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Date:         Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:19:07 EDT
Reply-To:     BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Ben T <BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Diesel engine help needed (little or NVC)
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Can the diesel gurus on this list help this guy out. Pmail me if you have any suggestions and I will forward it. Sorry for the lack of Vanagon content. I thought hat since it's essentially the same engine as some Vanagons someone may be ale to help this guy. Besides he is currently shopping for a diesel van.


Thanks,
BenT


<< My recently acquired '81 Jetta got a starter today [it has been parked for 17 years and hasn't been started in 4] along with a new under-hood fuel filter and an earl change...both the fuel filter and the earl filter were filled with diesel and motor earl, respectively before remounting, to expedite that fluid on its way.


Well, turning the key after the glow-plug light went out [JOY!] rewarded me with the familiar and sadly missed sound of the Jetta's diesel 1.6 turning over.  And over.  And over and over.  Not firing up.  Well, that part wasn't at all familiar.  [last time dad started it, in 1997, it started immediately like it always had]  Checked the manual, one fuse listed as a possible culprit [electric fuel pump] in space # 16 "directly above the fuse box" but all I found was fuses 1 thru 15, and several relays above the fuse box.  One relay WAAAAAAAAAAAY up did have a fuse on the end of it, a 25A fuse, and I assumed this to be #16.  It was intact and OK.


Now, there was a relay about in the middle of the fuse box that looked 'rusty' near its pins.  Wiggling it out of its socket [boy, that took some four letter words], revealed an undetermined relay that is either burned up or something...it rattles and smells burnt and the casing seems like it's ready to pop off.  The pins are rusted.  Checking its neighboring relays, they came out a bit easier and the pins were shiny.


Any idea what this cat is?  I have both Haynes and Bentley manuals for A1 & A2 VWs, but only for gas engines.  I searched the 'Net for the numbers on top of the relay, but if Google.com doesn't give you a return on your search, then there's nothing out there to find regarding it.


The #s on top of this puppy are:
321 955 531 A
and of course it says SIEMENS and SME on it, and below that are:
5 WK 1636 >>
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