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On 8 Jul 2003 at 10:25, jason.smith@sarcom.com wrote: > I have within the last 3 months and probably 500 miles done a tune up. But > it has always had a hard time restarting hot, that sputtering until it gets > going. I had only static timed it, but a few weeks ago checked it with a > strobe and it was correct. Any Ideas? Should I just redo the tune up > proceedure? > 71 Square FI AT A 71 FI should not be hard to restart when warm. What is the idle set to? Are the fuel pressure and the charging system voltage right? How's the gas mileage? It's possible that it would be hard to restart if you left it sitting for 20 minutes, but I don't know of any good reason that it should be hard to restart right away unless one of the things above is set wrong. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org