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Re: [T3] Wont start again, But I'M starting to hate FI


On 5 Jul 2002, at 1:59, Mike Wodkowski wrote:

> A) how do you open the brain? By prying those little tabs up?

No. There is a plastic cover on one end. You remove the Phillips screw that 
holds the cable clamp, flip the clamp over, and slide the plastic cover out 
past where the clamp used to be. Then reach in the end and pull the plastic 
ECU connector straight out the end of the ECU, with all the wires attached.

> B) I would be interested in getting a working head temp sensor.

I'll put together a "care package" for you this weekend.

> What I find odd is that once I get the engine going again, after even
> another mile drive and turning off the car, I had no problem starting it up
> again. Perhaps there's some sort of mid-range temp that causes the csv to work
> despite that the engine reached a just-too-warm temperature, and when it gets
> just a few degrees hotter, the CSV doesn't go off. This might explain my lousy
> city mileage... Maybe on the first go its working perpetually, then stops on the
> next restart.

This is the hard part about finding intermittent problems: You have to be able 
to look at just the right thing at just the right time in order to find them.

> I'll try disconnecting the CSV in the meantime. At what temps would it be a good
> idea to re-hook it? Will it start properly without it?

It is only supposed to work at temps below something like 10-20F. The 
actual switch point varied with the year. Russ believes that you don't really 
need it at ANY temp, but I prefer to leave them hooked up.

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

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