Re: Help!--Stalling MK1

[kevin f <aventari@detonate.net>]

greetings fellow San Diegan :) where exactly are you located??


Now on to the problem.. It sounds fuel related to me, the fuel pump or the fuel pump relay can overheat and shut down. 
I would make a jumper switch (piece of wire with 2 spades on the end, and a switch in the middle, check the bently :) ) , replace your fuel pump relay with it and see if the problem still happens.
If it still dies, see if you can still hear the fuel pump running after it dies (with the switch on of course)
That would be my first step.
I have a jumper swtich i carry around in my car if you're close to Poway

GL!

--- Theron Ross <ross@sanoh.com.mx>
> wrote:
>This is my first post to the list, but I've been happily lurking for a long
>time. I enjoy reading everyone's posts during my lunch hour. 
>
>I know some of you because I've bought used stuff from you, and I now know
>Shawn because he's a fellow San Diegan and he was cool enough to deliver a
>few of his shirts to my house. He talked me into turning my current 2-liter
>rebuild (UQ block--anyone have info on this motor?) into a screamer.
>
>Now I'm posting this because I need some help.
>
>Car: '81 S
>Motor: JH
>Ignition: stock
>
>Yesterday evening I was coming home from work and the gas gauge was in the
>red zone. No problem, I had run it that low before, so I knew I could make
>it to a gas station closer to home...
>
>As I took the offramp off of the freeway, my car suddenly died.
>I started it up as I was coasting, it ran for a few seconds, and then it
>died again.
>Figured that I was out of gas, so I pulled into a parking lot and called the
>wife to bring gas.
>
>Dumped in the gallon of gas and started to head home. The whole way home it
>would run fine and then die. Start it up again...run a little ways...dies
>again.
>
>Right before it would die, it would give a very slight little blip (surge)
>and then just completely die. No sputtering, no nothing, just completely cut
>power and die.
>
>Please note that it has had a little trouble with hot starts and starting in
>hot weather ever since I installed a worked intake manifold and Neuspeed TB
>earlier this year. I replaced the cold-start valve gasket to improve this
>problem, but no change. But it's no big deal because it runs fine after a
>couple of minutes.
>
>So I'm looking to the list for some advice to get me rolling.
>
>I realize that my Bently will get me through it, but I hate
>trouble-shooting. I love taking a wrench to my car, but I hate reading
>through my Bently trying to figure out what the problem is. I'd almost
>rather spend money swapping out old parts for new than be forced to
>trouble-shoot this problem. Yes, I hate trouble-shooting that much.
>
>Actually, this is one of those extremely rare times that I have had a
>problem with a VW. My Scirocco is a real trooper! She gets me through
>everything--Even daily driving in Tijuana!--without a whimper.
>
>So what are my best bets for checking/swapping out first?
>
>Please help...otherwise I'll be forced to continue driving my Integra!
>(Ooops)
>
>Thanks,
>Theron
>
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