Re: Mk1 stalling....HELP!!! (Part 2)

["Jason" <jason87vw@nac.net>]

Maybe the prepum in the gas tank ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Mellom <bronson@inwave.com>
To: Scirocco Mailing List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Friday, December 22, 2000 1:49 PM
Subject: Mk1 stalling....HELP!!! (Part 2)


>
>Here's the deal...
>I was bringing the '81 home last night, got her all warmed up and was on
>
>a back road for appx. 15 minutes.  Stopped at a stop light, turned
>green, started accelerating, and she stalls.  Pulled over, she started,
>but barely.  She kinda stumbled to the next stop light, and again, it
>stalled.  Pulled over, got her started back up, and one more stop light
>to go (the busiest intersection of them all).  Again, stalled at about
>3000.  Got pushed to a gas station, and got towed home (second time in 2
>
>weeks).
>Here's the deal (while playing with it in the parking lot waiting for
>the flat-bed):
>It'll start, but at 3000 rpm, it just shuts down.  When it starts back
>up, it idles REALLY low (200-250), but eventually idles up.  Even so, if
>
>I let it idle or hold revs at about 1500, eventually it will just stall
>again.  What's the deal?  I'm tentatively thinking fuel filter, but I
>dunno.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>Nate
>'81
>'84
>
>Okay, here's the deal.  Last night I replaced the fuel filter
>(everything checked out, no grungies in there or anything), replaced the
>air filter (with a K&N, of course....the old filter had a big stain on
>it and smelled like gas....), and replaced the plugs (old ones were very
>carbonated, although not too bubbly).  It still did it.  When it was
>cold, it'd be okay, but when warm it would kill at 3000.  Which brought
>me to my next conclusion.  While playing with my mixture control unit on
>the '84 this summer, I'd let it idle and pull up the plate, and it did
>the same thing, dead.  So, I checked the MCU on the '81.  It was all
>grungy (speckles and what looked like oil all over it), so I wiped it
>clean and put the boot back on, but it still did it.  I took off the
>boot again, and again, it was all oily inside.  The inside of the boot
>wa all oily as well.  I checked the throttle plates and everything
>looked clean.  The boot did have some cracks on it where the tube to the
>intake hooks up, could this be the problem?  And why would there be oil
>coming from the mixture control unit?  Shouldn't that just be air? By
>the way, the K&N was brand new, no extra oil or anything like that.
>Help?
>Nate
>'81
>'84
>Both sick.
>
>
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