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I have a fuel leak that I'm puzzled about. The short version of the story is that after examining the car because it wasn't starting easily I noticed that the MPC for the cold start valve was covered with fuel. (I have a '71 Squareback, fuel injected.) I noticed that there was a little fuel around the clamp for the cold start fuel line right above it--feasably the source of the fuel on the MPC but not sure. However, the more serious and important finding was that the injector T-junction on the 1-2 cylinder side was soaked with fuel! I checked the line running to the cold start valve and didn't find any fuel on the outside (I thought perhaps that fuel had run down from a leak up at the valve down to the injectors). I recently (6 months or so) replaced that line (though with a crappy non-braided hose), and it is feasable that I screwed up both connections and that they both started leaking roughly simultaneously. It just seems like too much of a coincidence, though. Does anyone have any ideas as to other things that could be causing this? Thanks in advance! Here's some more data: after an ill-fated trip to Vegas during which my generator died, I noticed that the car was very hard starting. It would start, run very briefly, then die. I could eventually get it to run by persistence and giving it a ton of gas. (I am so thankful I didn't stupidly burn up my car.) After it was warmed up it would run well (as well as it was before, anyway). All this makes me think cold start valve, but I dunno... Patrick __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe