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> Each wire is numbered. Wire #3 goes to cylinder 1, wire #4 to cylinder 4, > wire #5 to cylinder 2 and wire #5 to cylinder 3. There is a "hot" wire to each injector, but I don't think the number is the same as the cyl #. > Each connector at the injector has 2 leads, one goes to the brain and the > other goes to ground. With a continuity tester, check continuity between the > connector at the brain and the connector at the injector. With a ground > tester, check the ground between the brown wires on the top of the engine > block (righmost and center as you face the engine standing at the rear of > the car) to the other side of the connector at the injector. This is correct. > You may find you either have a broken wire going to the connector to the > brain or a broken ground wire going to the engine. Good advice. > If you have continuity and a good ground, and you are sure that injector #3 > is firing, and you are sure the injector is good, you may indeed have a bad > brain. If you find that injector #3 is "not" firing however, you probably > have a set of dirty or bad trigger points (which was the source of my > particular problem). No, a bad brain would fail to fire both 2 and 3, while a bad set of trigger points will bring the whole engine to a halt, because one point not only triggers its injectors, but also resets the circuitry for the other pair. > BTW, if the brain is bad, you can actually buy them rebuilt from Bosch. If > you get a used one, be sure its for the correct year. Right. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA *******************************