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Re: [T3] The 73 fastback died completely (kinda long)
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<div>I love that feeling when you successfully diagnose and correct a problem, it is satisfying. (haven't had a whole lot of luck with that lately)</div>
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<div>I'll file this away as another thing to check if I get similar symtoms!</div>
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<div>Jeff</div>
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<div>"Otto"</div>
<div>1971 Squareback</div>
<div>FI/AT<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:45 PM, RussW <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russw@classicvw.org";>russw@classicvw.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Well, the 73 fastback with the intermittent cutting out became non-intermittent last night.<br>I was headed to a friends shop to meet up with him to go look at some VW's that were for sale.<br>
Got about 2 miles from his shop, and the fasback started acting up, and finally died completely. Mess around in the engine compartment for a bit, and found that I did have spark, and the injectors did rack when I operated the throttle. I had power to both wires on the ECU, and the pump would run if I turned the key on, and would stay running if I shorted the connector in the engine compartment.<br>
I checked all the wires at the pressure sensor, and still nothing.<br>I had another pressure sensor in the car, so I installed it. The car started. Took off down the road, and about 1/4 mile, it quit again.<br>Called my buddy on the cell phone, and he brought his trailer, and we hauled it to his shop.<br>
Went back this morning with more of the proper tools, and started checking. I had good fuel pressure. The injectors worked when I operated the throttle.<br>Then I decided to try it with the 220 ohm resistor out of the head sensor lead. Bingo, it started up and ran. I got to looking at the resistor. A couple weeks ago, I had encased it in shrink tubing. With the shrink tubing over the female connector, it would not plug into the harness properly. I trimmed the shrink tubing back with my pocket knife, got it plugged in properly, and it fired right up.<br>
But I had forgotten my cell phone, and wasn't about to drive it home without a cell phone with me. I drove the green car home, got the wife and the SUV with the tow rope, and went back after it. It purred all the way home with no hiccups.<br>
I have my fingers crossed that this has been the problem all along.<br><br>Russ Wolfe <a href="mailto:russw@classicvw.org"; target="_blank">russw@classicvw.org</a><br><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
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