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On 12 Jun 2004 at 11:21, Daniel Baum wrote: > Today, for the first time, I had to reverse up a hill. the car was not > happy about it. A first it hardly wanted to go, and then when I gave it > more gas, it started juddering. On the second attempt it went OK. Russ may be right that this is just an AT R-gear thing, but there are a couple of other possibilities: It's possible that slopes make the carbs richer or leaner. There would normally be some advantage to a carb which richened up when driving uphill, since leaning out coming down would hardly even get noticed. It's possible that you have a slight leak somewhere in the gas line from the fuel tank to the fuel pump. On level ground, or going uphill, such a leak might do nothing or just leak out a bit of gas, but with the tail of the car elevated, there would actually be some suction in that line, which might suck air into it. This might make your situation even worse. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org