RE: Cooling fan question

[Andrew Wong <mkii_84@yahoo.com>]

I have the Bently its just I have tough time with it
since I have no experiance with cars until I got to
use the Scirocco.  I am more computer oritented also. 
I just wish my school at least offered a course on
mechanics or stuff using electronics
--- Patrick Bureau <pbureau@home.com> wrote:
> 1) if you stand on the driver side of the car, and
> you look at your
> TB it will be between the TB and the Firewall
> it is not easily accessed, but you will notice a
> rubber plug in
> your rain tray that has wires passing through it
> remove rain tray, get small flat screwdriver, and
> pop that rubber
> plug out, and slip the screwdriver through the hold
> of the rain
> tray into the TB idle screw neck (the screw itself
> is not visible).
> 
> 2) The O2 sensor is actually connected to your
> downpipe or intake
> manifold, but you should see a green wire with a
> black on one end
> and brown connector to it that leads to your
> computer, unplug that
> connection. you will know right away if it is a
> problem or affects
> the car right away the idle will go down or not.
> (grin, man you
> need a Bentley bad!)
> 
> Patrick
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Wong [mailto:mkii_84@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 9:08 PM
> > To: Patrick Bureau; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > Subject: RE: Cooling fan question
> >
> >
> > Is the idle screw the one facing the passenger
> side or
> > the one going into the dash.  A friend of mine
> said it
> > was the one facing the passenger side and another
> said
> > it was behind it so I am confused.  Do I need to
> go
> > under the car for the O2 Sensor.
> > --- Patrick Bureau <pbureau@home.com> wrote:
> > > Your idle is 3-4K.... YIKES way too high, should
> be
> > > around
> > > 900-1000rpm.
> > >
> > > Check on the TB against the firewall there is an
> > > adjustment screw,
> > > if that does not change anything, unplug your O2
> > > sensor to see if
> > > it will drop, (if it does, you will need to
> change
> > > it)
> > >
> > > as for dirt on your intake manifold, I suggest,
> > > getting some engine
> > > cleaner, and clean/rinse the engine out, if the
> dirt
> > > needs it,
> > > scrubs it out with a toothbrush and get rid of
> the
> > > "smoke" and that
> > > way you can concentrate on more important matter
> > > (i.e. way off the
> > > chart idling car.)
> > >
> > > Patrick
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> >
> >
> > =====
> > -Andrew
> > 1984 Black Scirocco(stock)
> > aw614.topcities.com/1984.htm
> >
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=====
-Andrew 
1984 Black Scirocco(stock)
aw614.topcities.com/1984.htm

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