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Date:         Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:37:20 -0700
Reply-To:     gholst@RAMBUS.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Grant Holst <gholst@RAMBUS.COM>
Organization: Rambus inc.
Subject:      Eurospec problem
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I need the wisdom of the List. I have a Eurospec kit in my '85 GL. On hot days the engine will not start back up after sitting for a few minutes. It needs to cool down almost completely before it will start. It tries to start but sounds like it is running on 1 or 2 cyls. I use to have a hot start problem before where the engine would just spin and I had no ignition at all. It turned out to be a bad power supply relay,( I thought) the one that supplies 12v to the ecu. The relay would heat up and not work. I moved the box that housed the relay to a cooler spot and that seemed to work for awhile. When the engine wouldn't start or ran on 1 or 2 cyls. I would swap out the warm relay for a cool relay and the engine would run fine. Since the relay was still getting too warm it seemed, I moved the relay box and ecu under the rear seat. I figured this had to fix the problem since the relay was no longer in a hot spot. Well, it didn't fix the problem. So now I think the problem is in the wire that runs from the terminal in the back of the van(in the black box that has the picture of vacuum lines on the cover) to the dash/fuse block and back to the relay. This wire is about 18ga. and about 20 feet long. I think this wire has too much voltage drop for the new ecu which was designed for a jetta engine (shorter wires, since everything is up front). Does anyone know why this wire needs to run to the fuse block? Bentley doesn't show a fuse in this wire.

Any thoughts on this or what else might be causing the problem? I never had a problem like this with the old 1.9l.

Grant Holst Sunnyvale, CA.


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