RE: Mk1 stalling....HELP!!! (Part 2)

["Aaron Ness" <aaron@makuta.com>]

The prepump didn't come along until the middle of '84, did it?  My '82
doesn't have one...

Aaron
'82 Scirocco
'70 Beetle
'87 Jeep Cherokee 4.0
'81 Honda CX500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Jason
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 1:59 PM
> To: Nate Mellom; Scirocco Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Mk1 stalling....HELP!!! (Part 2)
>
>
> Maybe the prepum in the gas tank ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Mellom <bronson@inwave.com>
> To: Scirocco Mailing List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Date: Friday, December 22, 2000 1:49 PM
> Subject: Mk1 stalling....HELP!!! (Part 2)
>
>
> >
> >Here's the deal...
> >I was bringing the '81 home last night, got her all warmed
> up and was on
> >
> >a back road for appx. 15 minutes.  Stopped at a stop light, turned
> >green, started accelerating, and she stalls.  Pulled over,
> she started,
> >but barely.  She kinda stumbled to the next stop light, and again, it
> >stalled.  Pulled over, got her started back up, and one more
> stop light
> >to go (the busiest intersection of them all).  Again,
> stalled at about
> >3000.  Got pushed to a gas station, and got towed home
> (second time in 2
> >
> >weeks).
> >Here's the deal (while playing with it in the parking lot waiting for
> >the flat-bed):
> >It'll start, but at 3000 rpm, it just shuts down.  When it
> starts back
> >up, it idles REALLY low (200-250), but eventually idles up.
> Even so, if
> >
> >I let it idle or hold revs at about 1500, eventually it will
> just stall
> >again.  What's the deal?  I'm tentatively thinking fuel filter, but I
> >dunno.
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >Nate
> >'81
> >'84
> >
> >Okay, here's the deal.  Last night I replaced the fuel filter
> >(everything checked out, no grungies in there or anything),
> replaced the
> >air filter (with a K&N, of course....the old filter had a
> big stain on
> >it and smelled like gas....), and replaced the plugs (old
> ones were very
> >carbonated, although not too bubbly).  It still did it.  When it was
> >cold, it'd be okay, but when warm it would kill at 3000.
> Which brought
> >me to my next conclusion.  While playing with my mixture
> control unit on
> >the '84 this summer, I'd let it idle and pull up the plate,
> and it did
> >the same thing, dead.  So, I checked the MCU on the '81.  It was all
> >grungy (speckles and what looked like oil all over it), so I wiped it
> >clean and put the boot back on, but it still did it.  I took off the
> >boot again, and again, it was all oily inside.  The inside
> of the boot
> >wa all oily as well.  I checked the throttle plates and everything
> >looked clean.  The boot did have some cracks on it where the
> tube to the
> >intake hooks up, could this be the problem?  And why would
> there be oil
> >coming from the mixture control unit?  Shouldn't that just be air? By
> >the way, the K&N was brand new, no extra oil or anything like that.
> >Help?
> >Nate
> >'81
> >'84
> >Both sick.
> >
> >
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