Julie's Scirocco day

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

I was taking Claritin, Chlortrimeton and of course drinking lots of beer in an attempt to dehydrate my nose so it would stop running!

A little bit ago I forgot to reattach the vacuum line to the MS and just driving the car around the block was pretty difficult although it ran fine at full throttle!
I imagine either the MS MAP sensor is not getting manifold vacuum signal, either the hose is detached or there is a vacuum leak, or the MAP sensor is damaged or not properly soldered into the board, i.e cold solder joints. The MAP sensors will fail if they get water inside them.
If the problem is intermittent I'd suggest you replace the MAP sensor.
I haven't had any problems with MS reliability but there are a lot of people on the MS forums that will suggest you carry a spare MS for just this sort of issue.
I'm also of the opinion that if you're going to run MS you pretty much need to plan on carrying your laptop with you at all times so you can diagnose the problems if the car isn't running right.

 From: <julie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Chuck Blue" <sukchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <julie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: Julie's Scirocco day
 
 
 > How about all the MSers toss in to get a package of Clairatin for Dan next 
 > year :)
> As for the MS. This has happened 3 times so far. I STILL dont know why it 
> happens, but the MAP pressure is 0 so the MS floods the engine. It had me 
> near tears at Cathys. If I had the 16v FI system from the garage, then it 
> would have been pulled for sure.