Re: Help ! My car will not start

[OSTY <lerb@redrose.net>]

Has to be fual or spark.....make sure your wire set is all there and
connected (like to the ditrib) then make sure ya got fuel to the engine.
thats about alll there is.



At 08:28 PM 9/23/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello everyone I ran into a strange problem today.  I'm hoping some of you
>can help me out.  Here's the deal ............ the car in question is a
>1984 Scirocco 8V.  Up to know it's been a good running car, but today
>while I was driving down the road the car just died on me today.  Sort of
>like it ran out of gas, but all at once no sputtering, and I had just put
>in  a 1/2 tank of gas this morning.  The car will trun over and even catch
>some times, but it will not run. Just crank, crank, crank .....then crank
>,crank, crank, catch, crank.
>
>Now i checked the rear fuel pump and it does seem to come on.  I applied
>12V to the ign side of the pump and it spins and sounds as if it is
>pumping gas through.  I didn't check the fuel filter yet, and i can't
>remember the lasttime i changed it. So that is next in line to check.
>
>Aside from that what else can you recommend ?  At this point I'm not
>really sure if it is a fuel problem, but .....  Anyway, It's kind of late
>here (8:22 pm) and I'm not going to be able to get to a parts store
>tonite, but at least i can get a head start on tomorrow.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gene
>
>P.S. If you have any car audio related questions drop me a line and i'll
>try to help.  Also I'm working on an upgrade to the factory door pockets
>designed to incorporate a 5 1/4 or 6 1/2 " driver.  I'll let you all know
>when I get the project completed.
>
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