Re: dead car

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>]

It may be that the pump is terminally ill and just not supplying enough 
pressure to open the injectors properly.  Or possibly the fuel 
accumulator is faulty.

HTH.

Ewan Hopkins...

'85 Storm 2.0
'86 GT 1.8

  

>Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 17:47:30 -0500
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>From: Kurtis Daniels <alder1@nycap.rr.com>
>Subject: dead car
>
>
>ok, i'll start from the beginning...
>
>i was driving down the road and then the car was off...no bucking, and
>stuff. it just shut off nice and quiet. so i steer over to the side and 
try
>and start it again...the engine is turning over fine it's just not
>firing...or it would start for half a second and the shut off again. i
>noticed that i didn't hear the distictive buzz of the fuel pump. so i
>thought that was it. but today i checked the fuse, relay, volts at the
>pump. and all were good. and i even felt the buzzing of the pump...so 
i'm
>sure that's not it...so i guess that it's an electrical problem.
>but i'm not sure what would just catastrophically fail out of the blue. 
the
>distrubutor was rebuilt three weeks ago, and i put a new coil in it not 
to
>long ago too....what else can i look for to get this pig 
running...thanks
>in advance.
> 
>~kurt
>
>'82 scirocco
>'90 G60 corrado
>
>
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'85 Storm 2.0
'86 GT 1.8

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