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I don't know whether to laugh, cry (which I did incidentally),
be angry or merely scrap the whole car hobby thing but....
I got my car back last week from the mech who got the car
to start. He told me that my cam sprocket had jumped a tooth. How the fuck would
that happen? Fine, I thought. The car was running and I was happy to be driving
a VW. The car was running lean (the mech felt that the Weber TB needed the lean
mixture setup....whatever!). So I decided to adjust the mixture to
approximately 45%. I also decided to advance the timing to 10 degrees. The car
started great and I took her out for a boot around the neighbourhood. I took of
quite heavily at one point, leaving tire marks. However, a coupla blocks later,
the car just died. I popped open the hood, leaned out the mixtire and retarded
the distributor a bit. No start! Well, a friend up the street came by and
noticed that one of the neg. wires off the coil had fallen off. Hence, no start
situation. Reconnect it and still no start. Luckily for me Mark Reda and my
buddy Andrew decided to drop by and help me push the car home (uphill mind
you...) I got it home, reset the timing and
nada.
At the mechs today, he couldn't get it started. He reset the
timing, checked for spark, adjusted the fuel mixture, and installed a jumper
wire. Nothing! I helped him with it so I know for a fact that he couldn't get it
started. WTF? It was running great prior to all of this sheit. I'm at a
loss and I think that the mech is pissed cuz I fucked around with the system
when I had a perfectly well running vehicle. Oops! He says that I may have
something wrong inside the motor. Is this at all possible? Man, I think it's
time for a new hobby. BTW, it's an JH 8V motor and I added an adjustable
cam sprocket will I was at it. Now if the car could only
run................
Sal Guzzo
81 Scirocco S (16V to be - not running)
81 Scirocco (motorless and directionless - not running) 84 Rabbit (now Gti - not running) 84 Scirocco Wolfsburg (running on 2 cylinders; hence not running) 67 Peugeot 404 (not a daily driver; hence also not running) |