the bloodletting conitnues.

[roccolister@hotmail.com (Craig Williams)]

OMG,

That is (part) of the problem I had for a long time that I couldn't 
diagnose. The final piece to the puzzle for me was to replace the starter. 
My theroy was that my starter (which was 20 years old) got too weak to turn 
over the big fat 2.0 and it's high-compression. It was really hard for the 
starter to turn the motor over at all, and for a long time I just thought it 
was a bad battery. Back to the theory...as the old starter strained to turn 
over the motor, it would draw all the current from the battery and leave 
nothing to make a good spark.

I replaced my starter with one from a turbo deisel car and it spins the heck 
out of the motor now. Never a starting problem since.

So if you are still running your original starter, you may want to upgrade 
it to at least the 2.0 16V starter.

Good Luck -- Craig

>From: Cathy Boyko <losinit@usa.net>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: the bloodletting conitnues.
>Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 19:34:16 -0400
>
>Well, here's the latest "theory" on the car's bad behavior, tell me what 
>you
>think.
>
>A recap of the symptoms- Car is a 2L/ 1.8 head 16V Rocco. The car wouldn't
>start, then we realized it would start but only as you brought the key back
>from the start to the run position, and had it hooked up to booster cables 
>as
>well. The ignition switch had been replaced to correct this problem, but no
>luck. It runs well once it does start, and right about now, I am having
>fantasies about how good it would look in the crusher. I am seriously
>wondering how many more parts it could possibly need. It's ranking just
>slightly above the PT for reliability right now.
>
>Diagnosis - needs a new distributor. Does this sound reasonable? And what 
>is
>the going rate for one of these, new or used, because I'm not too thrilled
>with what I've heard from the dealer so far pricewise. And don't bother 
>with
>the "evils of the dealer" stuff either, it's the only game in town. And I
>don't have the time to go junkyard scrounging at this time of the year. I'm 
>in
>Southern Ontario if anyone has one to part with.
>
>I'd appreciate any feedback on this, is it a common failure? Should I even 
>be
>considering a used one? (If not, the car will stay parked for some time, 
>too
>much money for a new one, I'm still reeling from two sets of tires/wheels/
>quaife/tranny surgery/ timing belt on the bug, etc)
>
>So I wonder what next week's problem will be. I love driving this car, but
>this is getting really tiresome.
>
>I keep telling myself this has to be the end of it, but it never is. I'm 
>just
>really down, not having the car for yet another weekend, this just really
>sucks. And I feel totally stupid and helpless to do anything myself to 
>correct
>the situation. So the car sits waiting to be damaged or stolen at the
>dealership. I really don't know what I have done to deserve this.
>
>On the bright side, at least I don't have the flu this weekend. And the car
>doesn't have a turbo, that would blow up next if it did.
>
>Cathy, again, a happy TDI owner.
>
>
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