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RE: [T3] fastback engine troubles


On 2 Jan 2002, at 11:26, Mark Fuhriman wrote:

> When you hold the pedal down while trying to start, you're not
> really "giving it gas."  You're opening the air intake, which is a
> good way to help start a flooded FI engine.  So it sounds like you
> might be running rich, even while trying to start.  What do the
> plugs look like? 

On the later FI models, 70-3, pumping the pedal actually DOES 
pump extra gas in (as well as allow extra gas in) but pumping is 
still more likely to confuse things than to solve them.   

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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