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On 2 Nov 2005 at 11:21, Randy Hougham wrote: > Thanks for the ideas. I didn,t replace the points yet but I did clean and > gap them last night. It seems to have good spark. > I just now changed the manifold pressure hose. No Luck. > I just now checked the voltage and it looks to be between 14 and 15 volts. > My volt meter has the needle and the DC scale is small but it holds steady > right at 15 volts. > The problem is only with the left 2 cylinders. Why those 2? It's got to be > something incommon with with them. > 71 Squareback Look on the top center of the engine case. There should be a cluster of FI ground wires. Make sure that all of them are okay. Two of them come from the injectors on each side. The fact that you can still do 80 mph tells us that all cylinders are firing once you get up to speed, so your problem is more subtle than just 2 bad cylinders. I think it would be hard to get up to 80 even on 3 cylinders, plus the engine would feel awful and no one in their right mind would try to push it this hard when it felt this way. Check your advance mechanisms. Maybe you're stuck with full advance which wouldn't work well at idle but would work fine at high speed. How's your gas mileage? -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~