG KO2s
AI has spoken to further illiteracy, to steal, to cheat, and to replace humans

"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere." — Colin Chapman

[bobbyblack]

Well, it seemed stupid enough to try. But I was convinced that the stock plastic rail would probably try to kill me if I didn't replace it with a modern solution. The spare injector needed was literally stashed in the last place I would have ever looked... Hence everything out, and also digging in my other stash locations, it took 4 hours to get everything together enough to 'do the job'

Thanks E1, you've been awesome help on this obviously stupid and lazy trek !!!!!!!

Cheers!!

-bobby
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'87 Westy 'Flossie','86 Westy 'R1','86 tintop GL - Subi2.2 'J2','83.5 stock tintop L 'ZoomBus','74 Karmann Ghia, '63 Notch

[E1]

You’re welcome Bud, you’ve certainly helped us before!

Nothing stupid about this issue, they can never be easy!
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1984 Westfailure/2.1 Digijet/5.43 Ring & Pinion/Peloquin/D-rated BFG KO2s
AI has spoken to further illiteracy, to steal, to cheat, and to replace humans

"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere." — Colin Chapman

[uberaudi]

Does anyone know the dimensions of the hollow dowel pins that mate the diesel block to the bellhousing?
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'84 Adventurewagen 1Z TDI, '08 Audi Avant Quattro 6spd BHW TDI

[AndyBees]

[uberaudi]

Thanks Andy! Stay dry!
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'84 Adventurewagen 1Z TDI, '08 Audi Avant Quattro 6spd BHW TDI

[AndyBees]

[uberaudi]

Thank you Andy!
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'84 Adventurewagen 1Z TDI, '08 Audi Avant Quattro 6spd BHW TDI

[bobbyblack]

Question of the day, stupid or lazy, or not;

Can a small amount of water, perhaps having gotten into the filter and freezing, break a hole in the filter that could lead to injector clogging? I think I got some water in my gas somehow in the middle of the winter. (No, it's not cracked evap tanks, or failed roll over valve seals)

Reason for the stupid question is that now that I have found and fixed the no-fire issue in my #2 cylinder, my #3 is now starting to display the same symptoms (no heat at the exhaust port header, until the engine is entirely warmed up). This time I don't have a spare injector on hand though... I guess I need to order some number more of them...

I did go through multiple bottles of various injector cleaners, they sure did not fix the #2 cylinder issue.

-bobby
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'87 Westy 'Flossie','86 Westy 'R1','86 tintop GL - Subi2.2 'J2','83.5 stock tintop L 'ZoomBus','74 Karmann Ghia, '63 Notch

[dhaavers]

Bobby, I have a whole handful of used spare injectors available…how soon you need them?

- Dave
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86 White Wolfsburg Westy Weekender
"The WonderVan"
<EDITED TO PROTECT INNOCENT PIXELS>

[bobbyblack]

Dave,

Thanks for the offer. I too, have multiple sets of used. I could go back to stock, yes. But what I have are the specialized higher flow units offered by a favorite vendor of ours

Again tho, the problem mysteriously goes away when the engine gets warmed up. I don't have any understanding of how an injector could go from not working below 40F on cold start to working just fine by the time I get 6 miles down the road.

-bobby
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'87 Westy 'Flossie','86 Westy 'R1','86 tintop GL - Subi2.2 'J2','83.5 stock tintop L 'ZoomBus','74 Karmann Ghia, '63 Notch

[Wildthings]

[bobbyblack]

Wildthings, thanks!

I think my plan for now is to wait for the one new injector to arrive (I think by this weekend) and replace the #3, along with the plastic rail on driver side.

Further steps will have to include robbing my stash; I've got a new fuel tank, new pump, new filter, fuel tank reseal kit, and sundries. But, maybe that will wait a couple more weeks. I can't see doing the pump and filter if the tank is full of crap, but maybe I am not looking at everything from a high enough level to have my brain process the path properly. Suggestions welcome.

I planed to order a full injector set + a spare for the 'spare' Westy, which gets driven only a fer days a week, and 5 to 6 big trips a year (my kids love borrowing it). Anyway, when I get the new set, I can send this now 6 year old set of Gold injectors in for cleaning, then I can put that old set in the spare bus...

Man, having multiple T3's gets to be big money fast. And I was already flipped out about having/paying for just one!

-bobby
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'87 Westy 'Flossie','86 Westy 'R1','86 tintop GL - Subi2.2 'J2','83.5 stock tintop L 'ZoomBus','74 Karmann Ghia, '63 Notch