John; Last night my wife complained our 85 was running poorly. I went outside to move it closer to the garage and it would not start. Found an intermittent connection at the coolant Temp sensor. I started T/Sing expecting the sensor itself had failed(classic symptoms). I started by removing the connector from the ECU and reading the resistance across pins two and seven (digijet only). Next I compared that figure to the graph in the Bentley. The problem was obvious then. Every time I have the engine lid open I manually open and close the throttle valve and listen for the clicking of the idle position switch. Drive Safely & Good Luck Ken Lewis<Kernersville,NC>86 VW crewcab;60 T-5 Coupe On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:10:26 -0400 "John P. Flaherty" <jflaherty@PIVOT.NET> writes: >Hi Volks: > >My '84 developed a new problem this weekend. When I start it in the >morning, >or after work when it's sat all day, it feels like I'm only running on >3 >cylinders. This continues for 1 to 5 miles, after which it runs great. >The >problem does not occur when the bus has only been sitting for a couple >of >hours, so it doesn't seem temperature related. > >Any ideas? > >John Flaherty >Standish, ME >'84 GL >'84 Rabbit ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. |
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