Re: the continuing cold start valve saga (solved, I think)

["Brian Honnold" <bhonnold@pac-cap.com>]

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From: Wm. Josiah Erikson <josiah@gsinet.net>
To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Saturday, October 10, 1998 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: the continuing cold start valve saga (solved, I think)


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>So, is this right? :
>1. The cold start valve operates when it gets positive current from one
side
>(terminal 50) and is grounded out by the time thermoswitch on the other
side.
>2. The thermoswitch green/white wire is grounded to the block when cold,
>floating when hot.
>3. The thermoswitch white/red wire is there to activate the electrical
heating
>element in the thermoswitch so that it will heat up and cut off the ground
to
>the cold start valve when you crank the starter too long. This is to keep
the
>engine from flooding.
>
>I think we should write to Bentley and tell them of this mistake. My
Bentley
>has it all wrong, too. Brian, is yours correct? (Mine is old as well- made
in
>'83, it covers '80-'83 Rabbit/Scirocco/Jetta including Pickup Truck,
>Convertible, and GTI). Maybe they already fixed it at some point.

Mine is correct, that's how I figured out the your's and Andre's was wrong.

Now it's time to figure out how to use the cold start valve for enrichment
without activating the starter.

Anyone have an idea????

Brian Honnold
'78 Rocco Ragtop




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