Re: [T3] Car Stalls

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 2 Oct 2001, at 23:35, Mike and Barry wrote:

> Hello. Haven't had to write in a while because she's been running
> good. But of course another problem has snuck up that I'm just lost.
> My FI '71 Squaerback is stalling out randomly when I'm driving. It
> stalls and will crank for a second then cut off. Repeating this for
> about 5 minutes then returning to normal. Sometimes if I keep the idle
> high or reving engine I can keep it from cutting off.

I don't think this is a tune-up problem. Do you ever hear the fuel 
pump relay under the dash click when this happens? Do you have 
a voltmeter.  I'd start checking the resistance thru the trigger points 
in the bottom half of the distributor.

You might also want to clip the voltmeter to the fuel pump relay 
output and watch that voltage and make sure that it is staying high 
when you have this trouble.

Is there any chance that your fuel overflow hose is broken? If so, 
and you have driven the car in the rain lately, then your gas tank 
may be full of water.

-
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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