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sounds like your floats arent adjusted right. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [T3] Uphill struggle > 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 > >