[Vwdiesel] Belated Report ... Was: Thank you Hagar... And: First time into the guts of an injection pump

[William A. Thompson]

Now and again I have the time to read and lurk. Been awhile since I have had time to post. Most of the time one of the learned personalities in the group has an answer and perspective to any question posed ... so I find I usually do not need to post if I wait for all to have their say.

Late last year I had a pump part break ... http://tinyurl.com/6ctrg ... and Hagar was kind enough to send me a replacement to install in my pump. Although what he sent was slightly thinner ... .082" vs. .098" ... all it required was some adjustment of the max fuel and the idle speed.

After installing the shim ... with no other compensating adjustments ... the car started up and ran at a higher idle. Brought the idle down then noticed the governor hunting. Brought down the fueling ... adjusted fueling and idling against each other then had my son drive it to work while tweaking fueling and idle daily based on his drivability reports. Before we had gotten it to the sweet spots he slid on some ice ... hit a curb at an angle ... and bent the right side control arm to where the tire was up against the back of the wheel well so tightly it effectively kept the car from moving at all.  Had to lift the front to tow it home.

Took some time to swap out control arm from one of our parts cars ... what with weather and all ... but now it is back on the road.

Slightly and almost imperceptibly hunts at certain RPMs but evidently not enough for my son to consider it worth bothering with.

Again Hagar ... heaps of thanks ya' old codger ... or geezer ... which ever you prefer to be known by.

    ...Bill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William A. Thompson" <twogreek-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.culture.cars.volkswagen.diesel
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: Thank you Hagar... Was: First time into the guts ofan(fwd)


> Can't beat it for sure ... although I mostly lurk
> here ... every day ...
> .. usually because I know the folks here ...
> people like you ... among
> others Val ... will and do come up with answers
> and help ... often
> worded better than I can on first blush.
>     ...Bill
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Val Christian"
> <val-nfPOiQEOtsNk67MPQ24iog-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg at public.gmane.org>
> Newsgroups: gmane.culture.cars.volkswagen.diesel
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:00 PM
> Subject: Thank you Hagar... Was: First time into
> the guts of an(fwd)
> 
> 
> > Isn't it great when a group works together?
> It's almost like
> > Christmas time.  Eggnog (or beer) to the good
> and generous folks
> > on this list!
> >
> > Val
> >
> >
> > Forwarded message:
> > > Hagar the Horrible comes thru ... two days ago
> I
> > > got the distributor plunger shim you mailed to
> me.
> > > It is installed ... car started up as soon as
> the
> > > pump
> > > filled itself from the tank. More further
> down.