Finally got my 88 16v on the road!!

[vwdaun at yahoo.com (Daun Yeagley)]

--- Eric Marsden <marsden.eric@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1.  When I first start the car up it runs really rough
> and idles very low
> until the temp needle moves a little bit then the idle
> smooths out.  I
> assume this issue is because the warm air deflector and
> all associated parts
> running into the airbox are missing.

Nope - that crap can safely be scrapped.  It sounds like
you've got a bad coolant temp sensor.
 
> 2.  The car seems to have no get up and go in first gear.
>  Put it in second
> gear and it is very very lowgy almost stalling in out in
> some cases.  I at
> this point am attributing majority of that problem to the
> fairly large leak
> I have in the flex pipe.

See problem 1.
 
> 3.  Finally the fuel pump seems to stay on for a while
> after I shut the car
> off.  I wanna say somewhere in the realm of 30-45
> seconds.  For this issue I
> dont know if it is normal or not so I have no possible
> cause.

I'd be checking for hacked wiring or a faulty relay as
that's definately abnormal and not good.


Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
'80 Scirocco                 '81 Scirocco S 16v to be?
'86 Scirocco 8v              '88 Scirocco 16v 
'88 Scirocco Slegato (Gino!) '96 Passat GLX Wagon
'56 Cessna 172
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Ehrlich's Law.

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