Re: Here's a weird one.. car troubles.

[SailingFC@aol.com]

Sounds like the knock sensor is going out(or maybe loose?).  I heard of 
someone else having this problem and it was the know sensor.  Check the 
tightness of the sensor.  If you know of someone with the same knock sensor, 
swap with him(her) and see if that makes a difference.  I don't think it's a 
clogged fuel filter because when the injectors shutdown, the engine usually 
misses severely and the engine bucks.  I don't think it's a clogged cat. 
because when a cat. clogs, it's clogged for good.

HTH.

-Dick-
78 Scirocco
Original Owner
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In a message dated 5/31/99 1:28:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
genefulm@turbonet.com writes:

>  Last weekend I drove my 1980 scirocco to Seattle. (a 300 mile drive)
>  Half way there I began to experience a lack of power while driving up a
>  long hill. I had a lot of crap in the car, so it was a fair sized load
>  for the engine. (2 liter techtonics) The power loss at first was keeping
>  me from doing 70mph. It later got to the point where I could hardly go
>  20mph up a hill. (I did eventualy make it to where I was going) The
>  whole drive home I was trying to figure out what could possibly be
>  wrong. I let the car sit over the weekend and then took it to a
>  mechanic. While driving it down to his shop, the power came back, and
>  everything seemed to be working fine again. After a few hours the only
>  thing he found wrong was a cracked injector o-ring, and the car was
>  running great. (well almost great, he really screwed up the timing..
>  rookies..)

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