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today in pennsylvania the rain came down. all day. lucky for me i had errands to run, and spent much of the day in my square. everything was great. unfortunately for me lancaster has a ton of traffic, i'm talking moving 20 feet then sitting for 5 minutes, 20 feet and another 5 minutes. like this for a few miles until you hit the city. so anyway i'm in this mess, and its raining, and visibility was bad. totally crappy weather. i'm less than 3 miles from my house, but this equates to 15 minutes of start and stop traffic. i'm sitting there waiting for the cars in front of me to start moving, they do, and i push down on the gas and let the clutch out. it felt like i was starting out in 3rd gear, i slammed the gas and my foot was off the clutch but the car barely moved, just crept a little, then stalled. i tried to restart but she would not start! luckily i was a few feet from a store entrance. i pushed her in, let her sit for a bit while i checked out the engine for foul play. after 15 minutes or so i tried starting her up and she started. everything seemed ok. so i went to pull out into traffic again, and as soon as somebody let me out i hit the gas, let the clutch out, and it felt like 3rd gear again!!! it stalled again, it wouldn't start again, so i pushed it back into the parking lot. i got beeped at and flicked off while this was happening, i love people sometimes. so i let her sit for a good half hour, she was a little hot. checked the oil, it was maybe 1/4 of a quart low so i topped her off. i started her up, and was on a quest to make it home. what i did was slammed the gas and got the rpm's up, then let the clutch out. i wasn't gonna let her stall again. so using this method i made it home, although i did notice that the car jerked around a little bit when i was moving forward, pointing to something wrong with my gas line/throttle or something.... anyone have any ideas? i'm stumped....she was running great until this... mark 70 square fi. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/