Re: '81 16v conversion - vaccum problem?

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

i don't have much time but you need to have constant vacuum to the knock
sensor control unit or it won't get the timing right.
Chris DeLong
'80 16V Ragtop
'78 'Rocco
'82 GLI
'65 Bus (ugly, but good for campin')
'61 17 window
'80 'vert
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Novak <toastworks@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 7:58 AM
Subject: '81 16v conversion - vaccum problem?


> This is one territory I haven't really explored. I took the engine from an
> '89 Jetta GLI 16v. I don't have the car's original hood, and the Bentley
> doesn't help me at all on the vaccum routing diagram.
>
> When I took it out of the Jetta, there was a little subsystem starting at
> the throttle body, going through various little valves and some kind of
> condenser (originally residing inside the pass. side fender), and another
> line went back to the fuel tank for something.
>
> Another vaccum line hooked up to the knock sensor brain, the heater
controls
> (?), the instrument cluster, and some other vaccum canister in the
driver's
> side fender.
>
> The car it's going in is a non-california '81 Scirocco 5-spd with no a/c.
>
> I need to know what's important to get this engine running as it may be a
> culprit as to why it *won't* start.
>
> Ugh.
>
> -Dave
> '81 Scirocco 16v
> '89 Jetta GLI (nearly a skeleton... anyone want for free?)
>
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