Re: Towed from same spot on road twice in one week(long)

["Brian Wagner" <scirocco_88_16v@hotmail.com>]

Before you order a new one, there is a guy on vwvortex how will rebuild 
yours for $65 that includes shipping. An extra $if it needs a sender.

heres the email addy - portal@emptymail.com



Brian

87 16v
86 8v (parts car)
85 Wolfsburg (new parts car)



>From: "Dave Ewing" <rabbit16v@prodigy.net>
>To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: Towed from same spot on road twice in one week(long)
>Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:36:22 -0800
>
>No offense but I would have suspected spark right away since you discribe 
>it
>as stuttering.  Fuel problems rarely stutter, just die.  Anyway, atleast 
>you
>will have it solved for little more than the actual initial problem, a new
>distributor!!  Hang in there dude I know how it is!!!  ANYONE who has a 
>nice
>VW (old or newer--pre 90) has gone through the rain at some time or another
>but it looks like the sun is starting to come out for you and dry things
>up!!!  Cool that you can vent somewhere eh!?
>
>Dave
>
> > I think this makes everything ......I have officially replaced 
>everything
>on
> > the car.....After dumping more money at this car than I could have ever
> > possibly thought, something else goes wrong.  My car has been running 
>like
> > garbage for a couple of weeks, so I chalked it up to the plug wires
>getting a
> > little old.  They're due for replacement in the spring.  So, I'm driving
>the
> > other night, get on a 4 lane highway and give it some juice.  The next
>thing
> > I know, the thing is sputtering at 4,000 RPM.  In second gear, it just
>gets
> > to 4,000 and sputters a little more harshly and at 5000 the car just 
>dies.
> > There is NOWHERE to pull off, so I let it drift almost a 1/2 mile to a
>place
> > where I can pull over.  The whole time I'm drifting, I'm cranking the 
>car
>to
> > no avail.  It just seems like I'm getting no fuel whatsoever.  So, I 
>have
>it
> > towed to my mechanic, he calls me and tells me the car is done, he
>replaced
> > the fuel pump relay and the car is working just fine.  He leaves the key
>in
> > it, and at 10 pm I go to get the car.  Mind you, his shop is in the 
>middle
>of
> > nowhere.  I get in, and the car starts better and runs better than it 
>has
>in
> > a while.  Great, I think.  So, on the way home I stop to get gas, and I
> > notice when I'm pulling out of the station that it's sputtering again.
>So, I
> > get up to the light where it died before, and I test it out.  4000 RPM 
>and
>it
> > stutters rather harshly, bucks twice and dies.  Mind you, the tach is
>reading
> > zero, but the engine is still running, but I have no control over engine
> > speed or anything.  I have to let it drift 1/2 mile again, and when I
>called
> > AAA, they didn't even have to change the description of where I was.  My
> > mechanic tells me to bring the fuel pump off of my Rabbit GTI out, 
>because
>I
> > put a brand new one on before it died a year and a 1/2 ago.  So I lay 
>out
> > underneath a Rabbit in the rain and take the pump off, only to discover
>after
> > we put it on the 'rocco that after priming, it still isn't working.  
>Works
> > when you jump it at the fuse panel, but that's about it.  He then checks
>and
> > notices that I'm not getting any spark whatsoever.  Pulls the cap off 
>the
> > dist. to notice that it's drowning in oil.  OOOPS.  That explains the 
>poor
> > running.  So, we think the hall sender is fried, because I didn't know 
>in
>a
> > 16v that if you have no spark, the fuel pump won't run so you won't 
>flood
>the
> > cylinders.  Looks like I'll be ordering a new dist. in the morning.  I'm
> > getting really sick of drivin g my mothers '97 Neon.....ill handling, no
> > steering, non sealing window, automatic piece of shit........
> >
> >
> > 'Patrick
> > '87 Scirocco 16v
> > '87 Cabriolet
> > '84 Rabbit GTI
> >
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