Re: Towed from same spot on road twice in one week(long)

["Dave Ewing" <rabbit16v@prodigy.net>]

No offense but I would have suspected spark right away since you discribe it
as stuttering.  Fuel problems rarely stutter, just die.  Anyway, atleast you
will have it solved for little more than the actual initial problem, a new
distributor!!  Hang in there dude I know how it is!!!  ANYONE who has a nice
VW (old or newer--pre 90) has gone through the rain at some time or another
but it looks like the sun is starting to come out for you and dry things
up!!!  Cool that you can vent somewhere eh!?

Dave

> I think this makes everything ......I have officially replaced everything
on
> the car.....After dumping more money at this car than I could have ever
> possibly thought, something else goes wrong.  My car has been running like
> garbage for a couple of weeks, so I chalked it up to the plug wires
getting a
> little old.  They're due for replacement in the spring.  So, I'm driving
the
> other night, get on a 4 lane highway and give it some juice.  The next
thing
> I know, the thing is sputtering at 4,000 RPM.  In second gear, it just
gets
> to 4,000 and sputters a little more harshly and at 5000 the car just dies.
> There is NOWHERE to pull off, so I let it drift almost a 1/2 mile to a
place
> where I can pull over.  The whole time I'm drifting, I'm cranking the car
to
> no avail.  It just seems like I'm getting no fuel whatsoever.  So, I have
it
> towed to my mechanic, he calls me and tells me the car is done, he
replaced
> the fuel pump relay and the car is working just fine.  He leaves the key
in
> it, and at 10 pm I go to get the car.  Mind you, his shop is in the middle
of
> nowhere.  I get in, and the car starts better and runs better than it has
in
> a while.  Great, I think.  So, on the way home I stop to get gas, and I
> notice when I'm pulling out of the station that it's sputtering again.
So, I
> get up to the light where it died before, and I test it out.  4000 RPM and
it
> stutters rather harshly, bucks twice and dies.  Mind you, the tach is
reading
> zero, but the engine is still running, but I have no control over engine
> speed or anything.  I have to let it drift 1/2 mile again, and when I
called
> AAA, they didn't even have to change the description of where I was.  My
> mechanic tells me to bring the fuel pump off of my Rabbit GTI out, because
I
> put a brand new one on before it died a year and a 1/2 ago.  So I lay out
> underneath a Rabbit in the rain and take the pump off, only to discover
after
> we put it on the 'rocco that after priming, it still isn't working.  Works
> when you jump it at the fuse panel, but that's about it.  He then checks
and
> notices that I'm not getting any spark whatsoever.  Pulls the cap off the
> dist. to notice that it's drowning in oil.  OOOPS.  That explains the poor
> running.  So, we think the hall sender is fried, because I didn't know in
a
> 16v that if you have no spark, the fuel pump won't run so you won't flood
the
> cylinders.  Looks like I'll be ordering a new dist. in the morning.  I'm
> getting really sick of drivin g my mothers '97 Neon.....ill handling, no
> steering, non sealing window, automatic piece of shit........
>
>
> 'Patrick
> '87 Scirocco 16v
> '87 Cabriolet
> '84 Rabbit GTI
>
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