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On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 12:17, Hugh Lawrence wrote: > > Perhaps it just needs to be timed. It seems to want to start, but I have > drained the battery down twice now with the help of someone else turning the > distributor and it seems to get real close to starting but never succeeds. > I am confident that things are hooked up the way they are supposed to be and > it still won't start. The distributor gets spark and the wires are fine and > the valves are fine. Could timing really be this complicated? > I doubt if the cold start valve is your problem. Unless it is below about 30 farenheit, the cold start doesn't even function when it is hooked up. I would suspect fuel pressure or timing. Maybe the distributor gear is off one tooth, and you can't turn the dist. far enough. Check the fuel pressure first. 28-32 psi. Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/