and now for the problem (long)

["Daun Yeagley III" <vwpilot@hotmail.com>]

Storytime everybody!

Last weekend I took a nice little trip from Cincinnati to Dallas in my 
'88 'rocco.  (3 people, tools and overnight bags...   kinda crammed)  
Met Aaron Patton and his wife (Very cool people!) and bought Aaron's '79 
Scirocco.  (Not exactly pretty, but FAST)

So we start for home.  The '79 is running perfectly.  BUT, when we got 
to Memphis, while going around a freeway interchange, the car missed a 
couple times while accelerating. (not hard)  At first I wasn't sure it 
had actually done it as it was so slight.  About a 1/2 hour out of 
Memphis, we stopped for food.  I went to pull out from the light at the 
bottom of the off ramp and the car 'bout died when I hit the 
accelerator.  Pulled into the parking lot, car idled fine.  Rev it, and 
it would miss to about 3k rpm, then be fine.

After dinner, we looked over the car, couldn't find anything obviosly 
wrong...   so off we went.  The thing bucked a bit while getting on the 
freeway, and when it would do so the tach would jump around.  We decided 
not to push on through Tennessee at night and grabbed a motel.  Next 
morning, the car was VERY difficult to start.  Aaron had sent along the 
old cap and wires, so for grins we installed the old cap and the wire 
running from the coil to the distributor.  Turned the key and she ran 
perfect.  So off we went.  It started missing again a short while later, 
but only above about 3k rpm.  We pressed on and made it to Cincinnati 
(Nashville and Louisville were kinda fun since the car would hesitate 
pretty bad below 3k at this point)  Finally about 2 miles from home, the 
car really got bad.  Wouldn't run smooth at any rpm under load, though 
if it was steady above 3k it seemed to run ok.  Made it to the driveway, 
but it won't so much as start now.

My suspicions are in the ignition system somewhere.  It's getting plenty 
of fuel, and it appears to be sparking, but it will barely fire, and 
won't run.  Pulled the plugs, 1 and 2 were great, 3 was black 
(indicating the misfire) and 4 was ok, though tending towards lean. 
(white)

I'm sorry about the long post, but this is driving me nuts!  I want to 
drive the car this weekend!  Suggestions?????

Daun
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