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<x-charset iso-8859-1> The little fire or 2 tells you alot!... if it occurs without your touching the gas it means that your ignition system is probably OK, you have fuel pressure, trigger contacts are atleast half OK, and that fire is from the gas injected by the cold start injector. If pumping the gas a couple times makes it fire a few more times that means that your main injectors are working OK and your firing from the gas injected as part of the accelerator pump function on the throttle valve switch. Your just not getting injection pulses from the trigger contacts. Check: GROUNDS... wiggle then try the 3 on the breather and the one on the engine case. Make sure the connector to the trigger contacts is good... and the one on the control unit. its remotely possible that there is a thermal intermittant in the control unit but they are pretty darn reliable. My vote: dirty trigger contacts OR a bad rivit connection in them, try another set. > I get the first 2 clicks when I turn the key on. One click and the next 1.5 > secs later. Turn the key, and then I'll get a tiny amount kickover (that > 'little fire or 2" as Keith put it, but the engine stalls. On a second try, > nothing. This is the usual thing. > You engine WILL start when cold at 180... it will start, stall, require feathering the gas but it will start... kinda like starting without a choke. > The 180ohm reading I got was indeed for the HEAD temp sensor. I know, cold > its supposed to be 2500, and when I checked this I had the ohmmeter > connected to the wire that leads to the HEAD temp sensor and to ground. This is unnecessary, unless the car has sat for quite a while and then you WANT to crank it a bit to get the oil pressure up before it fires off. This WILL inject a small amount of gas each time you cycle the key from the CSI. > > I have been in the practice of turn the key on and off a few times to build > fuel pressure before initial startup. If I do this and get a couple tiny > fires and then the engine stalls, it makes no difference if I do it again > after the engine has stalled. > > It happened AGAIN tonight (that's 3 times in 24 hours), and this after I had > let the car rest at least an hour. > > -- > Mike Wodkowski > 72 FI SQBK > Brooklyn > wodkowski@mac.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe > > </x-charset>