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As I mentioned in a couple of previous posts last week, I rebuilt and installed my 71 squareback engine. I still have the flickering oil light problem at low rpm, but based on recent posts (thanks for these responses), I am not so worried about that and right now am focusing on getting it to run decently its idling ok now, but drives quite rough with a lot of what I perceive as "hesitation". The feeling is a little like you would get from a chattery clutch, but not nearly so extreme, I feel a kind of a "jerky" motion, going on constantly while driving along. It seems to feel a bit better during acceleration. The power seems normal to me. The car also occasionally backfires loudly. I realize this is vague, but don't know how else to describe it. The car is FI. It didnt run this way before I removed the engine, which was about 1 1/2 years ago. I changed the gas in the tank. The harness is in pretty marginal shape. The plastic part of the connector to injector 3 is missing and I have just connected the female metal parts to the male injector prongs. But It has always been that way, and ran fine before. I don't think its running rich, as it isnt emitting smoke. One other known problem is that I used the type 1 metal gaskets on the intake manifold-head connection. It is running on all cylinders as determined by listening to variations in idle speed while removing the spark plug wires. The problem reminded me a little of what it ran like with the pressure sensor hose disconnected, but I've checked this and it seems fine, also, it isnt smoking like you'd expect. I have the bentley FI troubleshooting list, but can't seem to narrow down the problem...any insights? Thanks Jim Rustad 71 FI Square Kennewick WA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org