Date:         Thu, 25 Nov 1999 10:34:14 -0500
Reply-To:     "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Subject:      Re: CIS Puzzler (Jetta content only)
Comments: To: "KENWILFY@AOL.COM" <KENWILFY@AOL.COM>
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Sounds a lot like a classic case of having the timing belt off by one tooth.
Pull off the belt cover and verify the alignment marks on the crank,
intermediate and camshaft. When they all line up, the dist rotor should be
pointing at the #1 cyl.

TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com
http://volksweb.relitech.com
85 Vanagon Crew Cab
82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
65 Notchback

> -----Original Message-----
> From: KENWILFY@AOL.COM [SMTP:KENWILFY@AOL.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 10:44 PM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      CIS Puzzler (Jetta content only)
>
>
> When I time everything up (using a timing light and tachometer) according
> to
> the marks on the flywheel (which I double checked) I have two problems.
> 1. The power is very low.  The motor kinda feels like it is bogged down
> and
> then finally starts to get some power once you get rolling.
> 2. When the shifter is in neutral or park it idles fine, but when I put it
> in
> "drive" or "reverse" the motor idles down drastically (it goes from idling
> around 1000 rpms to 600 rpms when you put it in gear) and acts like it is
> going to die (and it sometimes does).  The transmission seems to shift
> smoothly between gears and is full of fluid.
>
> If I turn the distributor counterclockwise a bit the idle goes up and it
> seems like I have more power, etc (however the timing marks don't line up
> at
> all).
> So I am wondering if anyone out there has had similar problems?  Here are
> the
> things I have replaced/checked so far.
>
> 1. Distributor Cap
> 2. Rotor
> 3. Spark Plug Wires
> 4. Spark Plugs
> 5. Fuel Filter
> 6. No holes in intake boots or vacuum hoses.
>
>
>