Need some help

[sciroccojunky at gmail.com (Lance LaPrarie)]

Found out that the fast clicking sound is my idle stabalizer. I am pretty
sure it isn't supposed to click like that. This is a Motronic ISV to go with
the Motronic conversion. The motor started up like a top before the storm.
Started with the lights off and no arcing and shorting.

Any ideas?


On 12/29/06, levi perkins <subawrxsti@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> i had similar problem in my 89 golf i ran it through a big puddle and it
> just died it ended up being the distributor got wet and was grounding out
> and then a week later i replaced the coil after it died on me
>
> Marc Getty <marc@getty.net> wrote:   Lance LaPrarie wrote:
> > Well.......wouldn't start at all. It's been two weeks and
> > still can't get it to start. Has gas since cranking it over
> > you can smell it. This morning I did notice that after cranking
> > it over there was a series of snaps that sound like a tazer.
> > There is like 5 or 6 in a row. I know there is the buzz from
> > the fuel distributor but that doesn't make a snapping sound.
>
> You have a short somewhere. The tazer sounding snaps are the sound of your
> car shorting. The pertinent question is: "Where is it shorting?" Wait
> until
> it is dark, open the hood, get someone to crank the car for you while you
> look to see where it is shorting. There should be a spark or you can at
> least 'play it by ear' to narrow down where the short is. Explore from
> there. My guess is that it will be near the coil.
>
> I had a problem somewhat in the same realm with my Cali a few months back.
> During or just after rain it would crank but not turn over. You could
> smell
> a little bit of fuel. If you let it dry out it became A-OK. It was the
> ground wire to the coil - it was not grounding very well. Cleaned it off
> ?ber-well and now all is well in any weather.
>
> -Marc
>
> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
> '83 VW Scirocco California Edition
> '84 VW Rabbit GTI Pickup Truck
>
>
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