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In the cold of our wisconsin winters, I don't drive my square much, but I try to at least keep it drivable so we always have a second car as a backup. A few weeks ago I just started it up to run it a bit and charge the battery. It started easily in spite of being covered by about 8" of snow, but it ran rough and I couldn't get it to even out, even after an extended warmup at medium rpm. At that time I gave up and just decided that it wasn't going to run any better until I got it out on the road and put some actual load on it, but I should have known better. Last tuesday it was "warm" out, probably all the way up to ~30F, so I decided to load it up and take it to the recycling center to get rid of our accumulated holiday recyclables. I ASSUMED it would run better once I got it on the road. Boy was I wrong. It would barely drive, and I actually had to get out and push it across one intersection when it stalled and wouldn't restart. Of course at this point I couldn't get at the engine because the back was full of junk for recycling. Fortunately, it finally agreed to restart and I managed to nurse it the 3 miles to the recycling center, where it died again as soon as I took my foot off the gas. Well, I got the back end unloaded and then got a look at the engine. I had been expecting to find a SP or injector wire disconnected, but the first thing I noticed was that the vacuum hose to the pressure sensor was off. I pushed that back into place and the squareback drove the rest of that day's errands perfectly. Now it's possible that I knocked that hose off myself, the last time I was in there, but I THINK the car ran perfectly several times since the last time I had the engine open. The more I think about it, the more I think a squirrel knocked it off. This has never happened to me before, but I know that squirrels get in there because it's rather amusing when I open the hatch and find walnut remains scattered on the engine. At least this was better than the racoon or groundhog dung John J. had to clean out of Sophy's engine compartment after he first bought her. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~