Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:38:56 -0500
Reply-To: "Cook, Thomas" <tcook@ROVERS.COM>
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From: "Cook, Thomas" <tcook@ROVERS.COM>
Subject: Diesel Warm No Start?
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Hi-
I recently installed a 1.9 NA diesel engine in my '82 westy and while I am
quite happy with the new engine generally I am at the end of my rope
regarding a warm no start problem.
Every time I try to start the van right after shutting it down, like after
getting gas, or stalling, it will not start. It turns over fine but won't
fire. Each time that I have had it towed (four times to the shop and one or
two home) after recharging the battery (I run it down trying to start the
van and have already replaced it once with a new 1000 CCA battery) it
starts right up. Once it even started right up by jumping when the AAA
truck arrived. Other times I have tried to jump it before calling the AAA
and could not get it started. I am VERY near to the end of the road with
this vehicle as it has left me stranded every time I have shut it down over
the last month. I have resorted to simply not shutting it down unless I am
at home or work... I just lock it up and leave it running while I take care
of short errands.
Cold starts were ok until last week when it would not start after sitting
over an hour (maybe this was not a cold start after all). It was still
starting fine each morning at home and each afternoon at work until the
accelerator cable apparently became frayed and then frozen. I was trying to
start it to drive to the shop to trouble shoot the warm no start when the
gas pedal was stuck mid-way down.
The accelerator replacement is straight forward but the no start problem has
stumped me and my mechanics; including the 80 year old original owner of the
shop who has worked on VW's since the beginning.
Any ideas? The remaining item the shop tentatively suspects is the fuel
pump but apparently that is not an inexpensive to replace and unless they
can convince me it will solve the problem I am a little hesitant to drop
another $500+ on a possible fix.
Thanks-
TJC
PS- is there some reason the list archives are no longer available from the
Archives page? They are still accessible from the search page and you can
get to them via a backdoor on the search results page but the archive page
has stopped with the end of last year?
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