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<x-charset iso-8859-1>Look closely at the fuel filter and check the fuel tank screen for trash. I had VERY similar problems after a fresh rebuild and it was trash in the fuel system that was sporatically clogging the fuel filter. While driving on the incline, you probably could have shifted some trash in the tank. As for the points, hmmm... I'll let an expert answer that. Its been my experience though that a car running lean can burn the points though if there's no fuel to burn in the cylinders. Jason 68 Notch (Nadine) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Micah" <micahra@adelphia.net> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 1:12 PM Subject: [T3] a good old-fashioned mystery problem. > Here's a good one for ya... > > My 68 Square, FI, started doing something wierd.. during a drive from LAX > to my house (25 miles) 4 weeks ago, as I was driving up the hill into the > valley, (fairly good grade) Betty (my car) started to miss a little. As we > got closer to home, it got a bit worse, but not too bad, we got home, I was > thinking it may have had to do with the car being unused that week, in the > lot, as we were in Canada. My boyfriend drove it to work and back (8 miles > each way) without further incident for the next week and a half. THan, I > took Betty for a longer drive to pick up a friend, about 14 miles away from > home. She started missing again, got worse, and ran like crap the whole way > home, missing on accel and maintainance speed, but fine at idle. THe next > day, I picked up new rotor, cap, and points, as I hadn't replaced them in a > year 1/2 and figured it was likely the problem. The old points were so burnt > that a hole had been burned strait through the larger contact! eek! So, I > put in the new points and all was well, performance much better. end of > story, right? NO! > > Yesterday I drove the 60 miles south to visit my mom, and Betty started > lightly hesitating about 35 miles in. Now, traffic was typically crap on the > way down the 5 , a normally 50 minute drive took almost 2 hours, so Betty > was likely pretty warmm.. however, I am pretty annoyed at this point. > > On the way back home, at 11pm, traffic was light, the weather was cool, and > Betty started fine, drove 25 miles until she started to miss, and by the > time I hit mile 45, she was downright obstinate. I hit traffic, stop and go, > she didn't want to accelerate for anything. finally made it home with a > bucking bronco for a car. > > I just took out the 1 1/2 week points out of the car, and they are already > scored on both contacts.... > > Condenser? the condenser is only 1 1/2 years old... > > any thoughts????? > > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ > ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>