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on 3/6/2003 3:26 PM, William Kunz at satchel18@yahoo.com wrote: > I'll re-check the chokes but I'm pretty confident > they're wound all the way open. How do I check if the > jets were replaced with larger ones? Is it obvious? The main jet is a bit hard to get to without taking the tops of the carbs off, but you can get to the idle jets easily. They are installed on the outside side of the engine, and can be removed with an 8mm spanner. I think they should be g50. Speaking of which, does your car have idle cut-off valves installed (cylindrical looking things screwed into the carbs with a single wire coming off each)? If it does, with the ignition on, but the engine not running, pull the wire off each one in turn, touch the wire back onto the terminal again, it should make a click noise. If one of them don't that will cause your car to die at idle, and either the valve or wiring is bad. > I did adjust the idle recently. I did so because after > the engine was hot it would not idle after I came to a > stop. I adjusted the idle screws and the idle air > screws while taking a reading from a tach/dwell meter > (600?). Could I be way off on the settings? Did you resynchronise them afterward? Ben Doughney '75 1200L '63 1200 - Ringo '71 1600TL '65 1500N - Val http://members.tripod.com/~superkafer/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org