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Have you checked the fuel pressure? I had a similar situation with my 69 fastback after it sat for a while. I cleaned and adjusted the points and increased the fuel pressure to the correct pressure and that took care of it. I guess it could have something to do with the cold start system as well. I am sure others here are much better at this than me but you're situation sounded familiar. Good luck, Mark-69 fastback F.I. -----Original Message----- From: Rhiannon Maple [mailto:luna_ange@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:19 AM To: type3-d@vwtype3.org Subject: [T3] More questions Good morning and thank you again for all of the wonderfull answer for my electrical problem. My dash board still looks like it's thrown up but it's coming a long slowly by surely. My next problem has a possible two part solution. Anyone know of any good Type-3 mechanics in the San Jose, CA area? I was going to one but it took them over a month to perform an engine swap and my car still hasn't run right since. What happened was my 72 FI was in a nasty accident and the body wasn't repairable with out a large amount of money. I found a 71 with a not so great engine and badly mounted dual carbs. So I had the shop pull the FI engine that still ran perfectly fine out of the 72 and install it and the FI system in the 71. Since then it will take me anywhere from 5-20 min to get it to fire. This has drained one battery already and this morning claimed it's second one. It also has been lugging lately like the fuel system is hiccuping when it's cold. The other interesting factor is that the idle has become really choppy where if I'm not feeding it gas it will just die at a light or where ever I happen to be stopped. I have been told that it could be that the fuel system has a clog or some such, or that the head sensor needs to be adjusted. I noticed that Jim mentioned the distributor advance mechanism for the 68 and I was wondering if that would be a good starting point on my 71 (having similar hill issue)? Any help on where to start or look or even whose brain to pick would be much appreciated. Rhiannon 71 SB F/I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~