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ZsZ Samba Member
Joined: December 11, 2010 Posts: 1642 Location: Budapest Hungary, Europe
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:39 am Post subject: Vanagon Misfire and Stall fault finding |
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This vid popped up on my YT start page, looks like it has good info on fault finding:
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djkeev Samba Moderator
Joined: September 30, 2007 Posts: 32433 Location: Reading Pennsylvania
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wesitarz Samba Member
Joined: August 20, 2012 Posts: 1477 Location: Victoria,B.C.Canada
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagon Misfire and Stall fault finding |
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Ha,ha,ha,.ha. Just watched it in my feed. No longer my engine but interesting. |
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DanHoug Samba Member
Joined: December 05, 2016 Posts: 4715 Location: Bemidji, MN
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:58 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagon Misfire and Stall fault finding |
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great skills and use of the scope and gas meter... but i wonder if instead of adding a ballast resistor to a "new" coil he should have checked the spec of the coil installed. there's so many different specs on these Bosch coils with the identical form factor, so maybe one with a high primary current got installed and was causing the ECU to fault.
it was great to find out that the ECU will 'multi-strike' with high coil amperage. it's another parameter i need to check out and find the baseline for. _________________ -dan
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16CVs Samba Member
Joined: February 22, 2004 Posts: 4020 Location: Redwood City, California
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:55 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagon Misfire and Stall fault finding |
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Great point. There are many different coils and they specifically list a separate coil for a Digifant or newer van. Makes you wonder if the van just has the wrong coil on it? _________________ 1987 Syncro Westfalia Triple knob (bastard)
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ZsZ Samba Member
Joined: December 11, 2010 Posts: 1642 Location: Budapest Hungary, Europe
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 1:41 am Post subject: Re: Vanagon Misfire and Stall fault finding |
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I think the owner threw on a significant amount of money and preferred "no parts required" repair rather than start buying "maybe this will be good now" parts.
Maybe a VW/Vanagon spacialized shop (or an advanced home mechanic ) would investigate which vendor/brand/partnr coils are good to use. _________________ Zoltan
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Robw_z Samba Member
Joined: April 28, 2007 Posts: 983
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 6:43 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagon Misfire and Stall fault finding |
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Whatever the speculation, this guy seems a lot smarter than me and like he knows what he's doing. I'm now curious if my engine is "missing out" on running better due to an issue like this, I can't pass emissions in spite of many new sensors and a good motor.
I wonder if this thread title is not doing the video contained therein justice, I almost didn't click.
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