Re: starting up

[stans4@ix.netcom.com (Stan Schaefer)]

There's a number of things that can affect starting, poor adjustment
on the throttle position switch(not sure if a '72 has 4 contacts or
5), air leakage from any  or all of the hoses and seals, misadjusted
auxilary air regulator, messed-with pressure sensor, a bad temp sensor
on the head.  Could be any or a combination of these.  As a start,
check your seals and hoses, replace cracked and hard ones.  If the
throttle position switch doesn't have the "closed" contatcts closed at
idle, it's telling the control unit that you've got your foot on the
throttle, messes up starting.  Follow the Bentley manual to check out
your '72 switch.

On your heater tube problem, which one are you refering to, the heater
box to body one, the cold air one to the thermostat from the fan
elbow, or one of the pieces off the fan housing?  Or maybe you're
refering to the heater box itself?  If it's the heater box to body
one, I've used spiral wound flex exhaust tubing with an ID of 2 3/8".
Galvanized probably availble from your local auto parts place,
Stainless available from J.C. Whitney.  You have to cut to length and
snake it in there, it's stiff.  Other pieces are available from
wrecks, have never seen NOS parts.

Sure it's burning oil and not leaking it(like out the front crank
seal)?

Fumes can be bad hatch seal, leaky heater box or ?

On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 12:59:54 -0800, you wrote:

>I have a 72' squareback(fuel injected).  I'm having a lot of problems
>getting it started.  It acts the same way a car does when it needs to be
>warmed up in the winter. However, it never really warms up. It's turning
>over no problem, staying started is where my headache begins.  
> Also I'm looking for a heater tube...any suggestions, is this a part I
>can order from somewhere?  There is a VW parts store in phoenix where
>I've been told I can get it, however I fear it won't make it to
>Phoenix(175miles).   One more problem(I swear it's the last one)  The
>car has just started to burn oil pretty bad. No leaks as far as I can
>see. It's not coming out as smoke through the back either.  And we do
>often get high from some mysterious fumes the car produces.  HELP!
>  stacey mackowiak