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On 20 Dec 99, at 13:07, mark kaylor wrote: > 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! A couple of possibilities: It really WAS in 3rd gear. The ignition stuff was all wet and the engine was missing a lot. See if it is better when things dry out. You have a better chance of drying out if you can get up to speed and really get the engine warmed up. I don't think there's any chance that this engine was too hot. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe