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> > I'll have a guess -- water condensed in the exhaust, and you just > blew it out, and it carried sooty crud (been running rich?) with it? That's certainly possible, we've had some rain recently, and the evenings are very damp. > (been running rich?) Yes. I've finally sorted out my carbs, but before that I was running very rich. The whole saga was documented on the Type 34 list, but the upshot was that I had both an airleak through the left-hand rubber balance pipe hose, and a malfunctioning right-hand needle valve. This led to a sequence of more-or-less random symptoms. Sometimes it ran fine, sometimes it seemed to be running very lean (very fast idling) and sometimes very rich (banging at the exhaust, hunting). Once I eliminated those two causes it was like a different car. The instant starting I think is the result of changing the distributor and the points. I still get a bit startled when the engine starts instantly after standing for a week. Thanks, Daniel Baum 1969 Type 34 automatic Email: daniel@type34.info Homepage: http://www.type34.info ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org