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Jim, I am not sure. I am the buyer. The quoted part below was the seller. I think it was doing this BEFORE he pulled the brain out. It is just a matter of diagnosing what is wrong. The owner is trying to work on it and wanted suggestions from the group on possible solutions. I think I just may pick it up as is and have my trusty mechanic do his thing. He thinks it is a wire disconnected or switched as you said before. Or better yet try it myself, first... I am hoping it is a simple fix! I really want this car! Wish me luck! Lars ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:43 PM Subject: 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. > > - > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* > > ------------------------------------------------ > 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/