OT: passat vr6 questions

[redbug64@hotmail.com (Jason Arms)]

Oooook, so is the black box for the power windows or for the tranny?  i have 
had both answers :)
The car WILL shift into gears while sitting and not running, but i did not 
take notice weather it was showing the correct gears in the gage cluster.
To test for spark, i pulled out the front leftmost sparkplug wire as you 
look at the engine because thats the only one i could get a good grip on 
without the fear of breaking it (i didnt know about the special tool) then i 
put a sparkplug on the wire that i had brought with me, had a friend crank 
the car over and the sparkplug was sparking... soooo that one cylender has 
spark.... i didnt actually check the rest but im sure they have spark as 
well.  If they didnt, it would at least sputter a little while cranking 
(that is if the fuel pump was working :)
When i go to check the car out this saturday again i will pop off that line 
on the fuel rail and check for fuel there like you said and try to jumper 
the fuel pump relay as well if i get the info about that.  I should also 
check to see weather the gage cluster reads the correct geer.



>From: Potato! <theforce@invasion.com>
>To: "Jason Arms" <redbug64@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: OT: passat vr6 questions
>Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 00:00:36 -0500
>
>
>the black box under the back seat is the Transmission Control
>Module.....have seen them go bad, but never heard one click......but
>i also haven't had the back seat up while starting a car and
>listening for it either.....even so a problem with that control
>module wouldn't prevent the car from starting.....it usually causes
>problems with erratic shifting/slipping.  Can you shift the gears ok
>while the car is sitting?....does the display on the instrument
>cluster match up with the shifter positions?....there is a wiring
>harness that goes from the main connnector plug on the back of the
>transmission that also runs to the front of the transmisssion and
>plugs into the wiring harness......battery acid sometimes drips down
>onto this harness and corrodes it.   But again, this woulndn't
>prevent it from starting.
>
>when you say that you're sure the car is getting spark, how did you
>test it?....did you ground out a wire onto the head?.......have you
>pulled a wire out?.....there usually is a tool to remove the wire at
>the bottom of the hood prop....it's kind of crappy since it's made of
>plastic, but it works.....most people never use it.....
>
>you could test the fuel pump by removing the rubber feed line from
>the injector rail and letting it go into a bottle.....real easy to
>see if it works or not......much easier than on a cis car.....and
>those pumps aren't cheap.......i'm just guessing but i think that
>even through adirondack it'd be close to 200$.......of if you have an
>inline fuel pressure gauge you could use that on the feed line.....i
>believe that the spec is about 1 bar.....could find out for you later
>on if you want


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