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This iiiissss a weird problem ! Your fuel cutting out only uphill veering right. I had a weird one like that once but it happened when I braked too hard. The fuel pump is mounted on a rubber mount assembly to absorb the bouncing shock from the suspension just under the gas tank on the passenger side. As it happens, when I breaked hard the pump would move a little foreward and wiggle the broken ground wire attached to the pump. I checked the wire with a meter, it checked out good , put it back, same problem when driving. I checked the wire one more time by tugging at the wire on both ends and my ground wire stretched like rubber. This meant my wire was broken inside the insulation cover and just wiggling may or may not have found the problem. I replaced the piece of wire and then all was well. This was good until the EFI pump relay under my dash flopped around a month later shorting the pump power and causing all sorts of mayhem when turning suddenly, apparantly I previousely did low quality wiring work to my car. I corrected this by securing the pump properly so it would not just hang and flopp during turns. I shoot my foot often times, but I correct my ways slowly. What you can do is hotwire your pump to the negative and the positive of your car to see if it makes a difference on these uphill veering rights, hook it up to your fuse assembly (find a big 12v hot fuse) or the battery and to ground. The pump has a + and - stamped or casted on it. Drive your car and try to duplicate the problem. If it does not come back check your wires to the pump and the pump relay, you may have broken, shorted or loose wires to the pump and to and/or to and from the relay. The pump was designed to work continuously in these EFI systems to circulate fuel in and out of "our " fuel rails and to cool the pump itself. So don't worry, you won't break anything by performing this test. LEON MARTINEZ martinezl@ftscpac.navy.mil 1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org