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<x-charset iso-8859-1>On Wednesday 10 October 2001 11:05, Jim Adney wrote: > On 10 Oct 2001, at 7:31, Mike Wodkowski wrote: > > > The relays should all drop out EXACTLY when you turn the key off. > If you ever hear this happen with the ~1 sec delay, then the main > relay is hanging up, something I've never seen, but it might happen. > > There is also the possibility that the relay is wired wrong, so that > the ECU is getting power ALL the time. This would make the power > relay click, but be irrelevant, and you would find that the fuel pump > relay would stay on until !` sec after the engine stopped, which > could happen any time after the key went OFF. Somehow, I think I > have that relay wired correctly, as I had to add those 2 new white > wires to it, remember? > > I'm curious about when you experience this and then turned the > key back ON. Did the engine then run and sound normal, or did > you have to actually restart it? What do you mean by "all the way > ON again"? > > > The generator belt wouldn't cause this, and I don't think a leaky > injector would either. > > The REALLY BIG CLUE here is that you say that the relays did not > click off when you turned the key off, but later, when the engine > finally stopped. This is telling us that the FI stayed on even after > the key was turned off. > > I'm guessing that your main power relay, under the back seat is > sticking occasionally. Russ, have you ever seen this happen? I > haven't. > I ran into this once, and I am trying to remember what the problem was. It was a feed back from somewhere, like the idiot lights or something, were wired wrong. Or maybe the diode in the voltage regulator. As the engine continues to turn over after the key is turned off, the generator is still putting out voltage until the engine stops completely. Try disconnecting the generator field wire when it is doing this, and then see if it still does this. Does it do it everytime you shut the engine off??? You can have a leaky injector, and not affect the gas milage significantly. Try pulling the injectors out of their mounting, and just run the key off and on a few times to build fuel pressure. See if the tip of an of the injectors is wet. Let me think on this some more.. -- Russ Wolfe '71 Fastback AT '66 Fastback MT (IT RUNS) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe </x-charset>