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On 3 Nov 2003 at 20:26, Keith Park wrote: > Ya know.... in 20 years of T3 driving Ive never had a problem with a hot > start... I think he has a problem, if it were vapor lock or something > characteristic of our FI Id think I would have had an issue with it at some > time. It's probably just the fruits of my sinful life that I seem to have run into this a number of times. I always start by replacing all the hoses anyway, but this doesn't always fix the problem. I've even tried replacing the injectors, thinking that the little valves in there might not be sealing as well as they did when they were new, but on that one car it didn't help, much. My 72 was the worst, and that's the car I broke down and installed the pushbutton on. The pushbutton cured the problem, but I still felt that it was a bit of a cop- out since I agree with Keith that it probably hadn't been that way when new. OTOH, the pushbutton solution cost me less than $1 and about an hour of time, while I could have tried just replacing everything that the fuel touches, which would have cost hundreds of $ and hours of time. I've even installed the pushbutton on a Porsche 914, but that was a LOT harder because the FP relay is in the engine compartment. The end result was just as successful, however. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org