Horrible running 8v

[SequoiaGLX at twcny.rr.com (SequoiaGLX@twcny.rr.com)]

Mine has been like that but to a lesser extent.  It hunts with the O2 sensor plugged in.  Changing mixture doesn't help.

John K. Gates
--
'97 Jetta GLX - daily driver
'85 Scirocco Flash Silver, waiting for my new house/shop for a complete
teardown/buildup sometime soon...

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Peters <nefarious@drumatix.net>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:53 pm
Subject: Horrible running 8v

> Hello everybody,
> 
>  I'm pretty new to the 'rocco list so excuse me if this is an easy
> question/fix.  First a little background:
> '83 'rocco
> 8v on CIS
> 
> Okay, so the PO disconnected the O2 sensor because the car 
> wouldn't run
> properly with it connected.  So I assumed it was a bad O2 sensor.  
> I know I
> should never assume anything with these cars and I should have 
> guessed that
> a faulty O2 sensor would be too easy.  Anyway, I replaced the O2 
> sensor with
> a nice new one, connected it and fired it up.  Seemed to run fine 
> for the
> first few minutes(maybe till the sensor warmed up) after that the idle
> started to hunt around up and down.  Backed out of the drive way 
> and the car
> would barely go.  It sputtered and stumbled almost to the point of 
> stalling.Nursed it back to the driveway, unplugged the sensore and 
> it started running
> fine again although the idle does seem high (1100rpms).  I'm a 
> complete CIS
> noobie so any and all help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> 
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