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Busy busy busy... But the car's been running well, that is until yesterday at 2 am. Yesterday was a warm muggy day, as was yesterday night when, after visiting a project Keira was working on at the convention center, we stopped at a diner on the west side of Manhattan. When finished the car didn't start. This is the same as last year. Starter and engine turned over, it just wouldn't spark the fuel. I had this problem last summer. Theory was it might be the head temp sensor. I grounded the head temp sensor at the sensor wire but it made no difference, so I grounded it at the harness part of the the connector (in case I got it wrong) and it made no difference. I had spark, I rechecked the grounds, no matter what I did, no start. So I said lets just wait 15 minutes and watch the hookers. I was reluctant to pull out the VOM meter and get to deep into it what with the audience of hookers and crackheads. You know how it is. The only thing that made a difference was time. After about a total of 40 minutes it started right up. The only idea I have left is vapor lock. But is this possible with FI engines? Either way, what can I do about it? This really only happens in summer weather. I'm reluctant to thing its the trigger contacts because whenever this happens, the car always DOES eventually start up after a period of time. It always happens at the worst possible place and time, doesn't it?.. PS. Today it happened again, in a better place, at a better time, after a short highway drive. I checked the head temp sensor: 180 ohms. And thats a definite 180, the setting was at Rx1, not RX1K OR RX10. I never have a problem starting this engine cold. -- Mike Wodkowski 72 FI SQBK Brooklyn wodkowski@mac.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe