Monday, February 6, 2012

What's left?

We still have to run the new throttle cable, connect the shift rod (I hope the new parts arrive soon), and connect and fill the cooling system.
The cooling system diagrams shown on Bostig's documentation do not cover the case of a vanagon with the optional rear heater, which ours has.  However, the automatic transmission models have a similar setup, with the transmission oil cooler taking the place of the heater that our van has, so I don't foresee a problem.  I'm also having a problem obtaining the Ford proprietary coupler that connects the brake booster vacuum line to the intake manifold.  The local folks aren't sure what it's called, and I may have the same problem with the Ford dealer up north.  If I need to order this (likely), I may plug the intake manifold and run through the start-and-monitor cycle that is done before taking it on the road.

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