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Re: [T3] 70 Square FI problem???


On 29 Oct 2002, at 17:24, Larson Dean-Biehl wrote:

> Alright the mechanic looked at it today! Here is what he said. 

> "All the injectors are fine, the problem is all the injectors keep pumping
> gas into the cylinders even when the cylinder is not firing - so they say
> they think (but cannot confirm) it is the computer which controls the
> electronic ignition and that is going to take some time to hunt down a used
> one, which he says is about $200.00.     To a certain degree i don't believe
> them, i believe something was disconnected or hooked up wrong when i was
> farting around in there, because i pulled the computer out thinking it might
> have gotten unplugged, no news from your chat line of someone in my area
> that knows this stuff better?"

Are you saying that this car was running okay and then you pulled the brain 
out and then this is what the current situation is? Do you think that your 
pulling it out actually made things worse, or were things already bad when 
you started working on it?

While it's unlikely that the brain is bad, it is certainly possible, but I've never 
heard of a failure mode where the injectors just ran full time. Doesn't mean 
that it couldn't happen, though.

I doubt if you caused this, but I'm also skeptical about what's really going on 
here. Injectors running full time is one thing, but injectors running over rich is 
quite another symptom, and one for which there are a number or simple, 
common causes.

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