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Toby, our local Subaru Guru gave me a tip for the idle control valve;
(Toby was discovered by Rev. Brian of Orinda when he did his conversion back
in the
dark ages 3 years ago. Toby had been a VW mechanic for 12 years and knew
vanagons
inside an out. He was working at Diablo Subaru in Walnut Creek CA. He was
much like Hobert,
very giving of his time and extremely knowledgeable when dealing with the
frustrations of the
Wrecking Yard mismatch blues) Rev. Brian was a pioneer in this Vubaru thing.
(except he cheated because he had God helping him:)
Warren have you got him on line?

Idle Control Valve
Pull off the larger hose from the valve (the one going over to valve cover)
and
spray WD 40 into the valve and then replace the hose back on.
Many times (he says ) it is just a matter of a sticking valve inside.
This lubricates it.

BTW my father in law does this same trick with the standard vanagon
starter, he drills a hole diagonally thu the bakelite insulator at the end,
approx. 1/8"
dia., squirts in WD 40 and then plugs hole with self tapping screw.

I had to try it 5 years ago when in desert and starter failed. the local
parts house
did not have bosch rebuild, so rather than buy local off brand i gave it a
"shot"
and it was still working 4 years later when we did the vubaru conversion.

Jay