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--- Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote: > On 31 Aug 2003 at 19:00, Aaron Clow wrote: > > > Turned the ignition and much to my complete > > astonishment, it started right up (and didn't > > explode)! > > Congratulations! ;-) Thanks!... And thanks to everyone on the list who helped me along the way & offered their congratulations... :) > > 1) My fuel pump is on all the time. > > I trust that you can track this down and fix it > easily. Do you hear a relay > click when you turn the key ON and then another > click about 1 second later? Nope. I only hear the one click when I turn on the ignition, and then I hear the system pressurizing and then I hear the fuel pump humming along all the time. > Injectors that have been out of service for a long > time will always leak, at > least at first. This appears to be due to the > O-rings "drying out" and > shrinking. Often if you just leave them alone with > gasoline in them for a few > days they will seal themselves up. They may not be > bad. I held onto them and put them in my "breakdown" box of things to always carry with me. Oddly enough, the used one that I picked up with a bunch of stuff in a box on Tuesday seems to work just fine, and at least from appearances it looked shot. The manuals say so much about how fragile these things are, but are they really that fragile? The engine doesn't seem to be missing at all... I believe it is running rich, but I imagine I'd hear it if any of the injectors weren't working correctly? ===== -------------------------------------------- 1971 FI AT Squareback http://www.tiserves.com/VW/ vw_variant71@yahoo.com -------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org