Re: Here's a weird one.. car troubles.

["Brian Honnold" <bhonnold@pac-cap.com>]

Sounds like a clogged fuel filter or clogged catalytic converter.

Brian Honnold
'78 Rocco Ragtop
'99 Passat GLX
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Fulmer <genefulm@turbonet.com>
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Monday, May 31, 1999 1:25 PM
Subject: Here's a weird one.. car troubles.


>
> I was wondering if any of you have ever experienced these symtoms..
>
> Last weekend I drove my 1980 scirocco to Seattle. (a 300 mile drive)
>Half way there I began to experience a lack of power while driving up a
>long hill. I had a lot of crap in the car, so it was a fair sized load
>for the engine. (2 liter techtonics) The power loss at first was keeping
>me from doing 70mph. It later got to the point where I could hardly go
>20mph up a hill. (I did eventualy make it to where I was going) The
>whole drive home I was trying to figure out what could possibly be
>wrong. I let the car sit over the weekend and then took it to a
>mechanic. While driving it down to his shop, the power came back, and
>everything seemed to be working fine again. After a few hours the only
>thing he found wrong was a cracked injector o-ring, and the car was
>running great. (well almost great, he really screwed up the timing..
>rookies..)
>
> It was time to leave Seattle, and I knew that the o-ring could not have
>caused the severity of my power loss. Sure enough, about 100 miles short
>of home, the car started doing it again. This time I could at least
>maintain 50mph on the flat ground. (I'm pissed now because I spent $57
>for a new o-ring basicaly) :)
>
> This has not been the first time this has happened. Three other times I
>have had a power fall-off, but it has not been that bad. Every time I
>get back in the car after it has been sitting, the problem goes away.
>Around town driving never gets like this... only when I have been
>driving the car for more than 2 hours on a long trip.
>
> The car has an 1985 audi 4000 knock sensing ignition (complete). I've
>put in new plugs, wires, rotor, cap.
>
> Right now, I can only guess that the fuel pump might be causing it. The
>car has at least 240,000 on it. I felt the fuel pump relay and it was
>pretty hot. I have had the pump checked out twice now, and both times
>the fuel pressure and rate are good.
>
> Does this sound familiar to anyone?
>
> Gene Fulmer.
>
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