Date:         Fri, 13 Jan 1995 13:45:45 -0600 (CST)
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From:         Dean Paul Karpowicz <chinaski@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Subject:      Re: Idle and Timing

>Lately it appears that my van is running too rich.  It idles really rough, and I

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>Mike Plickys
>1987 Syncro  

one quick thing to check is your fuel pressure.  I had the regulator go bad
on me and the fuel pressure went way up, causing the engine to run rich (the
computer has no idea what the fuel pressure currently is, it only meters by
length of injection pulses)

give it a try.

Dean
'84 wolfsburg

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