Re: Got a new '78 today. Can one have _too_ many VWs? (fwd)

[Joel Leclerc <deejay@info.polymtl.ca>]

Check also the catalizer on the exhaust, it is probably jammed!
if the engine temperature goes too high, it can be that. Had
that probleme with my old GTI 86, so I took off the catalizer.


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On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Brett VanSprewenburg wrote:

> 
> > So today I looked it over and pushed it home. Seems in pretty good shape
> > considering. Got the engine running after a while- the exhaust started to glow
> > like a turbo though, so we shut it off.
> > 
> > Here's some symptoms and a guess of what wrong:  engine turns over but sounds
> > all wrong- sounds like it's not compressing on the right part of the stroke
> > (huh?), engine runs but poorly, stumbles but doesn't backfire or anything,
> > like I said before- the exhaust gets cherry red after just a few minuets of
> > poor running.
> > 
> > Oi.
> > TBerk
> 
> I've seen this happen when the spark plug wires were in the wrong order on
> the distributor.  Check that out first, it's somewhat easy to screw up.
> 
> ==Brett
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