starting points for jetta problems

[sharpshooter33 at adelphia.net (David Brown)]

Thanks for the offer Rick.  I've got a 8v sitting in my drive way and I was 
going to swap the dizzy cap out a month or so ago and I discovered they are 
different.  One has a little pin sticking up under the caps and the other 
has the holes that the wires slide into.  Which does yours have at the 
dizzy?

I also got some exhaust patch tape.  Gonna fix that nasty hole so I don't 
have a headache all day like today after having my head under the hood!!!

Guess it will all have to wait until my next days off tuesday and wednesday. 
Until then everyone speculation as to what it might be is welcome.

It's back to driving the Gas Hog Blazer for a week. 8-(  and prices are 
looking to be around $3 here this week
I hear it's around $3.75 in CA is that right?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Kellner" <rfkellner@snet.net>
To: "'scirocco scirocco'" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:15 PM
Subject: RE: starting points for jetta problems


> David, I have a set of wires I took off an 8v Scirocco you can have, you
> may not want to keep them on but it may help with trouble shooting the
> problem.
>
> I had a similar, but not as elusive, problem last week with my 91 Jetta.
> I have been cleaning it up a little so I can sell it.  I decided to
> spray out the engine compartment to remove the winter dust.  When it was
> time to move it the car would not start.  I left it in the sun with the
> hood open all day and it final started but was running horribly and
> would not hold any kind of idle.  Since the hood was up and the windows
> were open I could hear this loud arching.  One (or more) of the wires
> was bad and the water only made it worse.  These wires are not that old
> either.  I put a set of new wires on and it runs and idles perfectly,
> well as perfect as 91 Car Rat can run.
> Rick.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Brown [mailto:sharpshooter33@adelphia.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 3:20 PM
> To: scirocco scirocco
> Subject: starting points for jetta problems
>
> Ok, I'm at a loss on this one and I'm just wondering if anyone has a
> start point on testing and figuring out what problem(s) I have.
>
> The 86 Jetta was running fine for 2 weeks.  Then on my way home from
> work....about 10-20miles in the car starts missing real bad.  It has
> smoke coming from some place in the upper exhaust back up into the motor
> area.  I was aware that the exhaust was loud, but with the missing it's
> not emitting smoke, (definite exhaust smoke) back up into the engine
> area.  Smells rich also.  It has a pulsing idle.  rev'ing it up you can
> get it home, but it still is missing even at higher rpm.  I changes the
> plugs, and tested the O2 sensor by unplugging it and still same idle.
>
> I also found that if I put pressure on the Hall plug it would die.  I
> found that the distributor cap was on backward and not locked in
> properly, but it's new and I checked it out moved the plug wires around
> and put it back on properly.  The pressure on the hall unit doesn't
> cause any idle changes now, but I still have the same missing problem.
>
> My thoughts are electrical....coil or some signal problem to the DPR
> that's making the mixture to rich?
>
> Any thoughts on were to start or things to check LMK
> Thanks
>
> David
> 86 16v rocc turbo
> 86 16v rocc front damage waiting on face lift
> 84 8v rocc wolfsburg - organ donor
> 86 8v Jetta GLI - Ungrateful daily driver (maybe)
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