Re: Engine Probs, But Much Rejoicing...

["Ian Overholt" <ioverholt@hotmail.com>]

It sounds like you've got ground troubles.  Is your ground connection at the 
coil clean?  When you say the instruments whack out, is it just the tach?  
If it's just the tach, then your problem is with the coil.  If it's other 
instruments too, then your dashboard ground is having trouble.  As for the 
high idle, grounds could be causing that, but it's also likely the idle 
stabilizer valve.  Take it off and spray it with carb cleaner.

I doubt the knock sensor has anything to do with your problems.  The knock 
sensor would just retard your timing and you would notice it has a simple 
lack of power.  I think.

Ian Overholt
'88 16v
'78 Champagne Edition


>From: Ben Patterson <bpatterson@stanford.edu>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Engine Probs, But Much Rejoicing...
>Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:26:20 -0700
>
>	Here's the latest issue I've gotta resolve though. I swapped
>out the distributor/hall sender in the hopes that it would solve the
>problem I've had for the last couple of months. When I start the car
>up, 75% of the time it will idle at 2K rpm, and be ridiculously
>rough. Other times, the tach will jump to 6 or 7K and the car will
>feel fine, no missing, etc. but the gauges are all jacked. When I
>pulled the old distributor there was oil in the cap, so I would have
>had to change it anyway, but it's pissing me off that this problem is
>still going on. The next thing on my list to change out is the knock
>sensor, which I'll do tonight. Anyone got any ideas? The car runs
>great once it is started with the gauges reading correctly (usually
>takes a few tries) and it has no issues beyond this. (Well, there is
>that downpipe with the cracked flex joint which is fuming me out of
>the car - gotta drive the bastard with the windows down till I get
>that done this weekend. heh heh...)
>	Anyone got any ideas?
>
>			And there was much rejoicing...

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