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Hi. I'm new to the list, and new to volkswagen. I just bought a '71 squareback and I'm really happy with it. It's automatic, fuel injected with moonroof. When I first bought the car it looked like it had been sitting for a while. It hardly has any rust (arizona car), but all the rubber is fried, and the windshield is cracked. I had to jump start it to drive it home. Since then I've replaced the plugs, plug wires, cap, rotor, distributor, coil, and two fuel injectors. I also went through and soldered all of the crimped or twisted wires, as well as re-tighten all of the connectors, from fuse box to brain to fuel injectors and everything in between. It has a non-stock exhaust on it, and there were a few leaks but I've fixed those. It still has problems though. After reading this mailing list, the article entitled "FI woes" sums up all of my problems. I've managed to get it to run fairly decently by messing with the fuel pressure regulator, but I don't have a gauge and I don't even know which direction raises or lowers fuel pressure (all I have is the haynes manual). It failed emissions by a long shot so now I know it wasn't set correctly. I've since turned the regulator counterclockwise a good amount and it seems to run better. Now it doesn't die when I come to a stop, but when accelerating and it's cold I have to feather the pedal until it warms up, otherwise it loses power shortly after I hit the gas, hence the feathering. Also my # 2 cylinder is really loud for some reason, and I can hear it miss with the fuel pressure regulator set this way, until it warms up then it's fine. I'm kind of at a loss now. I've tuned up everything I can with the tools I have available. I still need to clean the screen in the gas tank, and the fuel pump wasn't even mounted when I got the car. It was just kind of dangling there off of it's hose connections. It seems to be working, but I don't know if it's working well enough. Thanks for any comments. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/