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On 19 May 2003 at 7:59, redyouth@juno.com wrote: > Anyhow, I got my 1970 Squareback, FI, about a month and a half ago, > My friend was borrowing it when it broke down, she had started it, got it > running, then when she went to put her seat belt on her foot slipped off the > accelerator and it stalled...and never started again. You seem to think you have spark. A good way to check that is to take an old spark plug and pull one of the SP connectors off the SP in the engine and connect it to the SP in your hand. Then lay it down somewhere on your engine so that the SP body is against some metal part of the engine. Keep it away from gasoline and any engine wiring. Don't hold it in your hand. ;-) Get someone to crank the engine while you watch the gap in this plug. If you see a spark then you can move on to other things. Other things: DON'T just try replacing things on the speculation that they might be the problem. You are likely to create more problems, muddy the waters, and drive yourself into financial ruin. DO check dwell, timing, valve adjustment. These are standard tune-up things. Learn to do them. You need to learn this anyway, so view this as an opportunity. Sit in the driver's seat and turn the key ON (not to START.) You should hear a relay click and then hear another click about 1 second later. Do you hear both of these? If so, have someone do this while you listen under the front bumper. You should hear the fuel pump run during this ~1 second. Do you hear this? Let us know what you find. You might also want to post your location. There might be someone more knowledgable near you who could help. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org