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jayinduluth Samba Member
Joined: August 16, 2012 Posts: 122 Location: Southern California via Duluth, MN
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 11:11 am Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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I was thinking I should just open up my old one and adjust it and throw back in there and send the one I bought back to BD. I would't open the new one up.
I'm hesitant to get in too deep with the throttle adjustment because I'm planning on camping this weekend in it and its drive-able now (well unless I encounter any sort of incline from a complete stop...), just not optimal. _________________ 85 Westy with 91 2.1L |
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tjet Samba Member
Joined: June 10, 2014 Posts: 3533 Location: CA & NM
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 11:59 am Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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Fyi, mine is acting up again. I previously tried another AFM & an ECU - no help.
It seems to start bucking after it's warmed up. I'm going to unplug the o2 sensor & give it a try... |
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Howesight Samba Member
Joined: July 02, 2008 Posts: 3274 Location: Vancouver, B.C.
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 12:31 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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Hi Jay:
I don't think your AFM is the problem, but it is possible. I am chiming in because you live in Duluth, which is second only to Toronto, Ontario in the amount of salt they apply to the roads. My Syncro has barely had any salt exposure, but even it has had corrosion issues on parts of the wiring. My bet is that you have corrosion-affected wiring in more than one part of your fuel injection system.
It does not matter that your engine is actually 2.1 litre displacement. You fuel injection system will be 100% referable to the Digijet Pro-Training Manual and the Bentley manual for trouble-shooting, testing, and repair.
The adjustment of the CO via the screw on the AFM will not cause the symptoms that you describe. That screw mainly affects the idle CO readings and the CO readings at very low throttle settings. If your oxygen sensor, wiring and Lambda system in the ECU are operating properly, then the Lambda system will correct any mis-adjustment of the CO screw once the engine is warmed up.
One poster above suggested that you try a known-good ECU. I think that is good advice. However, before buying a new or "rebuilt" (in fact, re-soldered) ECU, it is useful to perform all of the electrical tests in the Digijet pro-training manual. You can find it here:
http://www.vanagonauts.com/files/Digijet_FI.pdf
There are a number of ground wires in the engine bay that influence the EFI system, some directly, some indirectly. Wherever a ground tests less than perfect, carefully clean the ground connection area and re-check. If still less than perfect, strip back some of the insulation on the ground wire near the terminal end to check for corrosion of the copper conductor. It should be shiny copper coloured and if it is, instead, brown, then you need to address it. I have recently had great success using CLR on mildly-corroded switches, (submersing and soaking for an hour or more) so that may be an option, but the speediest way is to cut back the corroded part and crimp a new terminal in place, using a proper terminal and a proper crimper. Here's one source:
https://www.germansupply.com/home/customer/product.php?productid=17094
You should also check all the usual sources of vacuum leaks and eliminate/correct them. The common places are:
1. Rubber boot connecting AFM to Throttle body: It cracks at the bellows and/or is loosely attached;
2. Brake Booster hose: loose or leaking;
3. Hose pieces connecting the intake plenum to the intake runners: They rot from oil inside the manifold;
4. Injector O-rings dried out;
5. Intake flange-to-head gasket;
6. hose from breather tower to intake plenum: loose or rotten;
6. Breather tower diaphragm broken: Test by removing oil filler cap when engine is idling. If idle speed is affected, the diaphragm is toast.
7. Fuel evaporative hose/system. Plug off at the manifold to test. If no change in idle speed, evaporative system is not causing a vacuum leak (but may still be defective).
8. Hoses between idle-up solenoid(s) and intake plenum: loose, eroded or disconnected. _________________ '86 Syncro Westy SVX |
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tjet Samba Member
Joined: June 10, 2014 Posts: 3533 Location: CA & NM
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 1:00 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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Good info howesight. I just unplugged my o2 sensor & I'm heading out now. Lets see how that works. |
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jayinduluth Samba Member
Joined: August 16, 2012 Posts: 122 Location: Southern California via Duluth, MN
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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good grief, I completely forgot that I did this on Sunday and my rpm did not change when I pinched the hose. However, if I'm recalling correctly (which we all know how well that is working..) the rpm didn't change after it warmed up either, but I'll test again when I get home.
Thanks Howesight! _________________ 85 Westy with 91 2.1L |
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jayinduluth Samba Member
Joined: August 16, 2012 Posts: 122 Location: Southern California via Duluth, MN
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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I assume the pinching of the hose an auxiliary air regulator is only for the 1.9? I'm home now and I'm not seeing that regulator, that hose goes to a T underneath the the air filter, so it must be part of the 2.1.
_________________ 85 Westy with 91 2.1L |
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Wildthings Samba Member
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 3:09 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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jayinduluth wrote: |
I assume the pinching of the hose an auxiliary air regulator is only for the 1.9? I'm home now and I'm not seeing that regulator, that hose goes to a T underneath the the air filter, so it must be part of the 2.1.
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Something looks odd with the hoses in the picture to me. Don't have a Digijet available to compare them with though. |
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hdenter Samba Member
Joined: October 14, 2008 Posts: 2753 Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 3:55 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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There should be two hoses coming off the "S" boot. One to the breather tower and that braided hose to your aux air valve. On the other side of the aux air valve is a hose going to the plenum. The aux air valve is buried down under the right side intake runners for #s 1 and 2. You should be running all 1.9 FI and ignition parts.
Hans _________________ '79 triple white convertible bug
'84 sunroof vanagon
'85 weekender |
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Wildthings Samba Member
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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What is the hose set up that kind of parallel the coolant cross over pipe. I don't recognized it.
The hose set up is not in this picture of a 1.9L engine
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bluebus86 Banned
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t3 kopf Samba Member
Joined: October 22, 2012 Posts: 1115 Location: over by 'der
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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I had that same issue in the past when I had my 1.9l. A new AFM made my engine run poorly. 2 things fixed the problem. I completely rebuilt my injection harness and I added a restrictor to the oil breather line. The digijet system is pretty trouble free but the vacuum system has to be rock solid for everything to work correctly. The TPS switches are super easy to adjust correctly but don't usually contribute to this issue. _________________ '90 Carat w/ '95 phase 1 EJ22 OBD2 conversion |
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tjet Samba Member
Joined: June 10, 2014 Posts: 3533 Location: CA & NM
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 6:21 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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Just a quick update on mine: with o2 sensor unplugged, I felt an overall drop in power once it warmed up, but it still had an intermittent stumble. This time, I happened to notice when it stumbled - right after I turned on the headlights & wipers. So maybe the alternator harness is bad & when there's an electrical demand, it's robbing the ECU power.
Here's a post for a similar running issue, which was caused by a bad alternator harness...
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=618186&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 |
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hdenter Samba Member
Joined: October 14, 2008 Posts: 2753 Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 6:21 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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You're right Wildthings, I thought that picture looked fishy. I couldn't tell for sure just looking on my phone. I can't see the second port on the S boot.
Hans _________________ '79 triple white convertible bug
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jayinduluth Samba Member
Joined: August 16, 2012 Posts: 122 Location: Southern California via Duluth, MN
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:40 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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According to the Bentley, that is a 1.9 air intake hose or boot.
I have possibly bigger problems. I took apart the AFM/filter housing so I could see the auxiliary air regulator better, in doing so I discovered that one of the hoses to the bottom of the vacuum shut-off valve, charcoal cannister was not connected. I connected it but noticed that the connector to the hose has a split in it. I must have knocked it off installing the AFM. So I put that back, assembled the AFM/filter back and like an idiot, thought I would go for a drive, because I guess I'm an eternal optimist. The drive around my neighborhood went fine, well, fine as in same symptoms, ok at the start, lacking any power from stop, but flooring it I would at least move and once it hit about 15mph, off to the races. I was able to floor it at least make it go up a hill, so I decided to take it out on city streets, got back to my hill (because Duluth is the san fran on the midwest...) to go my house, turned up said hill, got about two van lengths from intersection and it died. Tried to restart and it like its not getting gas. Some guy stopped. had me start it while he smelled the exhaust and said it was the fuel filter (which is new GW round one, between fuel pump and engine, installed last summer). I thought well, its probably not starting because I'm on an incline, but got towed up to my driveway, a relatively flat space and no start there either. Now I'm relatively disgusted and going to bed. _________________ 85 Westy with 91 2.1L |
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Howesight Samba Member
Joined: July 02, 2008 Posts: 3274 Location: Vancouver, B.C.
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 8:08 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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jayinduluth wrote: |
good grief, I completely forgot that I did this on Sunday and my rpm did not change when I pinched the hose. However, if I'm recalling correctly (which we all know how well that is working..) the rpm didn't change after it warmed up either, but I'll test again when I get home.
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Yes, Jay, I forgot about the Auxiliary Air Regulator. It basically allows a small amount of air to by-pass the throttle for the warm-up period only. It goes back to the old CIS system used on the 1975 Rabbit(!) Like every other hose in the intake tract, the AAR hoses can develop leaks, so do check to eliminate that as a vacuum leak source. Looking at the pics, I can't even tell if it is connected to anything. When testing, both points where the AAR hoses attach need to be plugged as both will admit unmetered air into the engine.
Here's a pic by Gruppe B that shows the wiring terminal corrosion I was speaking about earlier :
Here's the link to Gruppe B's post on the terminal corrosion topic:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5...p;start=40 _________________ '86 Syncro Westy SVX |
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Tom Powell Samba Member
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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jayinduluth wrote: |
... he smelled the exhaust and said it was the fuel filter ... |
Aloha
tp |
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jayinduluth Samba Member
Joined: August 16, 2012 Posts: 122 Location: Southern California via Duluth, MN
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 7:00 am Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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Yeah I know, the smelling the exhaust and equating it to the fuel filter is a new one to me too. I do seem to have random people coming up to me and telling me what's wrong with my van.
I was in a bar a couple weeks ago telling a buddy of mine my van woes about going up hills, etc, random guy sitting next to us says its my catalytic converter and to disconnect it and that he's seen it lots of times. _________________ 85 Westy with 91 2.1L |
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Tom Powell Samba Member
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 10:01 am Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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jayinduluth wrote: |
Yeah I know, the smelling the exhaust and equating it to the fuel filter is a new one to me too. I do seem to have random people coming up to me and telling me what's wrong with my van.
I was in a bar a couple weeks ago telling a buddy of mine my van woes about going up hills, etc, random guy sitting next to us says its my catalytic converter and to disconnect it and that he's seen it lots of times. |
The catalytic converters do get clogged with a resulting loss of power.
Aloha
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Wildthings Samba Member
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 11:06 am Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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Tom Powell wrote: |
jayinduluth wrote: |
Yeah I know, the smelling the exhaust and equating it to the fuel filter is a new one to me too. I do seem to have random people coming up to me and telling me what's wrong with my van.
I was in a bar a couple weeks ago telling a buddy of mine my van woes about going up hills, etc, random guy sitting next to us says its my catalytic converter and to disconnect it and that he's seen it lots of times. |
The catalytic converters do get clogged with a resulting loss of power.
Aloha
tp |
Agreed, this will make the exhaust sound odd and there will be no detectable pulses as each exhaust valve opens. In the days of leaded fuel this was a real problem as the lead would clog the converters very quickly, thus one of the reasons the swap was made to unleaded fuel. |
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Howesight Samba Member
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 11:25 am Post subject: Re: Rebuilt AFM installed, problem got slightly better then worse. |
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Heard at a bar in Saginaw:
"Y'know them catalytic converters swim upstream to spawn every Spring, right?" _________________ '86 Syncro Westy SVX |
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