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

[Night Shadow <soltwede@ucsub.colorado.edu>]

I just had something VERY similar happen to my 80, turned out to be that
my Oxy computer was full of water.....check your connections!

Eric


On Mon, 31 May 1999, Gene Fulmer wrote:

> 
>  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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